Persuasive Essay On The Hobbit

I know for sure I want to introduce the world of Middle-Earth to my students. J.R.R. Tolkien is a wonderful writer that just describes world that doesn’t exist but he writes it in a way that makes you see it clearly. In high school, I didn’t read a variety of books that was fictional and had supernatural themes. I only experienced that outside the classroom, and I don’t want my students to follow the same path I had to go down. Unfortunately the three-book series is banned by certain school districts, and I would have to tread carefully to introduce The Lord of the Rings to a classroom. This is a classic that has regained popularity time from time again, but a teacher has to remain cautious just in case a parent is not in agreement in letting their child read this. I believe The Lord of the Rings does have a right to be included in the school curriculum. The Sunday Telegraph states the trilogy is “among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century” (Pettinger, “Biography of J.R.R. …show more content…
After its success, Tolkien wanted to adapt the world of The Hobbit on a larger scale. He wanted to expand what he has done into an adult series. The Lord of the Rings is often mistaken as a trilogy, but there are six books in total that Tolkien himself divided in between. He was very much against the idea of splitting his masterpiece into three parts. However, his publishers decided to spilt them in between three volumes to cut down its size (hence why it’s often called a trilogy as I will refer to it.) It can even be considered an epic. Once it’s been published, it was an instant success. It has been translated in more than thirty languages, and been made into films that still attract generations of audiences from all over the world. However, that hasn’t stopped parents from allowing students to read this world-famous