TY - ABST T1 - The Hobbit or There and Back Again Y1 - 1937 A1 - J[ohn] R[onald] R[eul] Tolkien (1897-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic children's fantasy novel. Hobbiton-across-the-Water is an arcadia.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

2nd. ed. 1951; 3rd ed. 1966; 4th ed. 1978; [50th] anniversary ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1987 with a “Foreword” by Christopher Tolkien (i-xvi); 75th Anniversary Edition. London: Harper Collins, 2011, with a “Preface” that is excerpts from the 50th ed. “Foreword” (v-xiv). For further information see The Annotated Hobbit. Rev. and exp. ed. annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. Illus. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 2002. It includes “The Quest of Erebor” [“Gandalf’s explanation of how arranged Bilbo’s adventure”] (367-77); “On Runes” (368-69); and a bibliography that includes, among other things, an extensive list of editions of The Hobbit.

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