The Riddles of The Hobbit by Adam Roberts

Author:Adam Roberts [Roberts, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

The story of The Lord of the Rings is that even ‘the little people’ (which is to say: people like you and me) have their part to play in the great historical and martial dramas of the age; and it is a potent and truthful story, well told. But The Hobbit is that story only in its second iteration. In its first The Hobbit is not about the great dramas of the age; it is about us-sized dramas of people being taken out of their comfort zone and whisked away by Story.

I am happy that there are two versions of The Hobbit, and feel no desire to try and force them into some notional procrustean ‘coherence’. Only narrative fundamentalists, the textual Taliban, believe that all stories must be brought into that sort of rigid alignment. But of the two stories, really I prefer the one (homely, funny, a little bit slapstick and a little bit wondrous) over the other (grand-verging-on-grandiose, theological, epic and strenuously, to coin a phrase, eutragic). Although I do love them both. And I love the Dwarves vastly more than any number of elves. I love precisely their lack of graceful elegance. Thorin Oakenshield has some noble speeches in The Hobbit it is true; but his Dwarves are better at stuffing themselves with food and drink, and getting (with endearing incompetence) into ridiculous scrapes.

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