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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: 121. Tolkien Gave Up on Fixing The Hobbit : The Hobbit #10
Description: When Tolkien attempted to rewrite the Hobbit in 1960, he just gave up halfway through Chapter 3. In this episode we look at:
Changes in time and distance
Changes in Prose and style
Why he gave up
His detailed notes on timeline and itinerary that outlined his changes to The Hobbit
In our extended episode (available for our members) we talk about:
What are the least Lord of the Rings/Middle-earth type events in The Hobbit that Tolkien would likely have changed.
Here are the pics to go along with today’s Hobbit Fact about the Hildebrandt br...