Today is the birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien (books by this author),
born in Bloemfontein, South Africa (1892). He studied classics, language, and
literature at Oxford. In 1925, Tolkien returned to Oxford University as a
professor. One day, while grading exams, he discovered that a student had left
one whole page in his examination booklet blank. Tolkien, for reasons unknown
even to him, wrote on the page, "In a hole in the ground there lived a
hobbit." This single line turned into a bedtime story that he told his
children, and from there, a book: The Hobbit (1937).
2 comments:
Aww... that's the same edition of the book that was in my house when I was growing up. My dad read us the book, and then I read it again for school in 10th grade. Such good memories. :)
Vicki, that's so funny. I chose that image because it's the edition of the book I had! Glad it brought back good memories for you too!
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