... By J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973), a former professor of English at the University of Oxford, was one of the great authors of his day. Though he did not receive very much recognition in his lifetime, Tolkien is now being recognized due to the success of a trilogy of books he authored, The Lord of the Rings. In The Hobbit, a prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien introduces to the reader a fictional world with vividly described creatures and places ... . The Hobbit starts when a wizard named Gandalf summons a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins to go on an advent...

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