thinkingingallifreyan: rabbits-of-negative-euphoria: writer-robin: Christopher Tolkien explains why
thinkingingallifreyan: 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 To be fair, Christopher isn’t exactly remembering things exactly either, there was no character called Thorin at that point - Thorin was called Gandalf in the first few draughts of the written version. I really appreciate that you apparently knew this off the top of your head -- source link
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