Dr. Thompson joins me again to discuss the novel,"The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien.  We continue the journey to chapter 2, "Roast Mutton", and when we get to the end we will stop.

In this episode Bilbo runs out in the morning without a pocket handkerchief, meets some big ugly trolls, and gets a new sword.

"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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