cycas:writer-robin:Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien, wrote down “The Hobbit”
cycas: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’Hurray for Christopher Tolkien, forcing consistency on his father’s work since 1929. -- source link