The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien is about the adventure of Bilbo Baggins, someone that genuinely should have a distaste in adventures. Here's my personal opinion on the story.
In all honesty, I can see why this story would be popular for little kids. It's a lot of adventure and action and make-believe things, so many younger audiences would be interested in this type of genre. The thing is, little kids can't read The Hobbit so just watch the movie instead. Unpopular opinion but this book was pretty boring to me. The action didn't really hold my attention and some things felt dragged out in order to hold suspense but it didn't have a good impression on me.
I had no attachment to any of the characters, so it was hard to empathize and be anxious for them. I don't care about Bilbo or Thorin or the other dwarves, not Gandalf or the enemies, etc. If I had to stretch, I like Beorn. He was pretty cool.
One chapter was extremely annoying to me and it was when Gollum and Bilbo wanted to have an intellectual conversation about riddles that I could care less for because that part could have been shortened at least 10-15 pages but no, you had to make it longer in order to make the movie have a better time stamp. A lot of scenes in this book are like this actually. It would have been so much better shortening the book and maybe it would have been a lot better.
That's about it for now. The Hobbit is a hit or miss.
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