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What are you reading for #ReadingTolkienDay? I've taken Unfinished Tales of the shelf and look forward to reading some of the shorter pieces toward the back after dinner tonight.
UT, to my mind, is the last canonical book. After that it's all mainly insight into Tolkien's process. Over a shelf metre of insight! 😄
Looking for the first film adaptation of The Hobbit, except it's psychedelic, reads like fan fiction written by a fourth grader, was made in just a month, is only 12 minutes long and yet is somehow faithful to the core energy and story beats, was used to hustle Tolkien out of $100,000, and was mostly unseen lost media until the 2010?
Look no further. The Hobbit (1967).
And the story behind this weird lil gem:
