Anticipating The Hobbit

I have read The Hobbit before, but it was in middle school. I'm pretty sure that I read it for an AR test in sixth grade. I remember liking the story, but I don't remember it having that much of an impact on me. Also around the same time was when the Lord of the Rings movies started coming out. My parents are huge Tolkien fans, and they told me that if I read the books then I could see the movies. Since the movies came out in the early 2000s, I have seen them a number of times. So I would say I am more familiar with that trilogy than the story that started the whole journey. I actually do not remember a lot of the Hobbit so I am excited to read it again. Bilbo and Gollum were always two of my favorite Tolkien characters, besides Merry, Pippin and Aragorn of course.