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Ahmad Qassab Bashi asked this question about The Hobbit, or There and Back Again:
Should I read the Hobbit first or The Children of Hurin?
Evil Overlord It depends whether you'd rather spend your afternoon chuckling at bumbling dwarf antics or bawling your eyes out at the cruelness of fate.

Lord of t…more It depends whether you'd rather spend your afternoon chuckling at bumbling dwarf antics or bawling your eyes out at the cruelness of fate.

Lord of the Rings fans who read The Children of Hurin tend to get their Bilbo-themed handkerchiefs really, really wet.(less)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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