The History of The Hobbit
2007 nonfiction book about The Hobbit / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The History of The Hobbit is a two-volume study of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 children's fantasy novel The Hobbit. It was first published by HarperCollins in 2007. It contains Tolkien's unpublished drafts of the novel, with commentary by John D. Rateliff.[1] It details Tolkien's various revisions to The Hobbit, including abandoned revisions for the unpublished third edition of the work, intended for 1960, as well as previously unpublished original maps and illustrations drawn by Tolkien.[2]
Editor | John D. Rateliff |
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Author | J. R. R. Tolkien & John D. Rateliff |
Illustrator | J. R. R. Tolkien |
Cover artist | J. R. R. Tolkien |
Language | English |
Series | The History of The Hobbit |
Genre | Literary studies |
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Publication date | 2007 |
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Pages | 905 |
The work provides the same sort of literary analysis of The Hobbit that Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume The History of Middle-earth provides for The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. In Rateliff's view, the work is complementary to Douglas A. Anderson's 1988 work The Annotated Hobbit, which presents and comments upon a single text of the novel.