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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: 154. Tolkien Wrote the Ultimate Retcon - The Hobbit #38
Description: Most people haven’t read how Tolkien actually wrote how The Hobbit precisely connects to The Lord of the Rings. In The Quest of Erebor (first published in Unfinished Tales) Tolkien explains precisely how every major event in The Hobbit is connected to the greater story in The Lord of the Rings. And it’s not only the historical/factual connections–Tolkien clearly connects the philosophical underpinnings of Middle-earth more clearly into The Hobbit too!
We take a look at:
The three published versions of the Quest for Erebor—and why the Annotated Hobbit’s is the longest...