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The Hobbit is a pub in the Bevois Valley area of Southampton, England. Previously the Portswood Hotel , it was named after J. R. R. Tolkien 's book The Hobbit in 1989. In 2012 the pub was involved in a legal dispute with Middle-earth Enterprises , a company owned by film producer Saul Zaentz , over its use of the name.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983. All of them were initially delivered as lectures to academics, with the exception of " On Translating Beowulf " , which Christopher Tolkien notes in his foreword is ...
It and The Hobbit have spawned Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films, which have had billion-dollar takings at the box office. [4] [5] The books and films have stimulated enormous Tolkien fandom activity in meetings such as Tolkienmoot [6] and on the Internet, with discussion groups, fan art, and many thousands of Tolkien fan fiction stories. [7]
The work provides the same sort of literary analysis of The Hobbit that Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume The History of Middle-earth provides for The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. In Rateliff's view, the work is complementary to Douglas A. Anderson's 1988 work The Annotated Hobbit, which presents and comments upon a single text of the ...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro. It is based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit trilogy is the first installment in acting as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the ...
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A Tolkien Compass, a 1975 collection of essays edited by Jared Lobdell, was one of the first books of Tolkien scholarship to be published; it was written without sight of The Silmarillion, published in 1977. Some of the essays have remained at the centre of such scholarship. Most were written by academics for fan-organised conferences.