The History of The Hobbit: Mr Baggins and Return to Bag-End

The History of The Hobbit: Mr Baggins and Return to Bag-End is a study of J.R.R. Tolkien’s , published by HarperCollins in 2007 in the U.K., and then in the United States by Houghton Mifflin. This two-volume work contains Tolkien’s previously unpublished original drafts of the novel, along with commentary by John D. Rateliff.http://www.forodrim.org/arda/tbchron.html It also details Tolkien’s various revisions to The Hobbit, including abandoned revisions for the unpublished third edition of the work, intended for 1960, as well as previously unpublished original maps and illustrations drawn by Tolkien himself.http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/historyofthehobbit2.htm
A boxed set combining The Hobbit with The History of The Hobbit was released on October 26, 2007.
== Division ==
The first volume is entitled The History of The Hobbit: Volume I: Mr. Baggins. This contains the first half of Tolkien’s draft material for The Hobbit, along with commentary. This volume was published in the UK May 4, 2007. The second volume, Return to Bag-End, contains the last half of Tolkien’s original manuscript draft, with commentary, as well as later drafts and appendices. This volume was published in the UK in July, 2007.
Both volumes were released in the United States on September 21, 2007, and a single volume edition was released on October 27, 2011 under the name The History of The Hobbit: Mr Baggins and Return to Bag-End.
== Relation to The History of Middle-earth ==
When Christopher Tolkien began publishing , a twelve-volume series documenting J.R.R. Tolkien’s creative writing process in the creation of Middle-earth, with texts dating from the 1920's to the 1970's, he made a conscious decision not to include a volume detailing the creation of The Hobbit, as the novel was initially independent of Tolkien's growing legendarium, designed to be only a children's tale.
The task of making a study of The Hobbit fell to linguist Taum Santoski in the 1980's. Santoski had connections to the Marquette University collection of Tolkien material, where the original manuscripts reside. He died in 1991, and then the task was passed to John D. Rateliff. Though Christopher Tolkien did not work directly on The History of The Hobbit, the work is of a similar vein to the "literary archaeology" of The History of Middle-earth.http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/booksbytolkien/historyofme/description.htm Rateliff eventually submitted a finished draft of the book, and Christopher Tolkien approved of it.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Die Geskiedenis van die Hobbit
Albanian 	Historia e Hobbit
Amharic 	ሆቢት ያለው ታሪክ
Arabic 	التاريخ من الهوبيت
Armenian 	Պատմություն Հոբիթ
Azerbaijani 	Hobbit tarixi
Basque 	Hobbita Historia
Belarusian Cyrillic	Гісторыя Хобіт
Bengali 	হবিট ইতিহাস
Bosnian 	Povijest hobita
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Историята на Хобитът
Catalan 	La Història del Hòbbit
Cebuano 	Ang Kasaysayan sa Ang Hobbit
Chinese 	霍比特人的歷史
Croatian 	Povijest Hobita
Czech 	Historie hobit
Danish 	Historien om Hobbit
Dutch 	De Geschiedenis van de Hobbit
Esperanto 	La Historio de La Hobito
Estonian 	Kääbik ajalugu
Fijian 	Na Itukutuku makawa ni na Hobbit
Filipino 	Ang Kasaysayan ng mga Hobbit
Finnish 	Hobitti historia
French 	L'histoire du Hobbit
Frisian 	De Skiednis fan De Hobbi
Galician 	A Historia de O Hobbit
Georgian 	ჰობიტის ისტორია
German 	Die Geschichte von Der Hobbit
Greek 	Η Ιστορία του Χόμπιτ
Gujarati 	લિખિત ઇતિહાસ લિખિત ?
Haitian Creole 	Istwa a la nan A Hobbit
Hausa 	Da Tarihin na Hobbit
Hawaiian 	Ka Moʻolelo o ka Hobbit
Hebrew 	ההיסטוריה של ההוביט
Hindi 	द हॉबबिट का इतिहास
Hmong 	Keeb kwm ntawm lub Hobbit
Hungarian 	A Hobbit története
Icelandic 	Saga Hobbitinn
Indonesian 	Sejarah Hobbit
Irish Gaelic 	An Stair Na An Hobbit
Italian 	La Storia de Lo Hobbit
Japanese 	ホビットの歴史
Kannada 	ದಿ ಹಿಸ್ಟರಿ ಆಫ್ ದಿ ಹೊಬ್ಬಿಟ್
Kazakh 	Хоббиттер тарихы (Cyrillic) Xobbïtter tarïxı (Latin)
Korean 	호 빗의 역사
Kurdish 	Di Dîrokê de ji Hobbîto (Kurmanji Kurdish)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Hоббит тарыхы
Laotian 	ປະຫວັດສາດຂອງການຮອບບິດ
Latin 	Historia Hobbitus Ille
Latvian 	Hobbit vēsture
Lithuanian 	Hobitai istorija
Luxembourgish 	D'Geschicht vun Der Hobbit
Macedonian Cyrillic	Историја на Хобитот
Maori 	Te Aamu o Te Hobbit
Malagasy 	Ny Tantaran' Ny Hobbit
Malaysian 	Sejarah Hobbit
Malayalam 	ചരിത്രം ദ ഹോബിറ്റ്
Maltese 	L-Istorja tal-Hobbit
Marathi 	होब्बित इतिहास
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Hоббит түүх
Nepalese 	यो होब्बित को इतिहास
Norwegian 	Historien om Hobbiten
Pashto 	د تاریخ د حوببیت
Persian 	تاریخ هابیت
Polish 	Historia Hobbita
Portuguese 	A História de O Hobbit
Punjabi 	ਹੋਬਿਟ ਦਾ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ
Romanian 	Istoria Hobbitului
Russian 	История „Хоббита
Samoan 	Le Talafaasolopito o le Hobbit
Scottish Gaelic 	Eachdraidh nan An Hàbad
Serbian 	Историја Хобита (Cyrillic) Istorija Hobita (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ද හොබිට්: ඉතිහාසය
Slovak 	História Hobit
Slovenian 	Zgodovina Hobit
Somalian 	Taariikhda ah Hobbit
Spanish 	La Historia de 'El Hobbit'
Sudanese 	Sajarah tina Nu Hobbit
Swahili 	Historia ya Hobbit
Swedish 	Historien om The Hobbit
Tahitian 	Te Aamu o te Hobbit
Tajik Cyrillic 	Таърихи Дар Ҳоббит
Tamil 	ஹாபிட் வரலாறு
Telugu 	చరిత్ర హాబిట్లో
Thai 	ประวัติของฮอบบิท
Turkish 	Hobbit tarihçesi
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Історія Хоббіта
Uzbek 	Ҳоббит тарихи (Cyrillic) Hobbit tarixi (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Lịch sử của người Hobbit
Welsh 	Hanes y Hobbit
Yiddish 	די געשיכטע פון די האָבביט
Yoruba 	Awọn Itan ti awọn Obiti
Yucatec Maya 	Le k'ajláayo' 'El Hobbit.
== References ==
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