Tolkien: "Why I wrote The Hobbit"
In a 1968 interview, the author describes the moment he wrote The Hobbit's first line. BBC Culture pits it against The Hobbit's new trailer in our round up of the week's viral hits, alongside their archive predecessors.
The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again - http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140801-tolkien-why-i-wrote-the-hobbit (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140801-tolkien-why-i-wrote-the-hobbit)
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