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The Hobbit: Illustrated by Alan Lee
Alan Lee


First ever illustrated eBook of the classic bestseller featuring more than 60 colour paintings and pencil drawings by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY.Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey �there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.This new eBook edition is illustrated throughout in gorgeous watercolour and delicate pencil by Alan Lee, the Oscar-winning Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson’s films, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN.


















THE HOBBIT


CONTENTS

COVER PAGE (#ue112398d-1f40-5c5d-938f-e0a1b2c82deb)

TITLE PAGE (#u56ef286f-e8aa-5d4b-9859-5e33d161b8a1)

MAPS (#ub509b755-326a-59bf-ae93-81d9102aa9be)

AUTHOR’S NOTE (#u9bb9cb14-d260-5789-942a-3fb41c8f62e7)

CHAPTER I: AN UNEXPECTED PARTY (#u73e04221-5bf1-5230-acdf-4f2a1e8fc4ba)

CHAPTER II: ROAST MUTTON (#u3768e074-eaf0-5698-b622-dfa6bb46ccdb)

CHAPTER III: A SHORT REST (#ub5743a70-4a88-5342-b5aa-cf5e42a353d5)

CHAPTER IV: OVER HILL AND UNDER HILL (#ud34cfb71-c150-5893-be09-45fc7c2bafcf)

CHAPTER V: RIDDLES IN THE DARK (#udec2d0f6-dd0d-50e0-aabe-768cc31fba50)

CHAPTER VI: OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE (#uc0cb1950-36d0-5816-a0df-de3a14a62f60)

CHAPTER VII: QUEER LODGINGS (#ub91685e1-7c77-5899-8d79-5b087b081871)

CHAPTER VIII: FLIES AND SPIDERS (#u11c07f17-f2d3-57e1-8c3a-c5178d5653ee)

CHAPTER IX: BARRELS OUT OF BOND (#u9549f585-adbe-5a72-8353-177ffd141ef0)

CHAPTER X: A WARM WELCOME (#ubc20894b-1a45-5d38-ab45-52952b99ef81)

CHAPTER XI: ON THE DOORSTEP (#u1316319d-45e7-5901-a793-f2caaa346afa)

CHAPTER XII: INSIDE INFORMATION (#ubd3f4152-5de8-5193-9a67-7c3adcde99b5)

CHAPTER XIII: NOT AT HOME (#u0bec2392-d3a0-57c1-8b9d-1a6d66f2d25b)

CHAPTER XIV: FIRE AND WATER (#u866255c5-6941-5b02-bfe6-492edfb23cf5)

CHAPTER XV: THE GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS (#u9bb55e84-f9e9-5e2b-b9b4-34d8d519e0ab)

CHAPTER XVI: A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (#u6add9a85-9cec-5318-a747-99efaf2314b0)

CHAPTER XVII: THE CLOUDS BURST (#uf632c338-861e-5543-8e53-07b21f25f6bb)

CHAPTER XVIII: THE RETURN JOURNEY (#ub1b36daa-3e91-56de-ae94-d8aa588d187c)

CHAPTER XIX: THE LAST STAGE (#u4a55dac1-c3f1-50e6-9208-eab80940db4d)

WORKS BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN (#u5ca1b8f2-da5e-5172-b80d-8ab903605b7e)

COPYRIGHT (#ua2d95899-c7af-5731-acb3-6e630973702a)

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (#ucf37b4ce-9bc8-5d56-bb9a-cccaf00fea30)















Author's Note (#ulink_15b8dfe2-ff7f-567f-8253-fa5348f33059)







This is a story of long ago. At that time the languages and letters were quite different from ours of today. English is used to represent the languages. But two points may be noted. (1) In English the only correct plural of dwarf is dwarfs, and the adjective is dwarfish. In this story dwarves and dwarvish are used*, but only when speaking of the ancient people to whom Thorin Oakenshield and his companions belonged. (2) Orc is not an English word. It occurs in one or two places but is usually translated goblin (or hobgoblin for the larger kinds). Orc is the hobbits’ form of the name given at that time to these creatures, and it is not connected at all with our orc, ork, applied to sea-animals of dolphin-kind.

Runes were old letters originally used for cutting or scratching on wood, stone, or metal, and so were thin and angular. At the time of this tale only the Dwarves made regular use of them, especially for private or secret records. Their runes are in this book represented by English runes, which are known now to few people. If the runes on Thror’s Map are compared with the transcriptions into modern letters† (#ulink_cb7b4976-d423-58b3-8b91-87bd69098e19) †, the alphabet, adapted to modern English, can be discovered and the above runic title also read. On the Map all the normal runes are found, except


for X. I and U are used for J and V. There was no rune for Q (use CW); nor for Z (the dwarf-rune


may be used if required). It will be found, however, that some single runes stand for two modern letters: th, ng, ee; other runes of the same kind (


ea and


st) were also sometimes used. The secret door was marked D


. From the side a hand pointed to this, and under it was written:






The last two runes are the initials of Thror and Thrain. The moon-runes read by Elrond were:






On the Map the compass points are marked in runes, with East at the top, as usual in dwarf-maps, and so read clockwise: E(ast), S(outh), W(est), N(orth).




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