We have recently sold an old book about the Hobbit that is supposed to accompany a 45 RPM vinyl record or cassette tape so children can "read along". But all we have is the somewhat charming book. It was  is on sale at the My-Lynx Associates store. They made a video cartoon of the Hobbit back in the 70s but we never saw it. These look like drawings that probably came from the film / video.

This is a more humble Bilbo, back in the days when he was more like a modified fairy tale and not the beginning of a tale of ultimate good of evil in titanic struggle as many know the Ring books that followed. He is perusing a tome in his bare feet (as we remember the legend, hobbits did not wear shoes) while smoking his trusty pipe with a cauldron cooking in the nearby fireplace.

That is how we like to spend our evenings here at My-Lynx Associates headquarters. We have plans all set out about how we could move into a subterranean home with a circular door that would poke out of a grassy knoll with a few windows on the side to let in the sunlight. We might have a hubbly-bubbly with some bubble juice nearby, but we have forsworn tobacco for the rest of this lifetime, unless it is one of those mist-maker type pipes that the young-folks use. We could use it to inhale some kind of special long-life tonic.



And here is how the story ends: "So the people of Laketown were saved, and the Dwarves regained their home and their treasure. And Bilbo returned to his nice quiet Hobbit hole. Every now and again he would recall his part in the adventure. It had given him bravery, treasure, and a magic ring. Gandalf had been right. Bilbo had had an adventure - one he would never forget."