Which Tolkien work is subtitled There and Back Again?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is subtitled There and Back Again.

The subtitle reflects Bilbo Baggins’s journey from his home in Hobbiton to the Lonely Mountain and back again. Bilbo begins as a reluctant participant in Thorin Oakenshield’s quest, but the adventure changes his understanding of courage, loyalty, danger, and the wider world beyond the Shire.

There and Back Again also gives the story a memoir-like frame. Bilbo is presented as the author of the account within the fiction, and the subtitle emphasizes both travel and return rather than conquest alone.

The book was first published in 1937, before Tolkien expanded its connection to the darker history of the One Ring. Its tone is generally lighter than The Lord of the Rings, although later revisions strengthened links between the two works, especially around Bilbo’s discovery of the Ring.