Question

The Hobbit, Part 1
1.

Why did J.R.R. Tolkien write The Hobbit and other stories of Middle-earth?

A.
He wanted to record a factual history of the British Isles.

B.
He wanted to convince readers that Middle-earth was real and that the events of his stories truly happened.

C.
He wanted to design a complex imaginary world in which he could set a large number of tales.

D.
He wanted to add to legends that already existed about Middle-earth.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer: C.
He wanted to explain what happened during a period of history that modern people know very little about. Most people assume that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit to entertain his children. [ However, the real answer is more complex than that. According to John Rateliff in The History of The Hobbit, Tolkien probably began developing the original story around the middle of 1930. By

January 1933 he was able to pass a full-length manuscript to his friend C.S. Lewis. Rateliff’s analysis of the various explanations of the development of the story includes some references to oral story-telling mixed in with references to Tolkien’s actual writing. According to Rateliff’s summary of events, decades later Michael Tolkien recalled a selection of names that from which a parody version (perhaps not written down) of the story was shared with the elder Tolkien children. That is, Tolkien seems to have worked at writing the actual story during his free time between teaching seasons and at the same time while sharing the story with his sons also revised it “on the fly”, as it were, for simple amusement.

Answer 5

C is the correct answer. Tolkien originally wrote the hobbit as a series of smaller stories that he would tell to his children at night. From there he used the Hobbit to expand on Middle-Earth and create the Trilogy of The Lord of the Rings.