Hobbit; or, There and Back Again | Social Concerns
Like all of Tolkien's fiction, The Hobbit is set in a world distinctly apart from man's, a world of dragons and elves, dwarves and wizards. The book is an adventure story and makes no explicit attempt to deal with the political or social concerns of the day. Tolkien, in fact, vehemently rejected all attempts to read political or religious allegory into either his children's novel or the later and more serious works. In this he differed strongly from fellow Inklings C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams, whose fantasies frequently have an allegorical intent.
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