J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is often introduced as a children’s adventure story, but that label barely contains it. Beneath its apparently simple quest narrative lies a finely wrought meditation on courage, appetite, greed, home, and the moral education of an untested self. The author’s genius is to begin with comfort and ordinariness, then slowly expose … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
