Bilbo Baggins is a Hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his Hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive at his doorstep to whisk him away on a journey 'there and back again '. They plot to raid the treasure board of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...
