The Annotated Hobbit

The Annotated Hobbit:
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Front dust jacket of the first edition
AuthorJ. R. R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson
GenreLiterary analysis
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, Unwin Hyman, HarperCollins
Publication date
1988
Media typePrint
AwardsMythopoeic Scholarship Award
ISBN978-0-395-47690-1
LC ClassPR6039.O32 H6

The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit with a commentary by Douglas A. Anderson. It was first published in 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first American publication of The Hobbit, and by Unwin Hyman of London.