Outside Reading Book Review

Thomas Spring
Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. Ballantine Publishing Group, 1966 Genre: Fiction

The Hobbit is a thrilling adventurous story, that starts off when a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is sitting outside his doorstep smoking a pipe. Then a wizard named Gandalf showed up and asked Bilbo if he wanted to go on an adventure. He asked Bilbo because one of his ancestors was a famous conqueror. Bilbo was not anything like his ancestor though, so after he is basically forced into going he wonders if he can rise to the challenge.
“ The enchanting prelude To the Lord of the Rings.” the review reads. This made me want to read the book because I new that the Lord of the Rings was such a good movie that I thought the book must be too.
Tolkien made sure that in the beginning of the book the reader knew that he was a simple hobbit that enjoyed reading a good book by the fire and sipping some tea, but that was before Bilbo set out on the dangerous adventure to try to reclaim the treasure that was taken from Thorin’s grandfather by Smaug the dragon. In the early state of the book Bilbo is very bad at his job the burglar ( which is supposed to be sneaky and steal from others to help his group) and almost gets the group killed. The book the Hobbit remind me of the Eragon, because they are both adventure stories.
"I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself." - Gandalf pg. 19
The story The Hobbit was an extremely good book. I can relate to the book because just like Bilbo I had a particular lifestyle but it got changed and I enjoyed the change. This is the same as Bilbo because he originally started off being the kind of person that would just like to read a book or drink tea, but as the book went on he became more adventurous and heroic and he enjoyed that. Tolkien has affected me because now that I have read this book, I really liked it so I am going to try to read more books by this author. What I liked about this story is that it was very adventurous, and action packed.