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   From: fred@fred.com   
      
   Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > I cannot but wonder if Tolkien wouldn't have solved the riddle in a   
   > different way -- I am sorry that his test readers advised him to stop   
   > his efforts to rewrite /The Hobbit/ in 1960 -- the result might not   
   > have been /The Hobbit/ that they knew, but I think it is likely to   
   > have become a better book, more in line with its sequel.   
   >   
      
   Isn't that why we are now getting three movies?   
      
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