Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit

The Hobbit is one of the most widely read and best-loved books of the 20th century. Now Corey Olsen takes listeners deep within the text to uncover its secrets and delights. Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is a fun thoughtful and insightful companion volume designed to bring a thorough and original new reading of this great work to a general audience. Professor Olsen takes listeners on an in-depth journey through The Hobbit chapter by chapter revealing the stories within the story: the dark desires of dwarves and the sublime laughter of elves the nature of evil and its hopelessness the mystery of divine providence and human choice and most of all the transformation within the life of Bilbo Baggins. Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is a book that will make The Hobbit come alive for you as never before.