How long does it take to read The Hobbit?
Charles Dixon, Sean Deming, J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by Charles Dixon, Sean Deming, J. R. R. Tolkien takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1990. 144 pages, about 39,600 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…
Subjects: Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Comic books, strips, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction, Gandalf (fictitious character), fiction
