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Exploring The Hobbit I:
Sources and Analogues
Candidate
Hybrid
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In this module, we will look at the literary precursors to The Hobbit: works that helped establish the genre in which Tolkien was writing, or which influenced Tolkien’s own thinking. We will examine the themes and ideas of nineteenth-century children’s fantasy that may have inspired Tolkien, and con…
Precepted by
Dr.
Sara Brown