The History of the HobbitIn one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J. R. R. Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself. For the first time in one volume, The History of the Hobbit presents the complete unpublished text of the original manuscript of J. R. R. Tolkiens The Hobbit, accompanied by John Rateliff's