It brings to mind how Bilbo is still attempting to justify how he got the Ring many years after the wizard had already 'badgered' him into telling 'the truth' ( FR 1.i.33) and Gandalf called the lies Bilbo and Gollum told about how they came by the Ring 'too much alike for comfort' (1.ii.48). 'Not necessarily "truer" ' is a fascinating comment, which suggests that some doubt may attach even to the second version. As Tolkien wrote with silken understatement on his proposed revisions in 1947, the year he submitted them to Allen and Unwin, ' if The Hobbit ran so the Sequel would be a little easier to as a narrative (in Ch, II ), though not necessarily "truer".' (Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit, 732).
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