Authors: J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Lee (Illustrator), Douglas A. Anderson
ISBN-13: 9780618002221, ISBN-10: 0618002227
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: None
It seems an unlikely formula for success: an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon, and a book that begins with a little man who lives in a hole in the ground. But The Hobbit, followed by The Lord of the Rings, created the modern genre of heroic fantasy and made J.R.R. Tolkien one of the most widely-read authors in the world.
The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio.
In the ancient world of Middle-earth-a place of elves and dwarves, orcs and wizards, the darkest evil and the brightest good-a hobbit named Frodo Baggins embarks on a perilous quest: to carry the One Ring, ruler of all the Rings of Power, into the shadowy land of Mordor and destroy it in the fires where it was forged.
One of the very few works of genius in recent literature.