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He later admitted that at the time, he did not even know what a "hobbit" was. This single sentence on a scrap of paper eventually grew into The Hobbit (published in 1937) and laid the foundation for the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. Other Notable Tolkien "Papers"

If you are looking for academic or physical papers related to his work, here are several key examples: How Tolkien Turned Boredom into a Bestseller Tolkien

The most famous "paper" associated with J.R.R. Tolkien is the that sparked the creation of The Hobbit . In the early 1930s, while performing the "laborious" and "boring" task of grading student examinations at Oxford, Tolkien found a page left completely blank. Struck by a sudden flash of inspiration, he scribbled the now-iconic opening line: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." He later admitted that at the time, he