The Hobbit-Personal Narrative

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Along time ago an evil dragon called Smaug attacked the town of Dale. He damaged it all. He took all of their treasure. He also took their home. The dwarves got very upset with him, and they are trying to bring their town back, the town of their ancestors. I am the wisest wizard, known as Gandalf the gray. I have a long hat, beard, and black boots. I was the leader of the journey, also the one in charge of it. I wanted to help the dwarves take their land back. I knew that the dwarves and I couldn’t do it alone, so we needed another helper some sort of a burglar. I knew just the right person his name is Bilbo Baggins. I went to his house and I told him that I am coming tomorrow to see him again.
That was the day when I went to hire Mr. Bilbo
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The only problem was that the dwarves and elves are natural enemies but they didn’t have any problems with each other. I then introduced my friend Elrond to the elves and the hobbit. We stayed at Elrond’s house for fourteen days until mid-summer. It was time to leave Rivendell we said goodbye to Elrond. After we left in a while a big storm hit us. All the dwarves were captured by the goblins, so then I went to help them and I fought the goblins, but our ponies didn’t survive the storm. Bilbo was not with them but he went inside a cave and was stuck with Gollum. I started to worry but he came back a live but he didn’t tell us how he got out but I knew that he had the ring that makes anybody invisible. After a while the goblins and the Wargs attacked again and they burned the ground underneath us so we had to climb trees. I suddenly started to fall but the amazing eagles caught me and we ate at their place. I then wanted to go see my friend Beorn who I haven’t seen in a while. I took Bilbo with me first then the others came by pairs except for the last three. I introduced all of them to Beorn and we slept at his house. I also told him about our experience. Then I had to leave to a secret mission so I left the dwarves and Bilbo in …show more content…
Then I told all of the men, elves, dwarves, and Bilbo to unite because the wargs and goblins are going to attack any time. They needed to unite, because they had a war fighting for the treasure. Then they all united and defeated the goblins and wargs. One of the effects of the war was the death of the best king of the dwarves Thorin Oakenshield. I felt the sorrow, but I had to move on. Mr. Bilbo and I had to say our farewells.
On the way home we go to see Beorn and Elrond and I tell them about the journey. We also went to see the troll’s treasure that we hid at first. I also had the chance to tell Bilbo about what I did when I went alone which was to fight the Necromancer with other wizards, whom we killed and defeated. I am thrilled, because the dwarves got their home back. Then Bilbo and I said good bye. After a while Balin and I went to visit Bilbo again, to see how he is

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