A pristine written matter of J.R.R. Tolkien ’s novel The Hobbit has sold at auction for a record £ 137,000 ( just over $ 213,000 US ) , more than double the record for the previous record , sic in 2008 .
One intellect for the high cost ? Tolkien signed the copy for Katherine Kilbride , a student of Tolkien ’s in the 1920s .
Tolkien inscribed only a “ handful ” of presentation copy of The Hobbit on its publication , said Sotheby ’s , with CS Lewis also a recipient . Kilbride ’s include an inscription by the author in Old English , identified by John D Rateliff , source of The History of The Hobbit , as an extract from Tolkien ’s The Lost Road . This metre - traveling storey , in which the world of Númenor and Middle - earth were linked with the legends of many other times and peoples , was abandoned by the author incomplete .
Color us very , very jealous .
viaThe Guardian .
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