Read the classic edition of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth. Featuring more than 60 colour paintings & 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, & a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there & back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large & 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 & influential books of the twentieth century. It is now available in a smart new package, & is illustrated throughout in gorgeous watercolour & delicate pencil by Alan Lee, Conceptual Artist for Peter Jackson's films, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY & THE HOBBIT: THERE & BACK AGAIN.