Such beautiful drawings!!! I really loved this graphic novel. I do love to read the original format, but this was a nice change. Definately check it out if you're a Hobbit fan!

I love this world!

I read this comics adaptation a bunch as a reluctant teen reader. As a comic, it is very text-heavy, with almost a paragraph of narration (carefully abridged from the original book) for each panel. It would have been nice to have twice as many pages to make it more readable and to improve the flow, but the reader is lucky to have even this many pages! Each page is masterfully crafted by David Wenzel. His ink and watercolor illustration perfectly brings to life the fantastical subject matter!

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2.5* - okay, the art in this is beautiful and very detailed, itself deserves 5 stars for sure.
But this just couldn't do the original story justice. I get that you can't put all of the original text in a graphic novel, but everything felt soooo rushed and I don't think I would get it all if I haven't read the Hobbit.

Excellent adaptation, with beautiful art that captures Tolkien's fantasy world exceptionally.

And how weird that Chuck Dixon wrote this?

This version of the Hobbit is quite dense for a graphic novel, with a lot of narration. There are some interesting choices in what to include, as goes for any adaptations of prose novels to other mediums, and I probably would have cut some more of the endless descriptions of travels and stretched out some more adventures. But it still overall works.

The Hobbit is highly recommended for fans of all ages.

Also, I am left wondering why there has never been a proper Lord of the Rings comic...

This was such a wonderful way to revisit one of my absolutely favorite books. The art was gorgeous, the story just as captivating and I loved it just as much as I loved the book. Highly recommend for fans of the hobbit!

Booktalk - https://youtu.be/J2AXIxB1T-c

This graphic novel sticks very close to Tolkien's text, even including much of the narration, which is nice, but means it's not really an adaptation, like I was sort of hoping. As it says on the cover, it's "an illustrated edition of the fantasy classic". It took me a little while to get used to the artwork, but I thought lots of it was very well done -- it fits the comic tone of The Hobbit a lot better than Alan Lee's epic artwork, even if I prefer Alan Lee as an artist.

Beautiful illustration, a faithful adaptation

While I was listening to the audiobook format of The Hobbit, I found out about this fantastic graphic novel that tells the story through comic strips. I was aided in visualizing the scenery and the many mythical creature of Middle-Earth through the fantastic artwork. It captured the most important parts of the story, so it was a great accompaniment to the audiobook for me.

È lo Hobbit, quindi non si può essere troppo severi. Tuttavia questa edizione a fumetti non è stata di mio gradimento: disegni di forte contrasto e troppo fiabeschi, specialmente nell’ ultima parte. Lettering che, nell’edizione Italiana, risulta incomprensibile (ancora di più per i bambini). La traduzione è la classica con scelte ormai superate.

I feel like they really wanted this graphic novel to feel like the book exactly, so it was very VERY word heavy, and that wasn't necessary. sometimes, just drawing the scene is enough. I wanted a different way to reread this favorite, and this had some nice moments, but the art style wasn't exactly to my taste and they could've gone easier with the text.