The Hobbit Published: Tolkien's Middle Earth Debuts
Tolkien submitted the manuscript to Allen & Unwin after the publisher's 10-year-old son, Rayner Unwin, read it and wrote a review recommending it — for a shilling's pay. Tolkien had been scribbling the story's opening line, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit,' on a blank exam paper he was grading at Oxford, with no plan whatsoever. That bored, distracted scrawl on someone else's test paper eventually sold over 100 million copies.
September 21, 1937
89 years ago
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