J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”
Hobbit
The word “hobbit” has been found exactly once in…
The word “hobbit” has been found exactly once in texts predating Tolkien, in a list of magical creatures with no explanation or context.
Almost all of The Hobbit’s character na …
Almost all of The Hobbit’s character names were taken out of an old Icelandic poem “Dvergatal”.
All the mountains on Titan are named aft …
All the mountains on Titan are named after mountains and peaks from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.