The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien, and its literary deployments

Abstract

The present article will show probable interpretations and questionings around a work well known between the contemporary generation, The Hobbit, of the writer, philologist, and English university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, written between the years 1937 and 1949. of literary types and genres that can "adapt" to the book, through the conceptualization of these genres and literary types, investigating its multiple facets, because when something is heard about this work, there is often some questioning about its textual and literary. To find possible answers to these questions, we will analyze the work and its development up to the present, through theories such as those of John Ronald Tolkien himself, Tzvetan Todorov, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who discuss Fantastic Literature with its creatures and magical scenarios, the juvenile literature, which brings the morality that some stories can present to young people and even adults, and mass culture, which mainly seeks to trade and profits through their products. These concepts to which we will try to associate the book. From these theoretical analyzes we will defend the idea that this text does not belong to only one of these categories, but it has elements belonging to each of them, thus becoming a multifaceted work in relation to the literary character.