The Hobbit

This book is drafted with the heaviest use of magic and has given a new maturity to the inhabitants of Middle Earth, taking the classical children’s fairy tales and turning the lives of these characters into a copy of ours. There are the good old hobbits; carefree and untroubled like our elder citizens. There are the magic-savvy fairy people, just like the younger adults of our generation. The last and special creature of our M.E. Citizen analysis is the dwarves, JUST like our parents, grumpy and disapproving, also angry and at times caring.

The plot surrounds a party of dwarves and one wizard (Gandalf) led by Thorin Oakenshield, the heir to the throne under the Lonely Mountain. Bilbo Baggins is of course, the burglar who must help the dwarves recover their lost city and gold from Smaug, the evil dragon.

In it is Bilbo’s encounters with mysterious monsters and mythical creatures and his discovery of ‘Precious’. The book is filled with elegant poems that really help change your opinion of 20th-century writing.