num_pages: 353
description: Alternate cover editions for this edition can be found here and here.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 be asleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance... Whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in his hobbit-hole in Bag End by Gandalf the wizard and a company 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
titlecomplete: The Hobbit
characters: Bard the Bowman, Gloin, Ori, Beorn, Bofur, Bombur, Bilbo Baggins, Dori, Nori, Kili, Elrond Half-elven, Balin, Thorin Oakenshield, Gollum, Fili, Smaug, Oin, Gandalf, Dwalin, Bifur
genres: High Fantasy, Childrens, Novels, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Epic Fantasy
ratings_count: 3775654
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: Harper Collins