Resumen:
This work, entitled The Fantasy Genre in The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien, aims to analyze the characteristics of the fantastic genre present in the work cited. Specifically, the elements that place it as belonging to the magic realism. For this, the concepts of fantastic literature, fantastic genre and magic realism genre given by theorists Todorov (1975), Rodrigues (1988) and Propp (2001) were used. In addition, it is described, in a brief biography of the author JRR Tolkien, the way he came into contact with literature and how he started to observe the works of the fantastic genre, becoming a scholar in the area, despite not considering himself as such. Furthermore, in the analysis it is exposed through excerpts from the work why it is not characterized as a fantastic narrative, comparing excerpts from the narrative with the definitions given by theorists about the distinctive elements between one genre and another. Research has shown us that, when comparing the excerpts from The Hobbit with the definitions of fantastic, the magic realism and the hero's functions, the narrative fits better into this second genre.
