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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli
It's perhaps relevant that, when Tolkien rewrote the first chapters of The Hobbit to match the LR, a person to whom he showed it commented, 'it's not bad, but it's not The Hobbit!' Precisely. An effort to 'darken' it or whatever would be a betrayal of the spirit of the book.
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Very, very good point!
Now davem read me some of this stuff from History of the Hobbit and it really was dreadful - and it's not often something Tolkien wrote was
that bad, is it
