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It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim. Tolkien wrote the story in the early 1930s as a serious piece of fiction but to avoid scorn and derision among his peers said he was writing it to amuse children and in particular his three sons (which, as his own saying goes, contained a grain of truth: he used individual chapters from it as bedtime stories while he wrote them, using his son Christopher in particular as a test audience of sorts). Along the way, he encounters merry elves, ferocious trolls, wicked goblins, giant spiders, and other fantastic characters and creatures before coming face to face with the terrible dragon Smaug himself. It tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a simple, respectable Hobbit who is content with his sleepy life in a small corner of Middle-Earth known as Hobbiton until a crafty old wizard named Gandalf and thirteen dwarves offer him the chance for a grand adventure to slay a dragon and win back a lost treasure in the Lonely Mountain, forcing him to grow out of his comfortable little world. Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour.The precursor to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit or There and Back Again, is a Children's High Fantasy Adventure Novel by J.R.R Tolkien. Plus the Art, Music and Literary References'. 'A Review of Morse Episode, 'Who Killed Harry Field?'. Archived from the original on 12 February 2018.
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Gandalf's singing can be heard on the track Bag End on The Complete Recordings and Bilbo's on Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe It is sung by Gandalf (Ian McKellen) in the opening scene, and also by Bilbo (Ian Holm) as he leaves Bag End.
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A musical version of some sections of this song can be heard in the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, composed by Howard Shore.The song can be heard in the 1981 BBC radio version, sung by Bilbo (John Le Mesurier) to a tune by Stephen Oliver.The melody was later used in the 1980 animated version of The Return of the King and on The Return of the King soundtrack and story LP. While a full song was written for the film and can be heard on the soundtrack and story LP and is titled Roads, it was not heard in the film. A musical version of some sections of this song can be heard in the 1977 animated movie version of The Hobbit.