The first edition of “The Hobbit” was sold for a record sum – BBC Russian

• June 5, 2015

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The book was published in 1937 and was a huge success.

The first edition of John. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” 1937, a recording made in Elvish language by the writer was sold at auction in London for 137 thousand. pounds (about 210 thousand. dollars).

Thus was Podithou previous auction record of 2008, when the book writer was sold for 60 thousand. pounds.

Tolkien himself in 1920 years. presented the book Katherine (Kitty) Kilbride, one of his students at the University of Leeds, the initiation Elvish writing.

Poems in Elvish – an excerpt from chapter 12-volume “History of Middle-earth”.

They Hobbit Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit, and “one ring “around which is built the main storyline of the trilogy” The Lord of the Rings “.

The house Sotheby’s hoped that an auction of children’s illustrated edition of the book will be sold for 70 thousand. pounds.