Tolkien, and English professor at the University of Leeds, was grading test papers during the summer of 1928 when he scribbled the words, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" on a student's blank answer sheet.
Today, The Hobbit - and the Lord of the Rings trilogy which Tolkien subsequently published - rank among the all-time most popular works of both literature and film.
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