A world for children: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: or There and Back Again (London: Allen and Unwin, 1937) The publishers claim that The Hobbit, though very unlike Alice, resembles it in being the work of a professor at play. A more important truth is that both belong to a very small class of… Read More »
Source: C. S. Lewis Reviews The Hobbit, 1937
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A small early birthday gift to myself on the 78th anniversary of this review, originally published in the Times Literary Supplement (2 October 1937), 714.
Reblogged this on As a Matter of Fancy and commented:
Lewis seems to have forecast the reception correctly, too.