Frodo the hobbit and a band of warriors from the different kingdoms set out to destroy the Ring of Power before the evil Sauron grasps control.

In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J. R. R. Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece “The Hobbit” includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself. The Hobbit was first published on September 21,1937. Like its sequel, “The Lord of the Rings”, it is a story that "grew in the telling," and many characters and plot threads in...