Found this at the local library by chance and seized on it.
For her tenth birthday I’m buying Little One the best bound
version of The Hobbit that I can
find. These CD lectures on Tolkien, his art
and craft, body of work and meaning is only fueling my excitement.
Oh, and I went back to that library today and what did I see
– again, by chance – in the Books for Sale
bin? The
Hobbit, a weather-beaten, gnarled copy retailing for fifty cents. Needless to say I seized on that, too, and
will read it a month before Little One’s birthday, because it’s been close to
forty years since I’ve read the prelude to The
Lord of the Rings and I just know I will be plied with dozens, scores, and
hundreds of questions.
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