The Hobbit: There & Back Again – 85 Years On!

Last week, I shared receiving a gift of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien from The Wall of Night series’ publisher, Harper Voyager, and discussed Tolkien’s literary and fantasy legacy.

Only to realize, in retrospect, that I had omitted a salient fact, which is that another reason for the gift is because 2022 is the 85th year since The Hobbit was first published, away back in 1937!

I don’t know about you, but that feels like a significant numbers of years in print to me, and another amazing achievement,...