num_pages: 315
description: Bilbo Baggins is a reasonably typical hobbit: fond of sleeping, eating, drinking, parties and presents. However, it is his destiny to travel to the dwarflands in the east, to help slay the dragon Smaug. His quest takes him through enchanted forests, spiders' lairs, and under the Misty Mountains, where he comes across the vile Gollum, and tricks him out of his 'Precious' - a ring that makes its bearer invisible, and wields a terrible power of its own.
language: English
title: The Hobbit
titlecomplete: The Hobbit
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: 3776041
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: Houghton Mifflin Company