I read this years after reading The Lord of the Rings and having seen the first 2 Hobbit movies. The story is quite light and not nearly as dark as LoTR is but the writing style makes it a pain to read especially for non native english speakers like me. That's unavoidable though considering when the book was written. Overall, I liked the story a lot but the descriptions were at time a bit too detailed for my taste making it a bit dragish, plus the issue with the writing style drops this to 3/5.