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A review by oldtobegin
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
5.0
Here are some things I had forgotten about The Hobbit:
- How light and fast it is, particularly compared to the Lord of the Rings; the action seems to zip by. Like, that part with the flies and spiders is only about ten pages? My childhood remembers it as lasting FOREVER and being HORRIFYING when actually it is short and just a bit exciting.
- The entire sections with Beorn, the dwarves imprisonment with the elves in Mirkwood, and Bard of Laketown (though I remembered the town itself).
- Smaug talks!
- Thorin, Kili, and Fili all die!
- The Arkenstone.
- How very little is really said about the ring - I know he went back and edited some of the Hobbit to match up with what he was beginning to say about the ring/Gandalf/Bilbo in the Lord of the Rings but there's only one mention of the Ring being a Ring of Power and what that means is not explained at all.
It's a better book than I remembered and also much shorter! Worth the reread.
- How light and fast it is, particularly compared to the Lord of the Rings; the action seems to zip by. Like, that part with the flies and spiders is only about ten pages? My childhood remembers it as lasting FOREVER and being HORRIFYING when actually it is short and just a bit exciting.
- The entire sections with Beorn, the dwarves imprisonment with the elves in Mirkwood, and Bard of Laketown (though I remembered the town itself).
- Smaug talks!
- Thorin, Kili, and Fili all die!
- The Arkenstone.
- How very little is really said about the ring - I know he went back and edited some of the Hobbit to match up with what he was beginning to say about the ring/Gandalf/Bilbo in the Lord of the Rings but there's only one mention of the Ring being a Ring of Power and what that means is not explained at all.
It's a better book than I remembered and also much shorter! Worth the reread.