The Best Audio Reading of the Hobbit

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The Hobbit is a archetype in its ain right, as well as being an introduction to Middle-earth. You will larn more about the nature of Hobbits and dwarves, wizards and elves, you will understand more about Gollum and why Bilbo'south meeting with him was so important to the events of LOTR.
Nearly chiefly, you volition become to savor an incredibly good book. I'k jealous at the thought of you experiencing information technology for the first fourth dimension!
I beginning read The Hobbit nearly xl years ago when I was 8 and take read it dozens of times since, the terminal time just a couple of months ago. Each time it'south like a visit from an old friend, and I nevertheless find fiddling things that I hadn't noticed, or had forgotten.
Information technology's a relatively quick, and definitely rewarding, read. Exercise it, Nelle: y'all know information technology makes sense :-D
Not only is The Hobbit fun, but the difference and similarity between it and its sequel help one understand both Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings better.
I know I'g dragging on hither, just a good example of this is found in the character of Gollum. Tolkien's Gollum in The Hobbit was very different in the outset edition, and Tolkien inverse his motives and graphic symbol dramatically for the second edition afterwards he began writing The Lord of the Rings. If y'all can find a re-create of that scene (the affiliate 'Riddles in the Dark') from the starting time edition, I would encourage it. I once heard a Tolkien-scholar depict him while writing every bit 'flying blind': his ideas were so multitudinous and complex that he wasn't sure how to turn them into commercial fiction.
AND (ha ha!! lamentable for taking so much space) if y'all want to empathize The Hobbit a little better, read the novella Roverandom, a children's story about a toy dog his son had lost at the embankment. The Hobbit, I call up, is a very good median between the experience and aim of Roverandom, which was done essentially for the Hell of it (to be glib), and the very serious feel of The Lord of the Rings, by which time Tolkien realised that people wanted to meet and hear more than of his invented mythology and his vast fictional world.
OK, I'm done. Have fun with it!






Why, you little....! ;-)

Why, you 50..."
At least you didn't slap me. ;)



The finding the band is non really a major upshot in "The Hobbit" it'southward a subplot or something. Other than that it depends on the readers age. Equally others have explained hither.

I would agree that it doesn't actually matter which you read outset, but if you haven't read either information technology'due south just kind of logical to start with the earlier of the two. Plus LoTR contains some "spoilers" for The Hobbit if you haven't read that already.
Suffice to say, you'll likely relish them both regardless of the order you read them in.



Definitely read the Hobbit get-go though.




I exercise concur.

In the end though, information technology doesn't actually thing that much.




I recommend reading it before The Lord of the Rings.





Having read the books in this haphazard lodge, I highly recommend readers to start with The Hobbit. As others accept mentioned, it's the most reader-friendly of the Heart-Earth books and volition gear up the storyline for "Rings" for you. If you read Rings first, you lot'll miss some of the references to The Hobbit and lose some of the impact of the cyclic nature of the tales.



I take to give you kudos on reading The Silmarillion first and getting through it then continuing on to LOTR and The Hobbit. I thoroughly enjoyed The Silmarillion, but having already read the other books and loved them, helped my in navigating my way through The Silmarillion tremendously. It'due south a not bad volume, but I would never advise that someone new to Tolkien read information technology before getting comfortable with his world and mode.
That said, The Hobbit is really the all-time place to start. Information technology eases the reader in to Middle Globe in a fun fashion and gives a lot of good groundwork to prepare the reader for LOTR.

I agree, Stefan. The Silmarillion is my best favorite book, simply I wouldn't dare recommend anyone to start their education of Tolkien with it. Aside from the sheer size of the book, its contents would scare abroad most readers who aren't familiar with mythic tales. The Hobbit, on the other hand, is the perfect way to familiarize oneself with Middle World. In fact, if the new movie lives upwardly to its billing (and I have no reason to retrieve information technology won't), I'd recommend movie goers to offset in that location before watching The Lord of Rings too.





My hubby went directly to LOTR and he only doesn`t take the same honey for Bilbo every bit I accept.
I read The Hobbit as a teenager and went straight to LOTR. I`ve been re-reading every couple of years since.
I likewise dear Roverandom, information technology is pure Tolkien, enchanting and very sugariness.


Enjoy! It'south pretty awesome.

Enjoy! It'due south pretty awesome."
And the book is much amend than the movie in my opinion.
Namarie, God bless, Anne Marie :)




So, what I can tell you is this: Should you read information technology before The Lord of the Rings? It depends. For me, it has been better this way, reading it later on, because I couldn't take been able to appreciated it and it could take put me off Tolkien altogether. And so, knowing what you at present know well-nigh them and about how dissimilar they are from each other, yous tin make a choice based on your tastes.
(I promise I didn't explain myself too poorly, English is not my beginning language!)

You did great, Eleanora - if you hadn't said so, I wouldn't fifty-fifty take known English was not your outset. :)
I read The Hobbit later LOTR as well and enjoyed information technology in that order besides.
Namarie, God bless, Anne Marie :)
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