rabbits-of-negative-euphoria: writer-robin: Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien
rabbits-of-negative-euphoria:writer-robin:Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien, wrote down “The Hobbit” in the first place, when it was originally intended to be an oral bedtime story for his children.(found in the forward to The Hobbit Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1987)‘Damn the boy’#have you ever been so annoying you caused the reinvention of an entire literary genre -- source link
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