"Hobbit Dinner" in Rotterdam

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The "Hobbit Dinner" in Rotterdam refers to an event in which J.R.R. Tolkien participated on 28 March 1958. Tolkien had been invited to Rotterdam for a "Hobbit Dinner" by his Dutch publisher and a bookseller.[1]

In 1993, an audio recording of the speech held by Tolkien at the dinner was discovered by René van Rossenberg. An excerpt of the recording was released in 2014.[1]

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