Mentions Across Episodes
“The Hobbit is famously, Tolkien starts writing it in the early 1920s when he's marking school certificate papers after he's come home from the First World War.”
“This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of the hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable.”
“The speaker recalls reading The Hobbit as a child and how it became enshrined in their mind as the best book they had ever read.”
“Mentioned in relation to William Morris's trip to Iceland and his obsession with Norse myths, leading to Tolkien's works.”
“Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.”
“He was not particularly gifted in leadership, according to his teachers, but he moved confidently among his peers and articulately extolled the virtues of the novel he was reading at the time, which is The Hobbit by Tolkien.”