Against the feuding authors wishes in 1954 HarperCollins released The Fellowship of the Ring,(Grotta 113) the second chapter in the lives of his extravagantly esteemed inhabitants of the middle-earth. ... (Grotta 114) The Guardian hailed Tolkien as a "born story teller",(Grotta 114) and the New Statesman and Nation called it "a story magnificently told with every kind of color, movement and greatness." ... An unlikely sort who had been an out cast among fellow Hobbits do to the shenanigans of his cousin Bilbo, for hobbits were short hairy little creatures that had simple desires and led sim...

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