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Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato
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The Hobbit and the Silmarillion
The Silmarillion and The Hobbit became popular because they both had good stories that were rooted in ancient texts. Both of them loved ancient Greek and Latin and Anglo-Sax. And so they kept telling them and told modern versions of them. So those stories will continue to be right. In the marketplace of literature, we can see that they are continuing to be read and published.
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