The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again Facts

When publisher George Allen first received the manuscript of The Hobbit from dusty academic J.R.R. Tolkien, he gave his ten-year-old son a shilling (about fifty cents) to write a report on whether...

GThere is absolutely nothing steamy in this novel at all. It's a kid's book, after all, so the closest look we get at anybody's body is an absolutely un-sensual description of the curly fur on hobb...

General InfluencesThere are no direct references in The Hobbit. Nowhere does Tolkien say, "Check out Beowulf! I like it and it's good!" But there are many, many texts that have influenced The Hobbi...