This definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as a foreword by Christopher Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and uncomplicated life, rarely traveling further than the pantry in his hobbit hole at Bag End. His contentment is shattered one day when the Wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves unexpectedly appear on his doorstep to whisk him away on an unforeseen adventure. Their plan is to steal the treasure of Smaug the Great, a huge and very dangerous dragon. "The Hobbit" is the prelude to "The Lord of the Rings" and has sold countless millions of copies since its first publication in 1937, establishing it as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century. Intertaal offers this book with a guarantee of fast delivery.