The Hobbit

Wow, this book took me absolutely forever to read but it was really worth it!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Tolkien is a master at his story telling, and I really enjoyed how it was written as if the story was being actually told to you by him. I loved the characters, and really loved watching Bilbo grow as a character and into his more Tookish side!
Although I would have liked a little more lore in this book. Maybe that was deliberate, and there will be more world lore in the Lotr series. Another thing that I was slightly disappointed in was how fast the ending was. The battle sequence was very vague to me, and felt like a second hand account rather than if it was told through Bilbo's point of view. It honestly took a while for the fact Thorin had died to settle in. I had to reread the paragraph over and over to really let it hit me.
That being said I still think that Tolkien did a wonderful job at making a character's actions come back around in the end.
Really loved this book, and I can't wait to continue!