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...Hobbits are simple, wholesome, neat, fun-loving and appreciative of the good life. They need no hallucinogens to tell them when parties are fun, food good, and life pleasant and comfortable. In pursuit of their affairs they are realistic and responsible. A Hobbit pad is clean, comfortable, beloved and cozy, a good place for a comforting cup of tea. We stay-ins must judge from TIME'S picture that hippies live just a step above animals...
...explain its appeal. To some, it is a poetic portrayal of the times, with Sauron and his destructive threat seen as an analogy to atomic war. For others, the Frodo saga represents a way to escape the mundane realities of life. "I'd like to live in the hobbit world because this world is so foul," says Marilyn Nulman, who works at the Harvard bookstore. Another enthusiast likes the Rings' old-fashioned moral simplicity: "You cheer the hero and boo the villain." Whatever the reasons, Frodo seems here to stay. As one mother put it when she bought...
...Flies has been swatted. This year, the unquestioned literary god on college campuses is a three-foot-high creature with long curly hair on his feet, a passion for six vast meals a day, and the improbable name of Frodo Baggins. And would you believe that Frodo is a hobbit...
...hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD. On many U.S. campuses, buttons declaring FRODO LIVES and GO GO GANDALF-frequently written in Elvish script-are almost as common as football letters. Tolkien fans customarily greet each other with a hobbity kind of greeting ("May the hair on your toes grow ever longer"), toss fragments of hobbit language into their ordinary talk. One favorite word is mathom, meaning something one saves but doesn't need, as in "I've just got to get rid of all these mathoms." Permanently hooked Ringworms frequently memorize long passages from...
This dramatic development depends primarily on an ever-widening focus of significance. The story begins as The Hobbit, a charming "fairy tale for my children" written twenty years ago, but grows up into the trilogy on an adult level. Within this saga the emphasis expands from personal to national to historical, thus heightening the seemingly untenable dramatic pitch...