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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
Indeed; I think it fairly silly to suppose that "marring" or "restoring" Tolkien's vision is a matter of a few minor changes to the text - or even 360
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That's why I brought up The Annotated Hobbit. Few besides dyed-in-the-wool Tolkien fanatics are even aware of its existence. Scholars and avid fans have a copy, it's fun for discussion & debate, but it represents a very small percentage of the copies of The Hobbit overall and it's not the one you read to your kids.