title: The Annotated Hobbit:  The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again
author:  J. R. R. Tolkien 
description: The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again
zlib_text: The Hobbit
  
  The Hobbit
  The Hobbit
  In this reprint several minor inaccuracies, most of them noted by readers, have been corrected. For example, the text on pages 32 and
  62 now corresponds exactly with the runes on Thror's Map. More important is the matter of Chapter Five. There the true story of the ending
  of the Riddle Game, as it was eventually revealed (under pressure) by Bilbo to Gandalf, is now given according to the Red Book, in place
  of the version Bilbo first gave to his friends, and actually set down in his diary. This departure from truth on the part of a most honest hobbit
  was a portent of great significance. It does not, however, concern the present story, and those who in this edition make their first
  acquaintance with hobbit-lore need not troupe about it. Its explanation lies in the history of the Ring, as it was set out in the chronicles of
  the Red Book of Westmarch, and is now told in The Lord of the Rings.
   
  A final note may be added, on a point raised by several studen