The Hobbit- Introduction

Our family arrived in India in 2011. We moved into an apartment and began experiencing a new country, a new culture, a new language and a new way of doing everyday tasks.

As a family we started reading The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. I had read that book about seven years earlier and vaguely remembered some of the storyline and chronology of the book that unfolds something like this: Bilbo finds the ring, logs lots of miles, there’s a dragon that’s killed by a guy from a small town, and Bilbo ends up back home in his hobbit hole.

As we read the book, however, Bilbo and his tale struck a chord that resonated deep in my psyche, so I read The Hobbit again and decided to record my thoughts for each chapter. A majority of these musings pertain to my experience living cross-culturally in India. I would like to share these musings with others, so you are welcome to come along with me on my journey. It won’t be the most exciting of tales, but it will be all about the trek there and back, and that is an adventure worth sharing.