[ahartmetz]

Frankly I thought even the book was terrible. The book was basically many pages of boring landscape description, then our heroes get into a VERY VERY BAD IMPOSSIBLE PICKLE, then A MIRACLE HAPPENS OUT OF NOWHERE. Repeat five times, the end.

[bergie]

But the Tove Jansson illustrations make it all worthwhile. Adorable.

https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/

[musicale]

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."