![]() ![]() Eventually I thought I’d better find out what hobbits were like. Tolkien was marking papers, a kind of “piece work”, at his home in Northmoor Road, making “extra money” during the summer time, doing School Certificate papers, when “…Tolkien turned over a page to find that a candidate had mercifully left one of the pages with no writing on it (which is the best thing that can possibly happen to an examiner…”) He wrote on it: “‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ Then he remarked, “Names always generate a story in my mind. He was already Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford. Tolkien began his interest in the Middle-Earth in a most unusual way. ![]()
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