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Where to cook morsel for Tolkien’s hero (3,6)

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I believe the answer is:

the hobbit

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'hero' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Novel hero' mean 'tom sawyer' so perhaps 'hero' could also mean 'tom sawyer')

'where to cook morsel for tolkien's' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'to' is present in the answer.
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(Other definitions for the hobbit that I've seen before include "Novel" , "fantasy" , "saga" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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