Who wrote the novel "The Hobbit"?

"The Hobbit" is a fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in children's literature.

The novel introduced Tolkien’s richly imagined world of Middle Earth in its Third Age and served as a prologue to his "The Lord of the Rings".

Hobbits, a race of small humanlike creatures, characteristically value peace, simplicity, and cosy homes yet are capable of incredible feats of courage and resourcefulness.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion". They have caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature.

In 2008, "The Times" ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Forbes ranked him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.

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Alex Vivaldi

Actually, the correct answer is not one of the choices. Tolkien is misspelled as Tolkein...

Jacqueline Hageman

It would be nice if the name is spelled correct in the question!

George Oliver Prince

Read all his novels and watched all the movies

dvdeaton

A little Rock and Roll trivia: EVERY lyric from Led Zeppelin's "Battle of Evermore" comes from "the Hobbit.."

Todd Van Dell

Tolkien was great friends with Clive Staples (C.S.) "Jack" Lewis. Both were colleagues and fellow professors at Oxford University. Lewis had an interesting background: He grew up an atheist, but later in life returned to Christianity (his wife Joy was a devout Christian who came from a Jewish background. Both Tolkien and Lewis wrote fantasy fiction; of the two authors, only Lewis also wrote science fiction. Lewis is primarily known for his fantasy saga The Chronicles of Narnia. Although the saga is not overtly religious, there are strong religious underpinnings that run through the saga. (Probably the most well known is that Aslan the lion is a metaphor for Jesus or God, although Jack later denied the allegory angle; he said Aslan was always meant to represent Christ, a fictional version of the real Jesus, and actually had Aslan die and then was resurrected three days later, exactly as Jesus had done. Jack claimed "there was no allegory at all.") Lewis also wrote a science fiction trilogy, prior to the Chronicles of Narnia, that imagined what life must be like on other planets than Earth, including Venus and Mars. Also in contrast to his friend, Tolkien, Jack wrote several nonfiction books, most of which discussed at length how he came to be a Christian, when he'd spent much of his life denying there even was a God. (He was raised in a Christian household and fell away from the faith at 15, and became angry with God for not existing.) Possibly the most well-known of these philosophical treatises is Mere Christianity.