Infinite Books on Instagram: "One moment of divine inspiration. The rest is history. In the summer of 1930, J. R. R. Tolkien was a 38-year-old Oxford professor faced with the mind-numbing task of grading hundreds of exam papers. On one blank page he paused, and without planning wrote the words: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” He didn’t know what a hobbit was, but the word demanded a story. Over the next two years he spun the sentence into a manuscript, reading chapters aloud to h