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The first authorised adaptation of
J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlins ...
's 1937 novel ''
The Hobbit ''The Hobbit, or There and Back Again'' is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the ''N ...
'' was a stage production by St. Margaret's School, Edinburgh in March 1953. Subsequently, ''The Hobbit'' has been adapted for a variety of media including stage, screen, radio, board games and video games. Several of these adaptations have received critical recognition of their own, including a video game that won the Golden Joystick Award, a scenario of a war game that won an
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, and an animated picture nominated for a Hugo Award.


Dramatisations


Film and television

* The 1967 short animated film ''
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'' was the first film production of ''The Hobbit''. It was directed by Gene Deitch in
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. American film producer William L. Snyder obtained the rights to the novel from the Tolkien estate very cheaply while it was still largely unknown, with the proviso that he produce a "full-colour film" by 30 June 1966, and immediately set about producing a feature-length film, with a screenplay by Deitch. The project fell through, but after the explosion in the novel's popularity, Snyder realized that his contract had not required the film to be of any length: he, therefore, instructed Deitch to create a 12-minute film based on his earlier work so that he could retain his rights. He later sold the rights for around $100,000 (not adjusted for
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). The final project has very little to do with the source material. * ''
The Hobbit ''The Hobbit, or There and Back Again'' is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the ''N ...
'', an
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version of the story produced by
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, debuted as a
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in the United States in 1977. Romeo Muller won a Peabody Award for the teleplay. The film was also nominated for the
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, but lost to '' Star Wars''. * The
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children's television series '' Jackanory'', for its 3000th programme, presented an adaptation of ''The Hobbit'' in 1979. It was narrated by
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and David Wood. According to Wood, the release of the production on video has been repeatedly stopped by the
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. * A Soviet 1985 television play '' Сказочное путешествие мистера Бильбо Беггинса Хоббита'' ("The Fantastic Journey of the Hobbit Mr. Bilbo Baggins") aired on the Leningrad TV Channel. * A 1991 unreleased Soviet-Russian cartoo
''Treasures under the mountain''
by Argus International studio (with English subtitles) * A live-action film version was announced on 18 December 2007, to be co-produced by
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and
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, and produced by ''
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Peter Jackson. The narrative of the film was expanded and split over two parts. Guillermo del Toro was originally signed on to direct both parts but withdrew from the project in May 2010, leaving Jackson as director. It was announced on 22 October 2010, after months of speculation, that
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would play Bilbo Baggins. The casting had been uncertain due to the unexpected success of the summer BBC adaptation of ''Sherlock'' and Freeman's subsequent filming commitments for the second series. Filming began on 21 March 2011. The adaptation includes a new character that did not appear in the original book,
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, who is the head of the Elven guard, and played by
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."Evangeline Lilly Reveals Her Fears About Her ‘Hobbit’ Character"
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'', 3 October 2011. On 30 July 2012, Jackson revealed that there would be a third Hobbit film due to there being so much unused material from Tolkien's novel and appendices. The third and final film in the Hobbit series was released in December 2014. * The Finnish live-action television miniseries ''
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'', from 1993, is an adaptation of ''The Lord of the Rings'' rather than ''
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'' (although it shows a flashback to Bilbo's encounter with Gollum). The name, literally "The Hobbits", reflects the fact that it follows only the storyline of Frodo and Sam (large battles and other events were beyond the means of the relatively simple TV series).


