Crystal J. (dorolerium) reviewed on + 212 more book reviews
Its been a little more than a decade since I last read The Hobbit, I know that I read it before the LotR movies came out, but that was quite some time ago! With The Hobbit coming out in December, or at least the first one, I wanted to refresh my memory of the book that started it all. One of the things I love most about reading The Hobbit is that you have no idea the significance of anything. This was written as a childrens story, and is presented as such.
Reading it after reading LotR, you look at things a little differently. For example, I adore that Gimli is the son of Gloin, who is on this journey, but has a reasonably small part in the adventure. It would have been so easy for Tolkien to make Gimli the son of someone like Balin, or even Thorin somehow, but I love that he picked a lesser part dwarf. And Legolas is the son of the Elvenking of Mirkwood, but that is also not mentioned at all in The Hobbit.
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Reading it after reading LotR, you look at things a little differently. For example, I adore that Gimli is the son of Gloin, who is on this journey, but has a reasonably small part in the adventure. It would have been so easy for Tolkien to make Gimli the son of someone like Balin, or even Thorin somehow, but I love that he picked a lesser part dwarf. And Legolas is the son of the Elvenking of Mirkwood, but that is also not mentioned at all in The Hobbit.
To read the rest of my review, please visit my blog.
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