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Dr. Thompson joins me again to discuss the novel,"The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien. We begin at the beginning, chapter 1, and when we get to the end we will stop.
In a hole in the ground is where it all begins - when suddenly BOOM! Dwarves. But "no thank you, we don't care for adventures around here," says our little hero, and so the journey to free the long enchanted gold almost ends where it begins. Thank goodness he is more of a burglar than a grocer.
"The Hobbit" was written by Tolkien in 1937 for his children, though he began the work after finding a blank page in a composition book while he was grading student compositions. There began history when the philologist, amazed & relieved at seeing the blank page, wrote the immortal words, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit". Received with almost unanimously favorable reviews (among the fans were CS Lewis & WH Auden), the novel was translated into several other languages from English and eventually adapted for stage, screen, radio, board games, and video games. It was the precursor to the later novel by Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings" and still remains one of the most endearing novels of the 20th (and 21st) century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit
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"When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. ... Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.” - Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
“…but nasturtians was deliberate and represented a final triumph over the high-handed printers. They had corrected his English without reference to him and he had been put to the trouble of proving to the chief proof-reader his own ignorance and rebuking him for his impertinence. He had dug in about nasturtians, which he had always said. It was an Anglicization after the "Indian Cress" was naturalized in the 18th century. Tolkien had consulted the college gardener: "What do you call these things?" "Tropaeolum, sir." "But when just talking to the dons?" "I says nasturtians, sir." "Not nasturtium?" "No, sir; that’s watercress." - Tolkien, letter 148
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Dr. Thompson joins me again to discuss the novel,"The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien. We begin at the beginning, chapter 1, and when we get to the end we will stop.
In a hole in the ground is where it all begins - when suddenly BOOM! Dwarves. But "no thank you, we don't care for adventures around here," says our little hero, and so the journey to free the long enchanted gold almost ends where it begins. Thank goodness he is more of a burglar than a grocer.
"The Hobbit" was written by Tolkien in 1937 for his children, though he began the work after finding a blank page in a composition book while he was grading student compositions. There began history when the philologist, amazed & relieved at seeing the blank page, wrote the immortal words, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit". Received with almost unanimously favorable reviews (among the fans were CS Lewis & WH Auden), the novel was translated into several other languages from English and eventually adapted for stage, screen, radio, board games, and video games. It was the precursor to the later novel by Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings" and still remains one of the most endearing novels of the 20th (and 21st) century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit
The text online
"When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. ... Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.” - Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
“…but nasturtians was deliberate and represented a final triumph over the high-handed printers. They had corrected his English without reference to him and he had been put to the trouble of proving to the chief proof-reader his own ignorance and rebuking him for his impertinence. He had dug in about nasturtians, which he had always said. It was an Anglicization after the "Indian Cress" was naturalized in the 18th century. Tolkien had consulted the college gardener: "What do you call these things?" "Tropaeolum, sir." "But when just talking to the dons?" "I says nasturtians, sir." "Not nasturtium?" "No, sir; that’s watercress." - Tolkien, letter 148
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