''We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them.“

When Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit from Bag End, is getting ready for tea time he has surprise visitors. Not one, but multiple dwarves, entering his home and plundering his pantry room of food and asking him on an adventure. But hobbits hate adventures, right?

The first time I read the Hobbit, almost twenty years ago, I completely fell in love with this wonderful world Tolkien created. I always wanted to reread the book again and waited for the perfect time to do just that. Well, I thought that Rings of Power was the perfect cause to do so.
This time I read the book with the beautiful drawings by Allan Lee that really contributed to the overall experience. I even listened to the audiobook quite a bit too which blew me away. If you ever doubted to read this book, please give this audiobook, narrated by Andy Serkis (Gollem), a try. The way Serkis told the story was without a doubt the best audiobook performance I ever listened to.
Funny enough this book was quite different than I remembered it. I forgot most of it and as a consequence of that it felt almost like reading a new book. In such a way I could fall in love again with these, sometimes grumpy, hobbits and dwarves. Being it a reread I did however loved finding all these different references and prophecies for the rest of the Lord of the Rings saga.
On the whole I really adored reading this whimsical story again. I took me on an adventure together with Bilbo and his companions filled with goblins, dwarves, elves, wizards eagles and a dragon. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t love an anti hero outsmarting dangerous foes.