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The adventure, "There and Back Again", takes Bilbo, Gandalf, and the Dwarves through various locales as they meet up with sundry persons and peoples. The Hobbit is, indeed, a children's story. Yet it is so packed with plot, dialogue and history that adults cannot help but to be drawn into it. Many aspects of the adventure are based on Scandanavian mythology. Mirkwood forest is borrowed from Icelandic mythology. (Mirk means "border") The names of the Dwarves are borrowed from Norse place-names. Even the form of the story has the quality of the saga about it.In the end, it is the story of the average person, a person who loves his creature comforts, and yet is stirred to do great things by the forces of destiny and his own indomitable will.
ISBN 00482300707 - Unwin softback well-binded, clean pages, reasonable condition covers have light wear and inscription to it, 279 pages.