Adorable story...
Bilbo Baggins has been chosen (quite unexpectedly) to join a company of dwarves and a wizard on a great epic journey to remove a dragon from a mountain filled with gold. This is indeed a very epic journey. Tolkien writes in such a way that he is speaking directly to you as if he were sitting in front of you telling you that his tale from beginning to end. Throughout the journey he breaks the reality of the book and speaks directly to you through his words. Don't get me wrong this is not annoying but rather refreshing. It makes me think of an old, wise sage sitting in a leather high-back chair, smoking his corn cob pipe and telling you this wonderful story with his eyes glistening as if he were just there yesterday. This book surprised me! I was one who watched the three movies before I read the book. So this book came as quite a surprise to me as there are many details in the movies that were made up just for the movies. They simply aren't there in the book. This is probably the very first time I ever get to say that they completely overdid it in the movie rather than under doing it the way they usually do. I personally think that if they would have made the movies a little more toward the book it still would have been an amazing story. But nevertheless, I digress. Note: If you want to know more about the differences between the book and the films you're going to have to look it up on the internet which I'm sure you can find many articles of that nature. I will not discuss them one by one here. Sorry everybody, but but that is indeed a review in and of itself. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Instead of reminding me a lot of the movies it actually reminded me a lot of one of my childhood films which was The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (animated 1979). It had the same presence and feel and it made me love the story even more. Do I even have to say that I would recommend this book? LOL 😉
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