A 1937 first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit has been sold at auction to an anonymous bidder for £60,000 - twice what it was expected to reach. The Hobbit was Tolkien’s most successful book, establishing his name as an author, and was a prequel to the longer Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
Maps, photographs and manuscripts will also be sold at Bonhams in London.
The copy of The Hobbit is inscribed to Tolkien’s friend Read more
The row over the origins of “Hobbit” fossils found on the Indonesian island of Flores has taken a new twist. An Australian team claims the little people were not a new human species, but modern humans with a form of dwarfism caused by poor nutrition.
In 2004, international researchers announced the discovery of the ancient
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