The History of the Hobbit presents for the first time, in two volumes, the complete unpublished text of the original manuscript of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Hobbit, a

The second half of a major new examination of how J.R.R. Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece 'The Hobbit', including his complete unpublished draft v

This brand new, shorter edition of the critically acclaimed work includes J.R.R. Tolkien's complete draft manuscript of 'The Hobbit', together with notes about

A major new examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece 'The Hobbit', including his complete unpublished draft version of the story,

John Rateliff presents a major examination of how Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece, including the complete unpublished draft of the story.