“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Joseph Campbell. In the novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, there is multiple character portrayed as the hero of the story, including Thorin Oakenshield. But this is something I do not think to be entirely true. Some people believe heroes are people much alike to those written in comics wearing capes, while others believe they are everyday people. To me a hero is someone who goes out of there way to help someone or something. And by stating what I believe to be traits of a hero I have come to a conclusion that the character Thorin is not a
