Corey Olsen
A companion volume to one of the most widely read books of the 20th century, professor Corey Olsen's Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25.00) takes readers on an in-depth journey through The Hobbit chapter by chapter, revealing the stories within the story: the dark desires of dwarves and the sublime laughter of elves, the nature of evil and its hopelessness, the mystery of divine providence and human choice, and, most of all, the transformation within the life of Bilbo Baggins. President and founder of the Mythgard Institute, a new online teaching center for the study of Tolkien and other works of imaginative literature.
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