J.R.R. Tolkein Day

Today celebrates the birth of J.R.R. Tolkien, famous for writing The Hobbit. He began it almost accidentally after scribbling “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” on a student paper in the early 1930s. It took several years of work as he shaped the Middle-earth world. The style is warm, archaic, and audience‑centred, inviting readers to imagine alongside him. He used a past‑tense, storyteller’s voice with occasional first‑person intrusions from an implied narrator. It was published in 1937. He wrote it partly for his children and partly from his love of language, legend, and you could say world discovery.

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