 Now this is my favorite work of fiction and I've read lots of books but this is my favorite and I think this book would be great for kids starting at the age of about 10 or maybe even a little earlier you could read parts of this book to them. What I'm doing in this video is I want to show you two popular versions of the book so that you might be trying to decide between this one and this one. I originally bought this and then I bought this later. Now this book is very pretty nice. It contains many illustrations by the author and the illustrations are either in color or black and white but as you can see there aren't a whole lot but it's very good and it's nice knowing that the author drew these and signed them. It has maps. The book itself feels good as all the interesting maps here. This actually has a cover on it. I purchased this one on eBay. It's a used book but they sold it to me in mint condition though. It certainly looks like it's been read before. Why I don't recommend this book? This is the first copy I got. It has fallen apart. Now I didn't play with this book. It is just falling apart. I'm still glad to have this. It's very nice but I'll show you why I prefer this. Now this book cost me $22 I think on Amazon Prime. Somehow I got a discount on it. I don't know how but this is a very fine book. It weighs much more than this book. This is pretty lightweight book. It's nice. It's pretty. You can read it. I don't have any problem reading this book but this is a lot better. Now you can see the size is not that much difference but this one is lighter. This is very heavy book. It's printed on thick paper. There is a lot of spacing. The print is bigger and the illustrations are on every page. This is a magnificent book in my mind. This is illustrated by someone who is not the author but you can see that this book has lots of special things. I love the illustrations. They look to me just like the characters in this book. Now I've been reading this book every day for a couple of years now so I know it pretty well. I read this book for relaxation purposes. I will read a little bit of it. It takes me away. I like this book. I love reading the descriptions. It's a marvelous book in that the author of the book obviously loved the English language and it's just very satisfying book for me to read but you see the illustrations on every page. Now even though this is a picture book this is not really a book that you would think little kids would be picking up and reading. They are expecting you to be reading to the kids parts that you think that they need to read here and obviously some parts of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings can get a little intense for little kids. At least I think so. There's only one curse word that I have seen in the entire three books of the Lord of Rings and the Hobbit and he says hell I think one of the trolls says the word hell at some point. But the things that happen in this book there's a lots of killing of people and it can get pretty gory. Well I won't say gory but the things that happen are well it's exciting. It's like wars going on. But you can see there are illustrations on every page. This is amazing book. So why would you buy this one? I don't know. I mean it's nice to see the drawings and the color illustrations of Tolkien but this one is much more enjoyable. Much more. I love that it's on the thick nice. This is kind of paper they used to print the World Book Encyclopedia on years ago. I mean this is really nice nice paper. Now just to show you same book. This one has 372 pages. This one has 297. There are lots of illustrations in here. So for my money I would buy this one. If you want to buy this one just to see the illustrations or have a second copy that's great too. Maybe you can find it on eBay. I purchased this on eBay for $10.99 which included shipping and that was a good deal. But for a new copy of this and I would recommend you get a new one because you'll really enjoy and love the book. This is the one right here. Bilbo Baggins. And this would be my second choice. This is nice too. This is a nice book too. There are lots of things about this book that are nice. It's just that for the same money the other one will give you a little better service I think and would be a more of a joy to read. So thanks for watching the video.