That world was not the Middle-earth that we have come to know but it was an earlier Middle-earth that had begun to take shape only a few years before. But I have only too much to say, and much already written, about the world into which the hobbit intruded…. Mr Baggins seems to have exhibited so fully both the Took and the Baggins side of their nature. I cannot think of anything more to say about HOBBITS. In fact, Tolkien had a more fully formed thought than that he could not write more about hobbits:Īll the same I am a little perturbed. Baggins seems to have exhibited so fully both the Took and the Baggins side of their nature” (Tolkien, “The Letters of J.R.R. When first told this by his publishers, Tolkien replied, “I cannot think of anything more to say about hobbits. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings was that his readers wanted to read more about hobbits. Q: Why Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings?ĪNSWER: As I pointed out in “Hobbit Tales, Or Never There And Back Again”: The story of how ‘The Lord of the Rings’ came to be is itself an amazing biographical journey. Tolkien did not set out to write a masterpiece in modern fantasy fiction.
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