Agent’s Response to Query Letter for THE HOBBIT
17th August 2009
This may not be all that funny to people who don’t (as I do) haunt the blogs of literary agents, but it’s still pretty funny.
As for the main protagonist – is it likely that children will relate to a fifty-something man with hairy feet who lives in a pit? Might I suggest making Bilbo younger and perhaps a tad less hairy?
Someone who looks like Elijah Wood, for example. (I’m sorry, I just can’t see Elijah Wood as being 55, which is the age Frodo is when he sets off from the Shire. But that’s me.)