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The first American editions of the Hobbit were published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. It is evident that Houghton Mifflin printed the first American edition several times. The First Impression (commonly referred to as the First State) of the first American edition was published in 1938. The specific date is unknown, as is the exact number of copies of the first state. The Second Impression, or Second State was published March 1, 1938, limited to 5,000 copies. The first American editions differed significantly from the UK editions by the inclusion of four of Tolkien's color plates (a slightly different set of four were used in the second impression of the UK edition).
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The Hobbit is a fantasy novel written by J.R.R. Tolkien originally as a children's story in the tradition of the fairy tale. It was first published on September 21, 1937, and is now seen as a prelude to Tolkien's more monumental work The Lord of the Rings (published in 1954 and 1955.)
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In its final revision, The Hobbit still has many differences in tone from The Lord of the Rings. For example, goblins are more often referred to as Orcs in The Lord of the Rings.[17] Many of these inconsistencies occur because Tolkien originally wrote the book as a children's story separate from (but connected to) his mythological work, [9] and his concept of Middle-earth was to change and evolve throughout his life and writings.[18]
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Hobbit began some years ago (1st Age) when ‘Turk’ and Gene sparked a vision to write music. The combination of similar rock ‘n’ roll influences, and the powerful attraction (and living in) to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, opened the way to a style everyone called "Fantasy Rock". The addition of Rusty Honeycutt and his artistic drumworks rounded out the band. When Richard Hill came into the "fold", the fellowship was complete, and the vision became a reality. After some time, Rusty left the band and was replaced by the very solid drumming of Keith Young.
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In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien retroactively establishes that the events of The Hobbit take place during the "Third Age" of Middle-earth,[10] a fictional prehistoric Earth[10][11]. He presents himself as the translator of the supposedly historic Red Book of Westmarch, where Bilbo and Frodo's stories were recorded. In the book's prologue, as well as in the chapter "The Shadow of the Past", Tolkien explains the original version of the riddle-game as a "lie" that Bilbo made up because of the One Ring's influence on him, and which he originally wrote down in his diary, the basis of The Hobbit. Revised versions of The Hobbit would contain the "true" version of events.[10]
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The availability of an illustrated version of the Hobbit is really useful and you can do a lot of work comparing the two versions of the story. It provides opportunities to talk about the role of illustrations in stories and the importance of descriptions in written texts. You can compare the same parts of the story in each text and see what cuts the person adapting the novel has made. You can use the links between the two texts to talk about speech in texts, looking perhaps at the role of the speech marks. Children can convert segments of text from the novel to their own comic strip versions. They can convert a page or so from the comic novel into a proper written story - this is a good activity as they have to add a lot of description.
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