The point of The Hobbit wasn't defeating Smaug, it was the adventure along the w...

pretoriusB · on Dec 19, 2012

What adventure? Leaving one place and going to another, with so ho-hum episodes in between?

bjustin · on Dec 19, 2012

The title for The Hobbit (the book) is "The Hobbit or There and Back Again"[1]. It is about the journey.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Hobbit-There-Back-Again/dp/0618150... or see the end of Return of the King where Frodo adds the "Lord of the Rings" title under Bilbo's title.