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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Start date
November 25, 2012
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December 25, 2012
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Why we're reading this
Because The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is being released December 14, and because if the world does en…more

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Laura
May 09, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: english, hero-s-journey, fantasy, seminal-texts, canon
What is there left to say about The Hobbit? 25 years since I read it last, and there are bits I know like I read them last year. Smeagol. Smaug. The Ring. The Spiders in the Trees. The me-alienating lack of women. And there are bits of which I have no recollection. The man we meet an instant before he draws back the bow and kills the dragon. Beorn the bear. The cognitive dissonance of having the wolves be the bad guys. All these scenes of exclusion and essentialism Terry Pratchett gently, loving ...more
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