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You should look up "The Tolkien Professor". He does a lecture series on The Hobbit which makes a pretty good case for it not to be just a "straightforward" book. Tolkien had already been writing what would become The Silmarillion before he wrote The Hobbit. It's quite rich with its own distillation of faerie lore.
You should look up "The Tolkien Professor". He does a lecture series on The Hobbit which makes a pretty good case for it not to be just a "straightforward" book. Tolkien had already been writing what would become The Silmarillion before he wrote The Hobbit. It's quite rich with its own distillation of faerie lore.
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