John Rateliff presents a major examination of how Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece, including the complete unpublished draft of the story.

70th Anniversary edition. The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in th

The History of the Hobbit presents for the first time, in two volumes, the complete unpublished text of the original manuscript of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Hobbit, a

First published in 1938, The Hobbit is a story that "grew in the telling,” and many characters and events in the published book are completely different from

An insightful companion volume to the original classic designed to bring a thorough and unique new reading of "The Hobbit" to a general audience written by the