Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unadventurous life in his hole at Bag End.
That life is upended when the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep and sweep him into a quest to reclaim the dwarves' ancestral home of Erebor, along with its vast treasure, from the dragon Smaug.
Reluctantly signed on as the company's burglar, Bilbo journeys through trollish encounters, goblin tunnels and the gloom of Mirkwood, discovering courage and cunning he never knew he had. Along the way he wins a mysterious ring in a riddle contest deep beneath the Misty Mountains, a small find with consequences far beyond this tale.
Warm, wry and endlessly inventive, Tolkien's classic is both a perfect standalone adventure and the doorway to Middle-earth.
