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It Has been a four-year-long feud for hobbit devotee David Day. His guide to the elves, dwarves and magic of Middle Earth is to be published this week after he took on his very own fire-breathing dragon - in the guise of the Tolkien estate - and finally won.
The saga of Day's attempt to publish The Hobbit Companion, his guide to the works of J R R Tolkien, has as many twists and turns as a work of fiction, with accusations of literary theft, hobbit heresy and threats of an injunction all being used to stop the book.
Day's troubles began when he submitted his manuscript to his original publisher, HarperCollins, which also publishes J R R Tolkien's books and...