{"id":104002,"date":"2017-09-21T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T06:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=104002"},"modified":"2017-09-21T04:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T09:50:23","slug":"the-hobbit-celebrates-80-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2017\/09\/21\/104002-the-hobbit-celebrates-80-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit celebrates 80-year Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today represents a landmark anniversary for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien. Eighty years ago, what started as a bedtime story for his children became an enduring tale that would eventually be translated into over 40 languages. Published on September 21, 1937, The Hobbit<\/em>, Professor Tolkien’s tale of Bilbo Baggins and his great adventure through Middle-earth with a wizard and a company of 13 Dwarves, captured the imagination of readers young and old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the tale began as a story for his young children, one day the Oxford Professor famously turned to a blank page of a student’s class paper he was correcting and wrote, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.” The rest is history! Millions of readers young and old fell in love with Bilbo; so much so that the demand for more Hobbity goodness resulted in the publication of Tolkien’s landmark work, The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, some years later. <\/em>In turn, The Lord of the Rings<\/em> allowed Tolkien to slip in more glimpses of his beloved Middle-earth mythology, much of which was eventually published posthumously by his son Christopher in works such as The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales<\/em> and The History of Middle-earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to The Hobbit<\/em>, Tolkien’s world of Middle-earth quickly grew in popularity, and set the tone for a new genre of fantasy fiction. Eighty years later, the Professor’s work is still beloved and enjoys a strong following of readers around the world. No surprise for readers of TORn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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