The Hobbit (Movie Tie-In 2014) (Paperback)

The Hobbit (Movie Tie-In 2014) (Paperback)Now a major motion picture. A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a

His alter-ego Billy Batson is a streetwise 14-year-old who can magically transform into the adult superhero Shazam simply by shouting out one word

Both are driven by their sense of duty

as all evidence points to suicide

in the same year as the national poll that would crown them Hollywood's King and Queen

in Dean's vessel

the first Hollywood film to confront anti-Semitism

attached boot covers and gauntlets

greedy corporate investors and over-zealous scientists

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decadence and decay

a beautiful widow with a sickly young son (Moore)

And it's a chance to see Davis shine in a programmer the year before her breakthrough performance in Of Human Bondage