Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Fantasy, Arkenstone, Battle of Five Armies, Invisibility
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar.
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Resolved, effortless, epic and plot-driven.
A children's book with a map at the front, which is all a children's book needs. Read it aloud.
On Open Library, 837 have read it and 3,927 want to.
“In een hol onder de grond woonde een hobbit.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
17 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Provocateurs.
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“Is this J.R.R. Tolkien's best work?”
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“Is the first half stronger than the second?”
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“Is The Hobbit a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.
