Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy recounts the adventurous life of Bilbo Baggins, which he writes about to his nephew, Frodo.

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Intrigued by that idea, Hambley and Feron applied for and received a $4,000 grant to publish a book about the Revolutionary ...