This was a delightful listen on the way to Durango and back, but I'm not really sure why it seemed so important in 1968. Maybe that will come when I reread or listen to the Trilogy as well. Was it Bilbo's growth--the newfound confidence and competence when pressed to it--that he found greatness of soul. And yet he was also such an everyman, preferring the ordinariness and the orderliness and the familiarity of his home life. And while luck and magic certainly played such a large part of his success, he was also able to discover and parlay his own talents into a heroic adventure. It's the classic hero's journey a la Joseph Campbell. And maybe that's what I needed to hear on my own quest for adventure and greatness at age 19.
Author: Tolkien, J. R. R.
Date Published: 1937
Length: 11hr 4min
Narrator: Inglis, Rob
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