The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again

Unbeknown to Bilbo Baggins, a quiet comfort- -loving Hobbit from the Shire, many adventures »zere about to befall him. He, the wizard Gan- dalf, and a company of dwarves were to set out on a dangerous quest to reclaim stolen treasure from the lair of a dragpn and thus fulfil the prophecies of the old songs.

The Hobbit recounts the adventures of Bilbo and hiS .cempanions•-- the; meeting with Gollum, keeper of the Ring; the rescues from the wild Wargs and the fierce goblins aethé foot Gf the Misty Mountains; the encounter with the giant spiders in the labyrinths of Mirkwood; the rid- dling of the dragon Smaug; and the Battle of Five Armies.

This is the only authorized Canadian paperback edition of The Hobbit, an enchanting tale by J. R.R. Tolkien and prelude to his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings.