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Hobberdy Dick by K. M. Briggs is the authentic voice of English folklore.
Forget Tolkein - Katherine Briggs is the real deal. She was the head of the British Folklore Society for 40 years. Both she and Tolkein were obsessed with British folklore - elves, fairies, and especially hobgoblins.
Tolkein wrote THE HOBBIT while Briggs wrote HOBBERDY DICK.
HOBBERDY DICK is a fantasy novel set during the English Civil War when the old supernatural world of magic was being beseiged by the rationalism of the Roundheads.
Hobberdy Dick is a hobbit who lives in the hearth of an old country house and who longs to shuffle off his attachment to this world and be released into the ether.
The plot concerns a couple whose love is threatened by the brutality of war.
Hobberdy Dick comes to their rescue and as a reward is granted the release that he longs for - it's similar to the way that Prospero releases Ariel at the end of the Tempest.
In fact, Briggs is closer to Shakespeare than to Tolkien, whose work is sentimental and clogged with fake mystifying mythologies.
Whereas Briggs' work is deeply English and filled with the wonders and delights of the spirits animating the woodlands that Shakespeare celebrated in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
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