In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. This is said to be the line that Tolkien scribbed on one of his student's exam papers; from here the story of the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings and other tales of Middle Earth began.

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. This is said to be the line that Tolkien scribbed on one of his student's exam papers; from here the story of the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings and other tales of Middle Earth began.

— The Hobbit: or There and Back Again