Comparing Beowulf And The Hobbit

The Hobbit is a good book and one of the reasons it was good because it had many sources and help like King Arthur, Beowulf, and a lot more and now you will read them. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is a children's’ fantasy novel in which a wizard, a Hobbit, and dwarves go on an adventure to recover the dwarves’ lost homeland taken over by a dragon named Smaug. Many connections in The Hobbit and those connections are used by myths and folktales cause Tolkien like to read them as a child. King Arthur from Thomas Malory, Sir Gawain and the loathly lady, Beowulf, and the Story of the Volsungs were all used in The Hobbit in certain points. In Beowulf there are many connections in The Hobbit such as the part when the man takes the cup and when the dragon rages and goes out destroy. In Beowulf the man takes a cup with gold and Bilbo did that and you can tell now that Tolkien borrowed that clearly. “And took the cup from that treasure-hoard” …show more content…
In The Hobbit both characters are asked to meet again at the same time and also two important People get healed and then one owes a doubt and the other doesn’t. “Now let me go. I promise you as I am the true king, to come again at this day one year from now and bring you your answer.” (Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady 453). “Why not tomorrow? Come tomorrow! Good-bye!” (J.R.R. Tolkien 6). In both stories the characters are asked to meet again at another time, but at the same time as well, like in The Hobbit Bilbo tells Gandalf to come at the same time tomorrow and in Sir Gawain and The Loathly Lady King, Arthur is told to come at the same time when Sir Gromer got him, and he has to come from exactly one year later. “Soon Merlin stood by the king's side and said: "I know all your heart, and promise ye shall have your desire, if ye will be sworn to fulfil