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        The Hobbit


        setting

        Middle Earth

        time

        Timeless

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1937

        page count

        310

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

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