While it is fun to spend sometime researching the topic that I have chosen, J.R.R. Tolkien, I found it difficult to make concrete connections regarding what I had chosen to talk about. For example, there is nothing concrete out there that says that Tolkien wrote this book so that people could escape the reality of the Great Depression, but this happened, whether he intended it or not. I personally believe that The Hobbit wasn’t intentionally aimed at allowing people to escape reality; however, the timing of the release and the content made it easy for people to turn to. But this isn’t fact, its speculation, backed by facts for sure. Tolkien never expected his novel to take off so quickly and absolutely, and by adults, not just children,