Radio

* A
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series ''
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''
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is an adaptation by
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, broadcast in eight parts (four total hours) from September to November 1968. It starred Anthony Jackson as narrator,
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as Bilbo and
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as
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. The series was released on audio cassette in 1988 and on CD in 1997.Bramlett, Perry C. ''I Am in Fact a Hobbit: An Introduction to the Life and Works of J. R. R. Tolkien'', Mercer University Press, 2003 p. 239 * The American radio theatre company The Mind's Eye produced an audio adaptation of ''The Hobbit'' which was broadcast on
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in 1980 and released on six one-hour audio cassettes. * ''Hobbitten eller Ud og hjem igen'', a Danish language reading by Ove Sprogøe for
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produced in the late 1970s. Music by Bo Hansson and
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. * ''Der Hobbit'', a German language radio drama was produced in 1980 by
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. Voice actors included
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as narrator, Horst Bollmann as Bilbo,
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as Gandalf, and Jürgen von Manger as Gollum. *''Hobit aneb Cesta tam a zase zpátky'', a Czech language 3-part radio drama produced in 1996 by Český rozhlas. Voice actors included Lubomír Lipský,
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, and many others. Script by Eva Košlerová, music by Petr Mandel, dramaturgy Ivan Hubač, directed by Jiří Horčička. * ''Hobbitten'', a Danish language retelling by Rune T. Kidde produced for
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in 1998. Music by
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, Sorten Muld and Kim Skovbye. * A BBC Radio 5 series The Hobbit radio drama is an 15 part adaptation abridged by Brian Sibley, produced by Dickon Reed and read by
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, first broadcast Monday 6th Jan 1992, 19:15 on Radio 5. Transmitted again on 4th Mar 1997 00:30, for
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The Late Book.


Recordings

* The
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, which produces recorded books exclusively for use by the blind or physically handicapped, has produced three recordings of ''The Hobbit''. The first was on
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and read by Alan Haines. The second was on 4-track tape and read by Bob Askey in 1978. The third and most recent was on
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and read by Carole Jordan Stewart in 2001. The readings by Askey and Stewart are available for digital download by Library of Congress patrons. *
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played over 20 different characters, each with a unique voice, in an adaptation directed by Harely Usill. Music by R.J. Stewart. This performance was released on four LP records in 1974 by
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. *
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performed an unabridged reading of ''The Hobbit'', for
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in 1990. It contains original music composed by Inglis and music written by Tolkien himself, and Claudia Howard of Recorded Books. *
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performed an abridged recording of ''The Hobbit'' in 1993 for
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. *
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, who played
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in Peter Jackson's movie versions of ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'', read and performed ''The Hobbit'' during the
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and raised more than £283,000 ($351,000) for charities
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and Best Beginnings. He called it "The Hobbitathon". Serkis then recorded a professional audiobook of the story for
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and Recorded Books.


Stage productions and musicals

* The first authorized adaptation of ''The Hobbit'' appeared in March 1953, a stage production by St. Margaret's School, Edinburgh. * A musical production, ''The Hobbit'', was staged in 1967 at New College School in
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. It was scripted by
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, set to music by Paul Drayton and performed by members of the New College School choir. Among the cast were
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and Martin Pickard. The audience included a young Howard Goodall and, on the last night, Tolkien himself. * In 1968, J. R. R. Tolkien authorized playwright Patricia Gray's adaptation for the stage. This dramatization makes changes to the original plot, removing sections and giving Thorin the role of dragon-slayer, amongst other deviations. Many productions of this version have been performed up to the present day. * In 1972, ''The Hobbit'' was adapted by playwright Ruth Perry into "The Hobbit: a Musical", with score and lyrics by composer Allan Jay Friedman and lyricist David Rogers respectively. This musical was distributed by The Dramatic Publishing Company. *
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adapted and performed a one-man theatre play of ''The Hobbit''. This performance led to him being asked to record the unabridged audio-book for ''The Lord of the Rings'' in 1990. A year later, he read the unabridged version of ''The Hobbit''. * The
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commissioned playwright Kim Selody to adapt ''The Hobbit''. His version premiered there in 1999. The play is only licensed to be performed in Canada. Various productions have been reviewed as being "whimsical, wild and not too scary" and "not really that exciting". *Christine Anketell produced a puppetry version that toured Australia in 1997 and again in 2000. The production featured 82 stringless
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-style puppets that took about 6,000 hours to make. They were manipulated by 11 puppeteers, with Gandalf played by an actor in full costume.


