Writing style, Hobbit vs. LOTR

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

In The Hobbit, Tolkien writes as though he was almost in the story.

If you had heard only a quater of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale.

The mother of our particular hobbit-what is a hobbit? I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us.

See what I mean? He kind of wrote like Walter R. Brooks.(He wrote the Freddy the Pig books)

[ May 23, 2002: Message edited by: Gimli Son Of Gloin ]