Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
I'm actually reading through the Hobbit right now, and I'm intrigued about the original version.
The Wikipedia article on "The Hobbit" says that the only changes between the first and second editions are the chapter "Riddles in the Dark", which Tolkien sent a revised version of to his publishers and was quite surprised to see the revised version in the new book! Third edition was 1966, which had some small textual alterations elsewhere.