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The Hobbit Magic

Perhaps the author most beloved of Net surfers is J.R.R. Tolkien, whose Lord of the Rings has just been voted "the book of the century" in a British poll. There are literally hundreds of home pages devoted to Middle-Earth, the mythical world which Tolkien created, peopled, nurtured. A good place to start is The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page at http:\\ www .csclub.uwaterloo.ca /u/relipper/tolkien /root -page. html. From here you can go on to numerous home pages covering almost every-thing Tolkien ever did, and everything other people did about Tolkien. Available, for instance, is a huge collection of images done by artists across the world on Tolkien’s stories, a collection of fonts that enthusiasts have developed based on the Master’s attempts. Every detail has been examined, explained, extrapolated. There’s even the Lord’s Prayer in Queny a, if you search for it, and the Lord of the Rings rap: Now, here’s a little story I have to tell/ ‘Bout four bad hobbits you love so wel l. Depending on how big a Tolkien freak you are, you can have hours, days or months of fun.

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