Hobbit, The, Tolkien J.R.R.

A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings."Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaugs left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance..."Whisked away from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...