by Durin on Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:47 am
To... I suppose sum up what the previous have said, I would look at The Hobbit being Tolkien's book that grasps everyone's attention and reels them in. I imagine that Tolkien had... more fun? writing The Hobbit then he did The Lord of the Rings. The magic of The Hobbit was that it was like no other book before it, it was fun, creative, fantasy-filled, though serious, yet appealing to children! Though I believe Lord of the Rings was for Tolkien to do for himself, to raise his standards as an author, to create a more... ''professional'' book to carry on the series as a whole.
I believe Tolkien had a good idea with The Hobbit, and he couldn't truly support his series as well as he did without the strong-boned, lore filled books of Lord of the Rings, as opposed to, (Comparing this to the Trilogy), the flimsy Hobbit.
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