"Hobbits are very small people, smaller than dwarfs but much larger than Lilliputians. The hero of this tale was a well-to-do hobbit who somehow found himself, accompanied by wizard and dwarfs, off on a mad journey over the edge of the wilds to wrest from Smaug the dragon his hoard of long-forgotten gold. A swift-moving, imaginative tale for both boys and girls." Huntting