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I havent got through all of the book yet, but so far its great. I get all of the dwarves mixed up *stupid me* cause its like dwalin,balin,oin,gloin, etc.. and i keep getting them all mixed up cause they are all alike. But anywho, the book's great, and i finally figured out who Tom Bombadil is..everyone was talking about him and im like,...who in the heck is that..But Tom is funny and i like his line "Booby Yerself!" Lol . Any comments?

i haven't read the hobbit in ages..I think it's time for me to read it again wink1

OOh!! Tell me AS SOON AS you've finished, I love Tolkein! Then you have to read LotR, and Harry Potter, and come to our forums and...

*is gagged and bound*

EGADS phoe, how can you mention Harry potter in the same breath as LOTR??

gollum rules!

happily...

Im a gollum/smeagol impersonator. I do the voices.

I did that once and made my friend scream...

That's the book I'm reading right now (I first read it when I was 16) and I love it!!!!!!! This is the book that made me a fan of Bilbo!!! Right now I'm in Chapter 10!!!! Bilbo and Thorin plus the other dwarf excape the wooden elves prison by hidden themselves in the barrels!!!

My favorite part of the book is when Bilbo encounters Gollum in the riddles in the dark!!! I love this book with a passion it is so wonderful!!!!
BILBO ROCKS!!!!....................and Gandalf too of course

I read more today, it keeps gettin better. "Booby Yerself!" I read that Tom Bombadil comment yesterday Lmao its funny.
Yes, when i do the Gollum impressions My friends look at me like im a moron, and my parents just laugh. But when im on yahoo LOTR chat, they love it and say i sound just like him. One of my friends said his mom came in the room when i was talkin on the mic and said that she thought he was talking to andy serkis LMAO.

I read that book in December, my Husband had gotten me it for an early Xmas gift! I had read it back in grade school which was ages ago and I love it again!!!

Yes the part with Gollum and the Riddles. His evilness REALLY shows in the hobbit........ he doesn't hide it.

And also all the dwarves showing up at Bilbo's. The first chapter was the hardest chapter to get through..but once you look back its really quite funny!

Cool. Havent got much farther in the book today :/ might read some more of it tonight though

Is the book " the hobbit " related somehow with the lord of the rings (I mean part of that book) or is completelly different book ?

Yes, well i think its very related to the book..cause its about Bilbo, before the LOTR books came out. And its about his journeys, and him finding the ring.

I finish the book last monday, and I just love it.

The last chapters with the battles between Goblins, Elves, Dwarfs, and The Eagles was just captivating. Bilbo reminded me of Pippin when he said "The eagles are coming".

What made me sad was Bilbo says good bye to Thorin in his deathbed, then Bilbo starts to cry

I suggest that this is a book that everyone that loves literature must read. It was delightful to read this book again. Now more than ever I really would like to see PJ make a hobbit movie. With a little bit of faith and luck he might do it.

Well to tell you the truth, im not a reader atall!! But LOTR books, or anything related to that, it catches my attention, and i LOVE IT.

great book LOTR got a little boring

you remember Bilbo writing a book called "there and back again" or something like that, right?
well, that's The Hobbit

and yes, it's very related to LOTR... remember the eagles at the end of ROTK? well, they also appear in the hobbit

yeah on the tittle page it says "the hobbit or there and back again"

This book keeps gettin better. Im where they are leaving Beorn's and they are venturing off into the woods

Im upto the part where there just about to enter Mirkwood, Gandalph has turned back, but im sure we'll see him again, its quite captivating.

I read LOTR a few year back, so interesting to read about things here that are going to happen. Its very connected to the LOTR.

I have feeling theres going to be a huge battle near the end.
I like the part when Gandalf signal to the Dwarves to come in 2 by 2,
as he is telling beorn his story, and the story on how Golf was invented.

This gong to make a great movie. I do

I liked that part, I finished the book last Friday and loved it and i think im ready to read it again before long.

I've read the Hobbit at least once a year ever since I was seven... Its an excellent book... but I think some of you are a little confused... Tom in The Hobbit is a Troll, and is no relation to Tom Bombadil (the possible Maiar/Valar/Nature Spirit/who knows what) in LOTR... great book though...

Ah the Hobit I think is the first book I fell in love with 20 odd years on I can still read it as if if the first time! (and no its not because I have the memory of goldfish...

;lol

Unfourtunetly everyone should read the Hobbit before the LOTR it is just a great book. Can't explain it truely, can't imagine why its not introduced into the school system.... for children, the make'em read assops fables for heavens sake....

Its in our school. Yes, definatley read it before reading the other triogy books, or watching the movie. Cause just like in the mines of moria i had no idea what the crap was on when Gimli ran up to Balin's tomb.

The Hobbit is an AWSOME book!

when i was little, i was always watching the movie(they made an animated version a few years ago) and i loved it, so when i got older, i read the book

i havent read the book in years but it IS amazing so are LOTR

which version do you have? because tolkein worte two. the orginal one, where gollum was actually kinda nice n then after lotr he realised that gollum needed to be portrayed as more evil and so rewrote his part in the hobbit to make him seem more evil. i think i read the "evil" version, and i expect you are too cuz only the really old copies have the oroginal story.

yeah, i think i read the "evil" version, because the cover looks very new

I'm still reading it, right now i'm on the part were bilbo is in the smauth's den.

the hobbit was the first proper ' book ' i ever read but i havent read it in ages

i read the hobbit in like 6th grade, I think they r making a movie this year

Neato, I had no idea people were still chatting away in my Hobbit book thread!

I used to hate books until I was 12 and my little brother got me The Hobbit for Christmas, and after I read it I was hooked into fantasy books and now because of that book, years later I am adapting works from Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist Tad Williams, and the list goes on and on. All because of the Hobbit

i read the one that harper collins published im on page 31 of lord of the ring:fotr

once again, Curtmister- you are very helpful

Originally posted by Pirate_Girly
I havent got through all of the book yet, but so far its great. I get all of the dwarves mixed up *stupid me* cause its like dwalin,balin,oin,gloin, etc.. and i keep getting them all mixed up cause they are all alike...

Damn Tolkien and his Eddaic-named Dwarves!



Addendum

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, is to be thought of as Bilbo's Memoir. Later, Frodo compiled his story into the same book, and entitled it The Lord of the Rings. Together, (and with some other materials added later), this collection was bound together and called the Red Book of Westmarch, because it came under the possession of one of Samwise's daughters, (who married Peregrin's son), and lived in the West Farthing. Samwise was the person who finished writing the last few chapters of the book. After many happy years, he ventured into the West as had Frodo and the others years before, the last of the Ring-bearers.

that was confusing.

I have just finshed the Hobbit and I found it really good.

this is an amazing story! wayyy better than that sh*tty book called Eragon!!!

The Hobbit is my favorite book and I loved it since I set eyes on it. I picked it randomly as i had to find a book to read in 5th grade...or whatever, but i read it, and that lead to my curiousity to the lord of the rings.

"What, there are three more hobbit books?" I said.

Originally posted by JustOwnin
this is an amazing story! wayyy better than that sh*tty book called Eragon!!!

the hobit is good, but dont rip on eragon, if u want to go to the eragon thread