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The HobbitBy J. R. R. TolkienThe story begins with a sm completely fellow by the anticipate of Bilbo Baggins The Hobbit he lives is in his house and doing what hobbits do during the day. The first few chapters tell you what a hobbit is and what a hobbit looks like and also what his home looks like. Hobbits are smaller so dwarves and eat much more then dwarves do, hobbits eat six meals a day.Bilbo is cleaning his house and preparing for a meal when an old friend of his comes past his approach and starts to chat with Bilbo about all his adventures he has been on. After a while of conversationing in Bilbos hobbit home he tricks poor Mr. Baggins into join a expedition with Thirteen dwarves to revive their lost city that was over ran by Smuag, a mysterious dragon that was used for delivering messages from dwarves and elves. To continue with the story after the talk with his friend, who is a wizard. Gandalf invites himself over again and ask to bring some friends, and Bilbo, a polite and well-mannered hobbit could not say no. The next morning the bell shape rings and Bilbo happily opens the door, but in his shock it is not Gandalf but it is a group of dwarves twelve dwarves in hoods. As he invites them in they all introduce themselves and at the end of their introduction the last words are at your service, their names are Balin, Dwalin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur, and last but not least(prenominal) Thorin Okensheild these were the last of their kind. They were the cities last hope of bringing back the city. That night the dwarves stayed at Bilbos house with extra bedrooms. And the next morning they would start the real journey to their destiny.That morning Bilbo got up late and was left with dishes from his company and was the only one to clean them up. After washing the dishes he sat down to have a smoke with his pipe and was disturbed again, but it was Gandalf telling him that they are staying at the town inn. As he ru shed to meet them he made it theyre just in time and they started discussing the syllabus (for Bilbo was their burglar and his job was to find the entrance to the secret door on the mountain where Smuag lay asleep) after the plan was discussed they set out on their journey to revive the lost city.