The Hobbit Preface

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The Hobbit chapters

[Author's Note]

The prefatory note, labeled Author's Note in some editions, refers to the untitled preface placed before the first chapter of The Hobbit.

The prefatory note starts with THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN written in Cirth. It proceeds to discuss some issues related to the words dwarf and orc. Then it gives a short description of the Cirth writing system used in The Hobbit. The letters of the moon-runes, read by Elrond in Rivendell, are provided in the end.

History

The note was first added to the second edition of The Hobbit (1951).^[1] In 1966, a completely revised prefatory note first appeared in the Longmans/Unwin edition.^[2] The latter text has been used since.

References

↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. lxviii
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Douglas A. Anderson, (ed.), (2002) The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition, p. 28

[1] Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. lxviii

[2] J.R.R. Tolkien; Douglas A. Anderson, (ed.), (2002) The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition, p. 28

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