The first Scottish Gaelic translation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy adventure The Hobbit has been completed by a professor at the University of Aberdeen. Moray Watson, a professor of Gaelic and translation - and a lifelong Tolkien fan - started work on A' Hobat before the start of the Covid pandemic.

Moray Watson, Professor of Gaelic and Translation at the University of Aberdeen and a lifelong Tolkien fan, began working on 'A’ Hobat' several years ago. Now, after many phases of editing, the book is available to order,