The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien, Rob Inglis
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Author: J. R. R. Tolkien, Rob InglisEdition: Audio Cassette
Format: Bargain Price, Unabridged
Published: 2001-06-01
ISBN: N/A
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Book Review: Over the Edge of the Wild
Summary: 5 Stars
It must be over a decade since I last read this book- and nearly 35 years since I first read it. Yet, when I reread it this week I still became completely engrossed in it once again. Tolkien crafted a nearly perfect faery-tale here. In some ways it presages the Lord of the Rings, yet it is somehow different. It has a different feel to it. Had LOTR never been written this book would have still stood on its own as a classic.
When I choose to reread this classic I searched out a copy of the edition that I first read in High School (a friend lent me his treasured copy.) This was the 1966 Houghton Mifflin hardcover edition- 25th printing. I had heard some negative reports on the quality of later editions and I knew that this one was first rate. It has Tolkien's own illustrations in it and on the dust cover. Plus, after over 40 years it has still physically held together- and probably shall for 40 more.
So many books have copied this one over the years, but most of them are quickly forgotten while this one will last forever. But then, Tolkien said that he sensed that everything that he put into this book (and LOTR) had actually happened somewhere, sometime, and that he was just tapping into it...
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