"The Hobbit," first published on this day in 1937, began as a bedtime story. Tolkien started writing it in 1930, when he was a 38-year-old English professor, to
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"The Hobbit," first published on this day in 1937, began as a bedtime story. Tolkien started writing it in 1930, when he was a 38-year-old English professor, to entertain his four young children.
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