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  TOLKIEN Facts ~ The HOBBIT ~ #1: One quote to rule them all !   “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”   This opening sentence from The Hobbit became so well known and world-wide famous that in 1980 it was incorporated into the 15th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations ). ~ The Hobbit has been translated into at least 41 languages ​​(by 2002) and the book itself has been published in over a hundred editions around the World. This first sentence is recognizable in many languages ​​and has become even more famous than the first line of The Ring-verse from The Lord of the Rings . 👉 Please visit Facebook page  The Tolkien Comp ass   for PDF and JPEG file to share in social media. Always follow #TrueTolkien and stay curious ! #tolkienfact #tolkienfan #thetolkienist #tolkiengeek #tolkiennerd   Watch  The Tolkien Compass   playl...

In Letter no. 112 (on  30 November 1947 to  Katherine Farrer), J.R.R. introduced  text in Runes . Text as a postcard, is written in Futhorc (not in Cirth), which are Old English (Anglo-Saxon) runes used by the author in The Hobbit . At that time, original runic writing system ( Cirth ) used in  The Lord of the Rings is not deviced yet. The text is a modern English, but display the use of Westron of Third Age . Runic text: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, runes from letter 112 Westron translation: þree manor road sunday noveber þe þirtieþ dear mrs farrer: of course i will sign yo ur copy of þe hobbit. i am honoured by þe recwest. it is good news þat þe book is obtain able again. þe next book will cotain more d etailed information about runes and oþer alfabets in respose to many encwiries. in þe meantime while þe great work is beiŋ finiš ed i wonder if you would like a proper key to þe special dwarviš adaptation of þe eŋliš runic alfabet only part ...