Big fan of Tolkien and The Hobbit.
But, with some notable exceptions, as a poet he was pretty generally third-rate.
IMO.
Just got my sister to read The Hobbit a couple of weeks ago. Now hoooked on Tolkein.
Not many people realize the deep friendship Tolkien had with C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest Christian apologists in the 20th century. Such brilliant people. Tolkien was one of Lewis’s closest friends who helped lead Lewis from atheism to a profound Christian faith.
Loved the Hobbit when I was a teenager. Will have to read it again.
They were captured by Trolls (not Goblins). They’ve got their mythic monsters mixed up.
I had no idea this was the 75th! I’m currently reading the Hobbit to my sons in preperation for the movie this Winter. I’ve never read before and can’t believe what I’ve been missing all these years!
I read it in the fourth grade. It is best appreciated with the mind of a fourth-grader.
For adults, I recommend Spenser’s Faerie Queene.
I can go to the White House website, if I have a pressing need for that...
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Tolkien was a magician with words. I love his prose, I only wish I could write 1/4 as well as him.
Thank you