You don’t always know what will happen next even if you’ve read the book.  The game allows you to buy items with money you collect.  You can also collect crystals which boost your skills as you progress in the game.  This is the same as Bilbo becoming a more confident person in the book as the group faces more challenges.

The game has lots of extra quests and tasks which gain you more experience and help you advance further into the game. Between each level there are little videos which fill in the areas that are in the book which have been left out of the game.

The graphics are good and are cartoon-like in appearance, but are suitable for the game’s younger audience. The sound is clear and realistic, but more sounds could have been added to enhance the game.

I think it is a good game, especially for younger children (7 – 12 years) because it is simple to play and is enjoyable, with nothing too scary.

The hobbit hole had a nice rounded door that lead from a loverly well-tended garden, inside to polished wooden floors and smoothpainted walls covered with nice pictures. There was nice, comfortable furniture to sit in by a warm cheery fire. The kitchen is the heart of any of any hobbit-hole. The pantrys were full and there would always be freshly bakes cooling on the table. Visitors were always welcome to this pleasant hole.

Hobbits themselves are short, even shorter than a dwarf. They dress in bright friendly colours such as yellows and greens. They have bright red cheeks, friendly smiles and a well fed body. They have tough hairy feet and would never even think of using shoes. They are simple folk, not going on adventure or having battles. They are content to farm the land and laze on a nice summers day.

The hobbit that lived in this particular hole at the end of Bag End road on top of the hill was a well to do hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. He was wealthy and held in high regard because he never did anything unexpected.

I love a sport mad country, 

A land of Barbeques, 

Of rusty Holden Utes, 

Of A.F.L and cricket too, 

I love those great games, 

I love her many pubs, 

Her beaches and her forests, 

This warming land for me. 

The hot sauce covered pies, 

All tasty to the belly, 

The brown tanned skin, 

The story of Ned Kelly, 

Grey bustle of the city, 

Where busy bodies work, 

And buildings block sky, 

And rubbish the harsh street. 

Core of my heart, my country! 

Her smog clouded sky, 

When sick at heart around us, 

We watch the water go- 

But then the governments gather, 

And we can hear again, 

The yelling of some children, 

As the caucus meet. 

Core of my heart, my country! 

Land of American gold, 

For war, support and power, 

She pays us back threefold, 

Over the many cities, 

Watch, after many years, 

The filthy lust for money, 

That thickens as we laze. 

I hate green day!!