The Hobbit remains the book I hold the fondest memories of first reading, & of reading many times for many years afterward. Happy birthday to an absolutely precious book.

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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort” The Hobbit was published #OTD, 1937.

I too have enjoyed reading The Hobbit many times over the years. What I find particularly enjoyable about it is that it lacks that sense of fair things coming to an end which pervades LOTR. The ring is discovered in TH but we don't yet have any inkling of its doom laden importance.