What if TOLKIEN Never Invented HOBBITS?

If it wasn't for the Snergs, a fantasy race portrayed by E.A. Wyke-Smith in his 1927 children's fantasy The Marvellous Land of Snergs, Tolkien might not have hit on the idea of the Hobbits. Without the breakthrough, crossover success of The Hobbit, you don't get Tolkien's publisher demanding a sequel, which eventually led to The Lord of the Rings. What would our fantasy landscape look like today without The Lord of the Rings? Without Hobbits? Check out my books! THE MUCK, out now! A horror-thriller set in an abandoned chemical plant converted into an AI data center in the Blue Ridge Mountains: https://amzn.to/4apfXd4 DIG TWO GRAVES, a noir revenge thriller: https://amzn.to/49Tl70M MIRRENWOOD, a fantasy about the hunt for a unicorn (I'm presently finishing the sequel): https://amzn.to/4a3lcxV AMBA, an action-adventure thriller set in the Russian Far East, about Siberian tigers: https://amzn.to/3DQieAv Visit my website: andrewhallman.com There you can subscribe to my free weekly email newsletter, where I'll keep you posted on new videos, new books, and new adventures. For 25 years I worked as a cataloguer for the pre-eminent rare book dealer in North America, and on this channel I feature the books that struck me--and have stuck with me--from that period. From underappreciated cult classics, to neglected masterpieces, to curious oddities, to the downright wtf, I turn the spotlight on books the algorithm might not bother to show you. Subscribe for more!