Even as we're reveling in new adventures in Middle Earth, today's Sci-Fi 5 marks the anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit, the book that first took readers there and introduced them to the bravest little Hobbit of them all.

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Written by Shane Vaughn

Hosted by Jessica Lynn Verdi

Music by Devin Curry