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Post #335662

Author
Scruffy
Parent topic
which should've came first? PT or OT?
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Date created
7-Nov-2008, 12:05 PM

Just to be a pedant, let me point out that Tolkien's "backstory" was written before he had ever thought of hobbits, and was always intended for publication. It evolved a great deal over the decades, but he always planned on people reading it some day.