Finished reading this aloud to my 7-year-old & 9-year-old for their bookdragon club. At page 50, I wasn’t sure they were going to make it. (I forgot how slowly it starts. Like seriously it takes the 50-page first chapter to get out of the living room, and three pages of it is Thorin just giving this massive 3-page info dump of all info dumps that’s like: “here’s everything that’s happened for the last century.”)

But by the end, this was their favorite book we read all summer. They all had a great time gushing about it at the book club meeting, so it turned out to be an awesome one to end on. (We also watched some clips of both the animated Hobbit movie and the Peter Jackson movies, and they were a little appalled how unfaithful the PJ’s Eagle scene was to the original material, purists that they are. In general, I think it’ll be some time before they’re ready for the Peter Jackson trilogy.)

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So there are officially now 2 more (very hobbit-like) hobbit fans now in the world. Though if they ask me to read LOTR aloud to them, we might have to schedule it over the whole summer.

Thanks for reading!

2 thoughts on “Book Review – The Hobbit”

  2. Cool! I admit that I’ve only seen the first LOTR movie and haven’t read the books. I like the movie, but didn’t get hooked. But, I do want to read The Hobbit, and am even more encouraged to do so by your review :). 🙂

    Great post and review 🙂

    Have a nice rest of the week, my friend! :D.

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