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| #=319
| to=[[Roger Lancelyn Green]]
| date=[[1971#January|January 8]], [[1971]]
| subject=Putting the word "hobbit" into the dictionary
}}{{letter|319}}
==Summary==
The ''[[Wikipedia: Oxford English Dictionary|Oxford English Dictionary]]'' had proposed to put the word "hobbit" into a new supplement. Tolkien stated that he had to justify his claim to having invented the word. His claim rested upon his unsupported assertion that when he invented it he did not know ''then'' of any prior instance or near-instance. Citing words beginning with ''hob-'', Tolkien noted that his statement that ''[[hobgoblins]]'' were "a larger kind" was a reverse of the truth. The only word that had an influence was "hole"; the trolls' use of "rabbit" was merely an insult.

Tolkien said that doubt on the word's origin was cast back in 1938 when a review in ''The Observer'', signed "Habit", claimed that the word had been used in an old "fairy story" 20 years earlier. Neither asking for information from the reviewer nor extensive research had uncovered this prior instance. Tolkien ended by saying, "Oh what a tangled web we weave who try a new word to conceive!"
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Letter 319 - Revision history

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