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Tolkien never expected his stories to become popular, but by sheer accident a book called The Hobbit, which he had written some years before for his own children, came in 1936 to the attention of Susan Dagnall, an employee of the London publishing firm George Allen & Unwin, who persuaded Tolkien to submit it for publication. However, the book attracted adult readers as well as children, and it became popular enough for the publishers to ask Tolkien to produce a sequel.
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I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
brJ. R. R. Tolkien
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. Tolkien