This allowed for Tolkien to develop his unique story and to form complex characters the world had never seen before. ... In turn he was able to create a world filled with imagination and mythology which his individual characters and languages were used to make more realistic. ... Tolkien rushed for a pen and wrote on the paper "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit". "The word "hobbit" swam into his head, and soon he had invented the genus of hole-dwelling manikins, 3-4 feet high, domesticated yet tough" (Yates). ... For Frodo, his life flipped upside down, once a s...

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