Mitch’s Reviews > The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bag-End > Status Update

The 1960 Hobbit material is pretty easily the best part of this whole thing.

I'm completely done reading all the first draft material for "The Hobbit" and I still somehow have 200 pages left in this thing.

Ok, after a whole page of analyzing the exact meaning for the name 'Esgaroth' (i.e. Lake-town), Rateliff deduces that it probably means 'city standing in or rising up out of the water, perhaps with a suggestion of pilings like reeds.' This is about as exciting as this book gets, guys!

Ok, after a whole page of analyzing the exact meaning for the name "Esgaroth" (i.e. Lake-town), Rateliff deduces that it probably means "city standing in or rising up out of the water, perhaps with a suggestion of piling like reeds." This is about as exciting as this book gets, guys!