Reviews

Хоббит, или Туда и обратно by Chuck Dixon

Only show reviews with written explanations

readerturnedwriter's review against another edition

4.0

Loved it! I don't read a ton of graphic novels, but I want to read more and this is one that a friend read recently. I really enjoyed the experience.

The artwork was beautiful. The scenery and backgrounds were the best part, for me, they were gorgeous and really captured the epic world Tolkien wrote about. The characters reminded me of a cartoon of the Hobbit I used to watch as a child, so that nostalgia was also fun. The story was, of necessity, simplified, but I thought they did a great job with how they did that as well. Overall, I'd highly recommend to any Tolkien fans or anyone wanting to read Tolkien but without as big of a commitment.

amy_harboredinpages's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Whimsical illustrations. Glad to have this in my Tolkien collection.

kimmyjane96's review against another edition

Go to review page

3.0

I want to start off by saying that I haven’t read The Hobbit as a book but I have seen the films (I enjoy the first two but dislike the third). I went into this knowing that the films aren’t like the books and with that expected the Graphic novel version would be closer to the book, as this came before the films.

I loved the art in this; I found it beautiful and really endearing and I loved the colours that were used. I enjoyed the fact that some of the characters were generally more likeable and had better relationships with each other and I did like the grand adventure aspect. That being said, I wouldn’t say I loved reading this as a whole, I found myself multiple times while reading wondering how long I had left to go and being very aware of how much I had left to read. Some parts didn’t flow as well as I would have liked (multiple times I found myself looking at the wrong panel/ speech bubble next and so the order didn’t make sense) and sometimes it wasn’t 100% clear what had happened. The characters weren’t as fleshed out as I was hoping and the majority of the time I forgot that there were a large number of dwarves because they weren’t mentioned.

Now, I don’t know if the issues I have would be solved if I read the actual book as you can’t transfer everything from a book to a graphic adaptation as there just isn’t enough space to write it all. I am glad I gave this a go, and I will eventually get around to reading the full book however I think this was an ok first step and I can see the appeal if you don’t want something as in depth. (I say this is less in depth as I don’t know how true the text in the graphic version is to the full book but just based on page numbers, you would have to assume that there’s a bit missing in terms of detail)