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He was grading papers one day and came to a blank sheet of paper in the stack.

He scribbled on the blank sheet the first line of The Hobbit: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.", then continued grading.

A few days later he began expanding that line, adding material from various Anglo-Saxon legends (he taught Anglo-Saxon).

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It was created by JRR Tolkien. It is a small person about half the size of a normal human.

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J.r.r. Tolkien

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