Tolkien's the Hobbit

Tolkien says the hero is a philologist, one point in which he resembles me and has your name. So originally, his name was not ransom, but unwin, which is Stanley Unwin's name. The latter detail could, I'm sure, be altered. And then as we touched on last week, Tolkien goes on to conclude, we originally meant to write an excursionary thriller,. A space journey and a time journey, mine, each discovering myth.