Games and toys


Board, war and role-playing games

''The Hobbit'' has been the subject of several games of various kinds. * In the 1970s,
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released two editions of a war game based on ''The Battle of Five Armies'', designed by Larry Smith, using cardboard tokens and a map of the area around the Lonely Mountain as the setting. The game was criticized for a lack of clarity in the rules, and praised for evoking the onslaught of the Warg and goblin army. *
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has produced several games based on ''The Hobbit'': ** Coleman Charlon designed '' The Lonely Mountain'' (released in 1985), which features groups of adventurers entering Smaug's Lair to capture his treasure before he awakens. **Also in 1985, Iron Crown Enterprises released its version of ''The Battle of Five Armies'', developed by Richard H. Britton, Coleman Charlton, and John Crowell, again taking the theme of a war game and using card counters and a paper map. ** ''The Hobbit Adventure Boardgame'' was the last game from Iron Crown-based directly on ''The Hobbit''. They continued to publish the Middle-earth Role Playing Game, a game licensed on both ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'' properties, combining elements from both works. * ''The Hobbit: The Defeat of Smaug'', also known as ''The Hobbit: The Defeat of the Evil Dragon Smaug'', was published in 2001 by
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in which players move their hobbits toward the
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. * '' Middle-earth Strategic Gaming'' (formerly ''Middle-earth Play-by-Mail''), which has won several Origin Awards, uses the ''Battle of Five Armies'' as an introductory scenario to the full game and includes characters and armies from the book. * In 2005, Games Workshop released a ''Battle of Five Armies'' tabletop wargame, designed by
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using highly detailed 10-millimetre figures sculpted by Mark Harrison, based on Games Workshop's ''
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'' rules and designed to be played in a small space suitable for the home gamer. Games Workshop also is expanding its Lord of the Rings: The Strategy Battle Game in the form of The Hobbit: The Strategy Battle Game. * In 2011, British game publisher
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released ''The One Ring - Adventures over the Edge of the Wild'', a role-playing game set several years after the events of ''The Hobbit''. Supplements so far include ''Tales from Wilderland'' and ''The Loremaster's Screen and Lake-town'', with others scheduled for release in 2013.


Toys and collectibles

* Lego has released brick sets and minifigures titled Lego ''The Hobbit'' as part of Jackson's ''Hobbit'' film series franchise. * In June 2012, Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Weta Workshop announced they would offer a "range of authentic prop replicas, collectibles and merchandise based on the upcoming films" in October 2012.


Video games

Several computer and video games, both licensed and unlicensed, have been based on the story. * ''
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'', an award-winning computer game developed in 1982 by
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and published by Melbourne House with compatibility for most computers available at the time. A copy of the novel was included in each game package to encourage players to engage the text, since ideas for gameplay could be found therein. Likewise, the game does not attempt to re-tell the story, but rather sits alongside it, using the narrative to both structure and motivate gameplay. The game won the Golden Joystick Award for Strategy Game of the Year in 1983 and was responsible for popularizing the phrase, "Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold." * In 2003,
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published a
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with action-RPG elements titled ''
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, PlayStation 2,
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PCs, and
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. A version, based on the same character design and story, but using a 2D isometric platform and using 3D characters which were pre-rendered using models from the console version, was also published for the
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. *In 2014,
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published an action-adventure game titled '' Lego The Hobbit'', based on the Lego theme set which itself is based on the Peter Jackson's film series.


