Hobbit

Culture • Popular Culture

“The Hobbit” and Compassion (in an Increasingly Compassionless World)

“A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit In the opening chapter of his 1986 book Beyond Identity—one of those titles I consider a “must read”...