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81 Cards in this Set
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Bilbo
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main hobbit, very simple
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Bilbo's home
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under a hill, one level, many rooms
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Gandalf
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wizard, helpful with journey (gods)
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Thorin
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king of dwarves, bossy (Odysseus)
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Goal of journey
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Thorin to get back home, kill Smaug
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Trolls
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3 big ones, they turn to stone in the sunlight
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Elrond
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elvin king, welcoming, helps them in every single way
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Elrond's home
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on the way there and back
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Goblins
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kidnapped the dwarves, house is in the mountains
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Gollum
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riddle-didn't answer-Bilbo followed him out
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Gollum's precious
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invisibility ring
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Wargs
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wolves, ran into a tree, and Wargs wanted to eat them
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Eagles
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saved the dwarves from the wargs
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Beorn
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helpful, can't go outside at night, gives them horses
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Mirkwood
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the forest they have to pass through
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Spiders
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man-eating in Mirkwood, Bilbo taunts them and gets dwarves back
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Wood Elves
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lights outside the path
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Barrels
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captured by the wood elves, put dwarves in barrels
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Long Lake
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rolled down, town under Lonely Mountain
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Master
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leader, corrupt and greedy
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Bard
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shoots Smaug, noble, honest, willing to share
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Lonely Mountain
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giant palace underneath the rock and Smaug has his treasure there
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Smaug
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dragon who goes on rampage when Bilbo takes the Arkenstone
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Arkenstone
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stone that Smaug guards
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Thrush
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bird and helps door get open, later tells Bard how to kill Smaug
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Battle
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people and elves against dwarves (beginning), then goblins and wargs arrive
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Battle ending
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Thorin dies, Bard kills Smaug, set the treasure out equally
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The Hobbit ending
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Bilbo gets home and relatives are trying to sell his stuff-immensly wealthy and buys his stuff back
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Fable
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very short story that uses animals to teach a moral lesson
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Aesop
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collected the fables but never wrote them
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Moral-Goose and Golden Egg
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much wants more and loses all
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Moral-The Miser
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wealh is useless if you don't use it
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Moral-The Town and the Country Mouse
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be happy with what you have
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Moral-Grasshopper and Ants
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don't waste your time then expect good things to happen
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Moral-Boy Bathing
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give assistance, not advice, in crisis
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Myth
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solid statement of a communities beliefs
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Legend
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great hero, based on national spirit, history, or pride
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Folktale
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mortal is central, told for entertainment and education
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Proper myth
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god/goddesses are central, supernatural explanations
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Homer
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wrote Iliad and the Oddyssey, poetry based on Trojan War
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Virgil
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praises beauty and nature, wrote Aenead
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Aristotle
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a philosopher who defined tragedy
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Sophocles
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added the 3rd actor, made the chorus larger, introduced scene painting, and trilogy (Antigone and Oedipus Rex)-tragedy
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Aeschylus
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added the 2nd actor (Prometheus Bound)-earliest plau wrighters
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Euripedes
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deus ex machina (The Trojan Women)
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Aristophanes
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comedies, Lysistrata
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Chaos
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dark, swirling mass of confusion the Greeks thought were the first state
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Gaea/Uranus
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1st deity, son/husband
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Titans
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human like children
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100-Handed Ones
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were the children that had 100 hands each
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Cyclopes
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simple giant with one eye (type of child)
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Cronus/Rhea
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gave Cronus a stone to eat instead of their last child
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Zeus
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the hidden child, overthrew Cronus and is the god of the Earth and Sky
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Hera
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sister and jealous wife of Zeus
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Hades
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lord of the underworld
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Poseidon
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god of the sea
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Apollo
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god of music and medicine
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Athena
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goddess of wisdom, war, and weaving craft
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Artemis
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goddess of childbirth, hunting and the moon
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Hestia
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goddess of home and earth
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Demeter
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goddess of crops and seasons
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Persephone
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wife of Hades, queen of the underworld
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Aphrodite
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goddess of love
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Ares
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brutal and unpredictable god of war
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Hephaestus
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ugly and lame god of torture
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Hermes
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messenger of the gods
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Dionysus
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god of wine, religious ecstasy, and theatre
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Crete
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Minotaur kept there, Minos is king
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Thebes
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Oedipus' biological son
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Ioclus
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where Jason is from
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Argos
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place where Perseus is from
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Hercules
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son of Zeus, 12 labors
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Jason
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sailed on Argo and retrieved the golden fleece
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Oedipus
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married mother, became king, blinded himself
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Pelias
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uncle of Jason
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Laius
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Oedipus' biological father
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Cheiron
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centaur who helped train Achilles
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Paris
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killed Achilles for killing Hector
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Minos
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King of Crete
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Aegeus
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Theseus' father
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Danae
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Perseus' mother
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