Premium Content Tolkien's Hobbit: From Children's Story to Mythic Creation
By Elsje E. Fourie - August 01, 2001
"Mr. Baggins began as a comic tale among conventional and inconsistent fairy-tale dwarves, and got drawn into the edge of it - so that even Sauron the terrible peeped over the edge."
-J.R.R Tolkien, letter to his publisher (quoted in Carpenter 1977, 182).
The Hobbit started as little more than a bedtime story for Tolkien's children. Like most of his…
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