num_pages: 12
description: Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure. Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance! Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves. Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...
language: English
title: The Hobbit: Complete and Unabridged
titlecomplete: The Hobbit: Complete and Unabridged
characters: Bard the Bowman, Bofur, Dwalin, Smaug, Gloin, Gandalf, Ori, Gollum, Bifur, Dori, Kili, Thorin Oakenshield, Balin, Beorn, Nori, Bilbo Baggins, Fili, Bombur, Elrond Half-elven, Oin
genres: High Fantasy, Young Adult, Classics, Childrens, Adventure, Novels, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 3776165
places: Middle-earth
series: The Lord of the Rings
awards: name: Keith Barker Millennium Book Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award
category: Inklings Studies
publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd