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The Hobbit changed an escape scene after the book was on sale

In the first version of the fantasy book The Hobbit, the creature Gollum helps the hero, Bilbo, leave a cave after a riddle game.

While writing the next book, The Lord of the Rings, author J.R.R. Tolkien made Bilbo’s magic ring more dangerous. He changed the earlier scene: Gollum chases Bilbo, who turns invisible to escape.

The new chapter appeared in 1951. The later story had changed the earlier book.

Source: theonering.net

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