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 Illustrated by David Wenzel
Adapted by Charles Dixon with Sean Deming

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Ballantine Books • New York

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 J.R.R. Tolkien

An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic

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 2012 Del Rey Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 1989, 1990, 2006 by Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien

Illustrations copyright © 1989, 1990, 2006 by David Wenzel
Story adaptation copyright © 1989, 1990 by Charles Dixon and Sean Deming

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House
Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a

trademark of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in different form in the United States in three volumes by Eclipse Books in August
1989, April 1990, and August 1990 and subsequently as one volume in the United Kingdom by Unwin
Paperbacks in 1990 and by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of
Random House, Inc., in 2001. A revised edition of this work was published in the United Kingdom by
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers in 2006.

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien first published by George Allen & Unwin 1937.
Second edition 1951; Third edition 1966; Fourth edition 1978; Reset edition 1995.
Copyright © The J.R.R. Tolkien Copyright Trust 1937, 1951, 1966, 1978, 2006.

® and “Tolkien” ® are registered trademarks of the J.R.R. Tolkien Estate Limited.

ISBN 978-0-345-44560-5

This edition was entirely hand lettered by Bill Pearson. Hobbit logo by Steve Vance.
Revised edition designed by Terence Caven.
Production by Anna Mitchelmore.

Printed in the United States of America

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