Graphic media and literature


Graphic media

* Fleetway Publications published a fifteen-part illustrated, abridged version of ''
The Hobbit ''The Hobbit, or There and Back Again'' is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the ''N ...
'' in ''Princess and Girl'' magazine in the United Kingdom. The story was published on a weekly basis between 10 October 1964 and 16 January 1965, with each instalment accompanied by five or six illustrations by artist Ferguson Dewar. * In 1989,
Eclipse Comics Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel intended for the newly created comic book specialty store market. It was ...
published a three-part
comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
adaptation with a script by Chuck Dixon and Sean Deming, and illustrations by
David Wenzel David T. Wenzel (; born November 22, 1950) is an illustrator and children's book artist. He is best known for his graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Hobbit''. Career Wenzel's first ambition had been to work for one of the big ani ...
. **
Unwin Paperbacks George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co. It went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century and to establish an ...
released a one-volume edition in 1990, with cover artwork by the original illustrator David Wenzel. **
Del Rey Books Del Rey Books is a branch of Ballantine Books, which is owned by Random House and, in turn, by Penguin Random House. It is a separate imprint established in 1977 under the editorship of author Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey. It ...
released a reprint collected in one volume in 2001. Its cover, illustrated by
Donato Giancola Donato Giancola is an American artist specializing in narrative realism with science fiction and fantasy content. Biography Donato Giancola was born and raised in Colchester, near Burlington, in the state of Vermont. He currently resides in Bro ...
, was awarded the Association of Science Fiction Artists Award for Best Cover Illustration in 2002. * In 1998, the Royal Mail of Great Britain released a commemorative
postage stamp A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the f ...
, illustrated by Peter Malone, in a series entitled ''Magical Worlds: Fantasy Books for Children''.


Novels

* '' The Soddit or Let's Cash in Again'' is a 2003 parody written by Adam Roberts.html" ;"title="A.R.R.R."Roberts">A.R.R.R."Roberts. The book consists of primarily slapstick-style jokes, with characters names slightly modified from the original (for example, Bingo as opposed to Bilbo) and a slightly altered storyline. As the book progresses, the story departs further and further from the original storyline that it parodies.


Music

*
Leonard Nimoy Leonard Simon Nimoy (; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, famed for playing Spock in the '' Star Trek'' franchise for almost 50 years. This includes originating Spock in the original ''Star Trek'' series in 1966, th ...
sang a jaunty ditty about ''The Hobbit'' titled " The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins". The recording originally appeared on the album ''The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy'', released in 1968. A music video accompanied it, featuring sand dunes and dancing girls. *Paul Corfield Godfrey, who has written a large amount of music based on Tolkien with the permission of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins Publishers, wrote a full-length opera on ''The Hobbit'' during the years 1971-1976. The work divides into two parts entitled "Over Hill and Under Hill" and "Fire and Water", but the score of the second part only survives in fragments. Two orchestral suites were extracted from the work; the first of these was performed in London in 1971. *German power metal band
Blind Guardian Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in 1984 in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres.Somewhere Far Beyond ''Somewhere Far Beyond'' is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Blind Guardian. It was released in 1992 and produced by Kalle Trapp. The cover artwork was created by Andreas Marschall, who also drew the artwork for other Blind Gu ...
'', the song "The Bard's Song - The Hobbit" tells part of the story of The Hobbit. * In 2001, Marjo Kuusela produced the ballet ''Hobitti'' (''The Hobbit'' in
Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...
) with music by
Aulis Sallinen Aulis Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen ...
for the
Finnish National Opera The Finnish National Opera and Ballet ( fi, Suomen Kansallisooppera ja -baletti; sv, Finlands Nationalopera och -balett) is a Finnish opera company and ballet company based in Helsinki. It is headquartered in the Opera House on the coast of the T ...
. * Dean Burry was commissioned by the
Canadian Children's Opera Chorus The Canadian Children's Opera Company (formerly the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, CCOC) is a large choral group based in Toronto. The company consists of five divisions of approximately 240 boys and girls aged 6 to 19. The Principal Chorus ha ...
to write an operatic version of the story for piano and choir to be performed in 2004. The performance rights were subsequently locked up by Tolkien Enterprises before being released in 2006. The Sarasota Youth Opera of the
Sarasota Opera Sarasota Opera is a professional opera company in Sarasota, Florida, USA, which was founded as the Asolo Opera Guild and, until 1974, presented a visiting company's productions. Between 1974 and 1979, it set about mounting its own productions in t ...
then requested full orchestration. With that and some revisions by the composer, the second version premiered on 9 and 10 May 2008 in the United States and was conducted by Lance Inouye.Dean Burry, ''The Hobbit in Sarasota'', April 2007
Retrieved 17 February 2007


References

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