He wrote the book at the request/urging of his friends (Inklings) after he read/told portions of it to them. But he originally told and made up the story as a bedtime story for his children.
It first came about as stories that Tolkien told to his children and then decided to write down.
The sequel to The Hobbit is The Lord of the Rings.
Absolutley! you might be interested in the Hobbit. Tolkien was inspired to write The Hobbit thanks to Beowulf.
I didn't know Tolkien was a timelord. o.O It was written in the 1930's -.- Fran Walsh wrote the movie
He wrote the words in an exam booklet that he was grading on an empty page.
The Hobbit is set about 60 years before most of the events in The Lord of the Rings.The Hobbit was published in 1937. The Lord of the Rings did not come out for over 20 years after that. It took Tolkien a long time to write the follow up.
Much of the base for the books comes from writing that became the Silmarilian, which Tolkien worked on for many years. He then wrote The Hobbit in the 1930's and the Lord of the Rings was done int eh 40's and 50's before publication. The Silmarillian was published after Tolkien's death by his son.
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit first (in the 1930s, released in 1937). He wrote The Lord of the Rings between 1937 and 1950, and was published in 1954/5; he started work on The Lord of the Rings after The Hobbit was published.He had actually written the stories that make up The Silmarillion even earlier, while recovering in a hospital during world war 1 from combat wounds. But while many parts of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings stories refer to events in The Silmarillion, Tolkien never felt those stories were finished and was always reediting them throughout his life, so he never made a serious attempt to get them published himself.
The author JRR Tolkein wrote a great many works, but is most famous for the following: The Hobbit (1937) (and the following which is considered the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy:) The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) The Two Towers (1954) The Return of the King (1955) See the "Related Links" below for a complete bibliography.
No, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote all of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings stories entirely himself, nobody is writing any new ones.However, his son Christopher Tolkien has taken many of his father's earlier works and compiled and edited them into publishable form. The first of these was The Silmarillion. These stories however contain no hobbits and are mostly about the Elves and wars that happened long ago in the First Age.
After some time, The Hobbit was published, and Tolkien was asked to write a sequel to the novel. He first thought to send Bilbo on another adventure because he had run out of money then he started conceiving The Lord of the Rings as we know it. He took fifteen/twenty years to create and write LotR, and The Fellowship of the Ring was published in 1954.
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