The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set within Tolkien’s fictional universe and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit.

This lesson is based on Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit and explores the beginning of the story. Students will analyse the content and structure of the text as a class before answering comprehension questions and complete a drawing task using description from the text.