The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Hobbit

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrator: Andy Serkis

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/21/2020


Synopsis

This brand-new unabridged audio book of J.R.R. Tolkiens beloved The Hobbit will be coming to listeners everywhere this September, read by the BAFTA award-winning actor, director and author, Andy Serkis. 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 a 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 influential books of the twentieth century. Listen to The Hobbit audiobook read by Andy Serkis on any computer, phone, or tablet.

Author Bio

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892.1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.

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