Adaptations of The Hobbit

The first authorised adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit was a stage production by St. Margaret's School, Edinburgh in March 1953.

[1] Subsequently, The Hobbit has been adapted for a variety of media including stage, screen, radio, board games and video games.

Several of these adaptations have received critical recognition of their own, including a video game that won the Golden Joystick Award, a scenario of a war game that won an Origins Award, and an animated picture nominated for a Hugo Award.

The Hobbit has been the subject of several games of various kinds.

Several computer and video games, both licensed and unlicensed, have been based on the story.

Cover of the cassette edition of Nicol Williamson's dramatization of The Hobbit featuring Tolkien's illustration Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raftelves
Gollum in The Hobbit comic adaptation (1989). Art by David Wenzel