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The Hobbit is just about the only thing I can tolerate when it comes to fantasy. It doesn't jam you with a ton of worldbuilding shit on the first page. Rather, it introduces small a small bit to you slowly while still showing you familiar things like green grasses, green trees, a family tree, and small homes.

>>21931002
>“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
Hell, the first chapter alone makes the reader want to read the whole book.
>“By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that nearly reached down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) – Gandalf came by. All that the unsuspecting Bilbo saw that morning was an old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which his long white beard hung down below his waist, and immense black boots. “Good Morning!” said Bilbo. And he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat."
It's a masterful use of language and also subtle intrigue. It doesn't tell you outright who Gandalf or Bilbo are, where are they, or what a hobbit is, yet the writing assumes you know all this and you want to keep reading to find out. It's mysterious and comfy all at once.

>>21458616
Bilbo. He's literally me.

>>21428656
I've only read one and it was The Hobbit. I literally don't read much.

>>21402428
>“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
>“By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that nearly reached down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) – Gandalf came by. All that the unsuspecting Bilbo saw that morning was an old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which his long white beard hung down below his waist, and immense black boots. “Good Morning!” said Bilbo. And he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat."
Something about the first chapter just makes me want to read more (practically the entire book), and I'm not sure what.

>>21373461
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Was The Hobbit, now The Lord of the Rings

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