Image: Alan Lee's depiction of the last of the party of Dwarves arriving at Bag End
I'm reading The Hobbit to my kids, because in a month's time, it will be a completely different experience. Although it'll be a while before they can watch the film, the pictures in my own mind, conjured up from Tolkien's phrases, will be subsumed by Peter Jackson's vision. Before long, in our imaginations, all…