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The History of the Hobbit - By: Fernando Bessega, 2009-02-26 As popularity grew publishers and fans alike began urging Tolkien to write a second book. As he began writing it wasn’t that long before Tolkien realized the need to revise the text of The Hobbit so it would properly integrate into a sequel. This also came at a time when Tolkien was in an ongoing piracy battle with US publishers and editing the text enabled him to copyright the book and end the COMMENTS Add a comment |