Paragraph Numbers for Chapter 5 of the 1937 Edition of The Hobbit

For those of us working with the fascinating 1937 edition of The Hobbit, here’s your index to all the paragraphs of Chapter V.  This chapter is the most changed between 1937 and 1951, with different plot elements and a very different Gollum.  Each paragraph is identified by the prefix 1937.05. then the paragraph number within that chapter.  Thank you to John Rateliff for his help with the text.  Gratitude to my Data Mooshing Specialist, Daroc Alden.

I have used this text:

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit: or There and Back Again. The Children’s Book Club (1942).

1937 Chapter 5 Hobbit index

Paragraph Numbers for The Hobbit

Fellow Tolkien fans and academicians, we’re happy to know that so many different editions and printings of The Hobbit abound.  In your scholarly writings of doom, you dutifully write down the page numbers for your quotations, but when your readers go searching for it – their page numbers are probably different.  Fear not, here’s your index to all the paragraphs of The Hobbit  by unique paragraph number.  Each paragraph is identified by its chapter number, decimal, paragraph number within that chapter.  May clarity reign.  Thank you to Robin Reid for her help with the text.  Gratitude to my Data Mooshing Specialist, Daroc Alden.

I have used the text edited by Douglas Anderson: Tolkien, J.R.R. (2012-02-15). The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

Hobbit Paragraph Index