Tolkien wrote The Hobbit to entertain his own children

Tolkien created The Hobbit while residing at 20 Northmoor Road in North Oxford and attending Pembroke College. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien was published in 1937 and became an immediate hit. Children and adults alike were moved by the book, and they began to flood the author with letters of praise and requests for a sequel. He authored the book in his leisure time with the express intention of amusing his kids, so his astonishment at their response was complete.

The Hobbit, a book that Tolkien had written a few years earlier for his children, came out in 1936 and caught the attention of Susan Dagnall, an employee of the George Allen publishing company in London & Unwin, who convinced Tolkien to submit it for publication. Tolkien never expected his stories to become well-known. When it was released a year later, the book drew not only young readers but also adults, and it was so well-liked that publishers begged Tolkien to write a sequel.

Although many other authors had written fantasy books before Tolkien, The Hobbit's enormous success directly contributed to the revival of interest in and definition of the modern fantasy genre. Due to this, many people now consider Tolkien to be the "father" of modern fantasy literature specifically, exquisite fantasy fiction.