Not exactly a Middle Earth book.. - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Kin-strife · 10-24-2001, 07:33 AM

I've never read it but I'd like to. I read in one of his letters to Stanley Unwin that he wrote it in just two hours. Very odd for the meticulous JRRT who's usually known for writing and re-writing over and over.
Having not read it I don't really know the conection but I remember reading somewhere that it was influenced by his writing LoTD. Something about how he started out writing a simple sequal to the hobbit but it kept growing broader. Like Niggle who I believe began wanting to paint a leaf but that became a tree and then a forest and so on. Is that what happened or am I completely mistaken. I really must read it.

10-24-2001, 07:33 AM	#2
Kin-strife Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 58	I've never read it but I'd like to. I read in one of his letters to Stanley Unwin that he wrote it in just two hours. Very odd for the meticulous JRRT who's usually known for writing and re-writing over and over. Having not read it I don't really know the conection but I remember reading somewhere that it was influenced by his writing LoTD. Something about how he started out writing a simple sequal to the hobbit but it kept growing broader. Like Niggle who I believe began wanting to paint a leaf but that became a tree and then a forest and so on. Is that what happened or am I completely mistaken. I really must read it. __________________ "Come away, O human child!/ To the waters and the wild/With a faery hand in hand,/ For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."