“Who will read 423 pages about an unfinished journey undertaken by mythical creatures with confusing names?” worried Houghton Mifflin editor Anne Barrett about a 1953 manuscript of Fellowship. “Probably no one, but I still say it is wonderful and – with my heart in my mouth – [worthy] to publish.” Such a quaint display of nerves to look back on, given Mifflin’s recent celebration of LOTR‘s 7th printing. With a million copies now in print, and the first of the three films still months away, readers are ringing in a Tolkien resurgence.
The Babylon Bee reads The Lord of the Rings: Chapter 8, Fog on the Barrow Downs
The Hobbits leave Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, and quickly encounter one of the most frightening sequences in The Lord of the Rings.
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