Many letters have shapes also found in the historical futhorc runes ( used in The Hobbit ), but their sound values are dissimilar.

It was also available on some non-IBM compatible machines such as Motorola 68k-based Apollo ( 68020 ) and Amiga 3000 ( 68030 ) workstations, the short-lived AT & T Hobbit and later PowerPC based BeBox.

Specific plot elements and features in The Hobbit that show similarities to Beowulf include the title thief as Bilbo is called by Gollum and later also by Smaug, the underground path into the mountain, and Smaug's personality which leads to the destruction of Lake-town.

Patrick Curry notes that animism is also found in Tolkien's other works, and mentions the " roots of mountains " and " feet of trees " in The Hobbit as a linguistic shifting in level from the inanimate to animate.

Commentators such as Paul Kocher, John D. Rateliff and C. W. Sullivan encourage readers to treat the works separately, both because The Hobbit was conceived, published, and received independently of the later work, and also to prevent the reader from having false expectations of tone and style dashed.

In addition to providing the illustrations for her own Moomin books, Jansson also illustrated Swedish translations of classics such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( some used later in Finnish translations as well ).

For the forthcoming film The Hobbit, also directed by Jackson, the young Bilbo is portrayed by Martin Freeman while Ian Holm will reprise his role as an older Bilbo.

In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins stopped off at Rivendell with the dwarves on the way to the Lonely Mountain and also on the way back to the Shire with Gandalf.

Tolkien also makes reference to Giants in The Hobbit.

These names are also translations of the original Westron Kuduk ( Hobbit ) and Rohirric kûd-dûkan ( hole dweller ).

It is implied at one point that the " moon-letters " featured in The Hobbit were also composed of ithildin.

In fact Tolkien's The Hobbit ( 1937 ) features an incredible number of similarities beyond those mere aspects above, for instance, the two swords Orcrist and Glamdring correspond to the story, as well, Bilbo's Mithril shirt also stands in for the chain mail shirt of gold.

The title is derived from the subtitle of The Hobbit, by Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien ; the title also appears in the film Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King.

Gríma Wormtongue is also a rogue, as are the thugs hired by Saruman who raided the Hobbit Shire.

The ending of the ' true ' Hobbit name Bilbo was also changed: in Westron it was Bilba, but Tolkien changed this to-o because-a is usually a female ending in English, whereas it was a male ending in Westron.

2941, was also the reason that Gandalf was unable to accompany Bilbo Baggins and the dwarves on a portion of their trip to the Lonely Mountain, in The Hobbit.

The Orcs also work independently as the common antagonists in The Hobbit, though in that work they are more often called Goblins.

Tolkien also wrote the following note, appearing in some editions of The Hobbit:

There is also some fictional ' background ' information of those poems, linking them to the Hobbit folklore and literature as well as their actual writers ( some of them were written by Samwise Gamgee ).

Since then, he has filmed several other Jackson-directed films, including King Kong and The Lovely Bones, and will also film the upcoming The Hobbit films directed by Jackson.

Decipher also have the rights to The Hobbit novel but have not yet released any cards based on it.

Howe also re-illustrated the maps of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion in 1996 – 2003.

Tolkien also said the original version of the Red Book contained the story of Bilbo's journey from the first edition of the Hobbit.

The term Quest of Erebor can also refer to the quest told in The Hobbit.

However, in the same section Tolkien also addresses hobbit ( which was certainly created first and translated afterward, as described in Tolkien's own comment on the initial writing of The Hobbit ) and Brandywine ( an obvious English pun on the Elvish Baranduin, ' justified ' as translation of a similarly alcoholic pun in Westron ).

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1937 ) is seminal, predating the lecture On Fairy-Stories by the same author by a few years.

Probably the most famous user of proverbs in novels is J. R. R. Tolkien in his The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series.

In Portugal, it's called " azeda " ( sour ), and is usually chewed raw, just like Bilbo Baggins did on the second from last line on page 87 of the Hobbit 50th anniversary edition.

* 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

While The Hobbit is written in a simple, friendly language, each of its characters has a unique voice.

This idea of a superficial contrast between characters ' individual linguistic style, tone and sphere of interest, leading to an understanding of the deeper unity between the ancient and modern, is a recurring theme in The Hobbit.

While The Hobbit has been adapted and elaborated upon in many ways, its sequel The Lord of the Rings is often claimed to be its greatest legacy.

As one of several books that have been recommended for 11 – 14 year old boys to encourage literacy in that demographic, The Hobbit is promoted as " the original and still the best fantasy ever written.

Gandalf () is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

The name is taken from the same source as all the other Dwarf names ( save Balin ) in The Hobbit: the " Catalogue of Dwarves " in the Völuspá.

Throughout the early drafts, and through to the first edition of The Hobbit Bladorthin / Gandalf is described as being a " little old man ", distinct from a dwarf, but not of the full human stature that would later be described in The Lord of the Rings.

Smaug is a fictional character in the novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and the main antagonist within the story.

Hobbits first appeared in the novel The Hobbit, in which the main protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is the titular hobbit.

While The Hobbit introduced this comfortable race to the world, it is only in writing The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien developed details of their history and wider society.

However the word " Hobbit " is a trademark owned by the Tolkien estate.

" Stealing like a Hobbit " is the name of a parody song, by Luke Sienkowski, that was most requested in 2003 on the Dr. Demento Show.

" The Bard's Song-The Hobbit " is a song by the Power metal band Blind Guardian, featured in their 1992 album Somewhere Far Beyond which is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

He is the protagonist and titular character of The Hobbit and a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings.

In Tolkien's narrative conceit, in which all the writings of Middle-earth are translations from the fictitious volume of The Red Book of Westmarch, Bilbo is the author of The Hobbit and translator of various " works from the elvish ", as mentioned in the end of The Return of the King.

The Hobbit relates how Bilbo Baggins, in comfortable middle age at 50 years old, is hired in spite of himself as a " burglar " by the wizard Gandalf and 13 dwarves led by their king Thorin Oakenshield on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug.