Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. on historicizing 'The Hobbit'
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 20, 2023
That said, this student of Tolkien had at least one salient critical premise: more can be going on in a work of literary fantasy than just make-believe. avoids reductive shortcuts while also presenting Tolkien’s first work of fiction as deeply historical. Hobbits are not magical or supernatural; they are, basically, small humans.
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