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When tentative news began to leak, pre-Y2K, that Kiwi director Peter Jackson was making a live-action Lord of the Rings trilogy, legions of longtime LOTR fans (including me — at age 8, The Hobbit was the first novel I finished) were excited, but our enthusiasm was tempered. For one thing, the casting seemed hard to […]
1. In the mid-19th century, ‘hobbit’ (or ‘hobbet’) meant a seed basket or a measure of 2.5 bushels. 2. When Tolkien re-invented the word, he said it meant ‘hole-builder’ or ‘hole-dweller’. 3. ‘Hobbit’ is also the nickname given to the extinct race of dwarf humans, Homo floresiensis, found on the Indonesian island of Flores in […]
