Many letters have shapes also found in the historical futhorc runes ( used in The Hobbit ), but their sound values are dissimilar.

Tolkien had authorized a paperback edition of The Hobbit in 1961, though that edition was never made available outside the U. K.

It was also available on some non-IBM compatible machines such as Motorola 68k-based Apollo ( 68020 ) and Amiga 3000 ( 68030 ) workstations, the short-lived AT & T Hobbit and later PowerPC based BeBox.

On first publication in October 1937, The Hobbit was met with almost unanimously favourable reviews from publications both in the UK and the US, including The Times, Catholic World and The New York Post.

The Hobbit was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction of the year ( 1938 ).

Commentators such as Paul Kocher, John D. Rateliff and C. W. Sullivan encourage readers to treat the works separately, both because The Hobbit was conceived, published, and received independently of the later work, and also to prevent the reader from having false expectations of tone and style dashed.

The first motion picture adaptation of The Hobbit, a 12-minute film of cartoon stills, was commissioned from Gene Deitch by William L. Snyder in 1966, as related by Deitch himself.

The BBC Radio 4 series The Hobbit radio drama was an adaptation by Michael Kilgarriff, broadcast in eight parts ( four hours in total ) from September to November 1968.

One of the most successful was The Hobbit, an award-winning computer game published in 1982 by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House with compatibility for most computers available at the time.

The first film to be filmed at 48 FPS was The Hobbit, a decision made by its director Peter Jackson.

A soundtrack for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was composed by Craig Russell for the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony.

These events occurred some 150 years before the events of The Hobbit, and Smaug was already centuries old at the time.

" This theft of a cup, Smaug's knowledge of every item in the hoard, and the dragon's ensuing rampage all echo the story of Beowulf, on which Tolkien was a noted expert and which he described as one of his " most valued sources " for The Hobbit.

Death of Smaug was used for the cover of an early UK paperback edition of The Hobbit.

In the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, Smaug was voiced by Richard Boone.

Smaug will appear in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, and on 16 June 2011, it was announced that he will be voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Tolkien's map shown in The Hobbit depicts the mountain as having six ridges stretching out from a central peak that was snowcapped well into Spring.

Tolkien believed he had invented the word " hobbit " when he began writing The Hobbit ( it was revealed years after his death that the word predated Tolkien's usage, though with a different meaning ).

The Hobbits of the Shire developed the custom of giving away gifts on their birthdays, instead of receiving them, although this custom was not universally followed among other Hobbit cultures or communities.

" Stealing like a Hobbit " is the name of a parody song, by Luke Sienkowski, that was most requested in 2003 on the Dr. Demento Show.

In the 1968 BBC Radio serialization of The Hobbit, Bilbo was played by Paul Daneman.

In the 1977 Rankin / Bass animated version of The Hobbit, Bilbo was voiced by Orson Bean.

The role of anchors was played by the Great River of the Wilderland from The Hobbit, which now was stated to pass through Osgiliath, by Mordor just to the east of Minas Ithil, by the " land of the Horse-lords " conceived of some time before and now neighbouring Ond, and by the " Black Mountains ", precursors of the White.

In addition to providing the illustrations for her own Moomin books, Jansson also illustrated Swedish translations of classics such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( some used later in Finnish translations as well ).

They are used in The Hobbit in a few names like Elrond or Bolg, in The Lord of the Rings for names ( like Galadriel or Aragorn ) and several poems (" Namárië "), and in The Silmarillion almost all names, including the title and a few sentences,

While neither of these appeared in the original printing of The Hobbit due to cost constraints both have been included in subsequent editions and Conversation with Smaug has been used extensively.

Tolkien took the names of twelve of the thirteen dwarves he used in The Hobbit ( and Gandalf's name as well ) from Völuspá.

Sting was a magical weapon used by Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.

The Necromancer was a pseudonym used by Tolkien in The Hobbit for the character Sauron.

The word " goblin " is used to represent the original Hobbit Orc.

The original edition of The Hobbit and early drafts of The Lord of the Rings first used goblin everywhere and used hobgoblin for larger, more evil goblins.

Whilst investigating possible sources for the word " Hobbit " Tolkien realised he had made a mistake in using hob -, which is traditionally used to mean a smaller entity, not a larger one.

They could speak, and used a debased form of Westron ( rendered into Cockney English in The Hobbit ).

Tolkien used Boffin as a surname for the Boffin family in The Hobbit ( 1937 ), and a Sergeant Boffin in appears in Mr. Bliss ( written circa 1932 ).

* Hobbit ( unit ), a unit of volume or weight formerly used in Wales

It is also being used for filming of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy prequel films The Hobbit, also directed by Peter Jackson.

Reports noted the condition of the returned remains ; " long, deep cuts marking the lower edge of the Hobbit's jaw on both sides, said to be caused by a knife used to cut away the rubber mould "; " the chin of a second Hobbit jaw was snapped off and glued back together.

* Hobbit ( unit ), a unit of weight or volume formerly used in Wales

The C Machine, and the CRISP and Hobbit that followed, directly supported the types of memory access that programming languages used and was optimized for running the C programming language.

Hobbit was also used in the earliest ( unreleased ) versions of the BeBox.

Tolkien's The Hobbit, the term " fairy tale " was still being used.

The last of ten story titles Ellison had kept on his desk for years, " The Chocolate Alphabet " was used ( and expanded to its present title ) when Ellison wrote the story in the window of a Los Angeles science fiction bookshop, A Change of Hobbit.