The hobbit habit / Joseph Mathewson -- The ring of evil / Isaac Asimov -- The gods return to earth / C.S. Lewis -- The dethronement of power / C.S. Lewis -- The hero is a hobbit / W.H. Auden -- At the end of the quest, victory / W.H. Auden -- Oo, those awful orcs! / Edmund Wilson -- Does Frodo live? / Janet Adam Smith -- Hobbit redux / Julie Phillips -- The prevalence of hobbits / Philip Norman -- The saga of Middle Earth / The Times Literary Supplement -- The staring eye / Ursula K. LeGuin.