description: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
language: English
title: The Hobbit
titlecomplete: The Hobbit
characters: Beorn, Gollum, Gandalf, Ori, Thorin Oakenshield, Fili, Oin, Bofur, Bombur, Kili, Bard the Bowman, Smaug, Elrond Half-elven, Balin, Dori, Bilbo Baggins, Nori, Dwalin, Gloin, Bifur
genres: Classics, Adventure, Fantasy, High Fantasy, Childrens, Epic Fantasy, Young Adult, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 3776681
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: Bbc Book Pub