Tolkien

Question 1

While at Oxford, he formed a lifelong friendship with the writer C.S. Lewis and began working on The Hobbit, at first as a tale for his own children; it was eventually published in 1937.

Answer 1

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Question 2

Tolkien told the poet that the Hobbit was “unhappily meant” as a children’s story and that it contained some of the “silliness” of certain children’s books he had read in his childhood.

Answer 2

The Hobbit as Children’s literature