description: Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, lives a quiet comfortable life, until Gandalf the wizard and a company of dwarves recruit him to go on an adventure to retrieve their treasure that was stollen by Smaug the dragon.
language: English
title: The Hobbit
titlecomplete: The Hobbit
characters: Bilbo Baggins, Oin, Thorin Oakenshield, Gloin, Ori, Elrond Half-elven, Fili, Nori, Dori, Gandalf, Bombur, Gollum, Bifur, Kili, Balin, Dwalin, Bofur, Bard the Bowman, Beorn, Smaug
genres: Fiction, Classics, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Childrens, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Adventure, High Fantasy
ratings_count: 3775746
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