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...ahrairah. There is a brief glossary of rabbit terms. The quotations at the head of each chapter derive from Aeschylus, Xenophon, Pilgrim's Progress, Morte d' Arthur. But otherwise Watership Down offers little to build a literary cult upon. On the American-whimsy exchange, one Tolkien hobbit should still be worth a dozen talking rabbits...
Died. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 81, creative mythologer and author of the immensely popular The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit (see BOOKS...
...reluctantly by a curious, home-loving small creature with furry feet and a preposterous name, is slightly enigmatic. But some 10 million passionate readers round the world will instantly recognize it as the real beginning of one of the great fairy tale quests in modern literature. Frodo is a Hobbit, three feet or so tall. The ring is magic and dangerous. It renders the good and weak who wear it invisible, but it provides both the power and the itch to dominate the world to any bad and overweening personage who may possess it. Sauron, the Dark Lord of Mordor...
...last week at the age of 8 1 . Knowing that an imaginary world must be realistically equipped down to the last whisker of the last monster, Tolkien put close to 20 years into the creation of Middle-earth, the three-volume Lord of the Rings and its predecessor, The Hobbit (1938). He also equipped readers with 157 pages of history, appendixes, indexes, tables of consanguinity, and philologically impeccable notes on all the languages, including Elvish and Sindarin, spoken on Middle-earth. In the years between 1954, when the book came out, and the present, Tolkien saw his readership spread from...
...Hobbit Holes. The loosely structured curriculum centers around month-long seminars on subjects that are selected as much by the students as by the staff. Youthful imagination is given free reign. In a seminar on sex and psychology, students thought it would be fitting to attend one session in the nude, although only one girl felt emancipated enough to do so. To study "aggression," the kids took to the woods, pounced from trees, acted out the roles of belligerent animals. After reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, they dug Hobbit holes, then crawled into them...