The Shire, Valley Of The Elves And The Lonely Mountain

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There are three majors areas that are visited in the book. The Shire, Valley of the Elves, and of course The Lonely Mountain. These areas are encompassed by middle earth, also the story begins in 2941 and ended in 2942.

The Shire is a peaceful land with lushest green hilly terrain as far as the eye can see, with wonderful Hobbits enjoying each other's time as well as minding their own business and sticking to very usual lives. These lands are so beautiful and peaceful I’m certain you wouldn’t find a thief nor a speck of grass overgrown.

Once the story progresses we are introduced to a new land named The Valley of the Elves this area is very large and consists of all areas that the Elves inhabit. These lands are a wonderful green as well but the hills that we had seen in The Shire have left us and now we have rocky mountains
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He is a wise man that every person in the book looks towards for advice be it tactical or emotional. He seems to be growing older with age and beginning to not be able to do all of the things he once could. I believe this character isn’t realistic because one can simply not know everything like Gandalf does, unfortunate but completely fine though this character is still a good one and with it being fiction there’s some leeway.

Thorin Oakenshield is leader of the dwarves and has a very strategical thought processes. He has very rugged facial features like the worn king he is. He is my favorite character because I think he’s the most realistic, he had given into greed like many people here in our world. He’d been corrupted by it and changed the way he thought. The ruler that was once lawfully just had fallen, but at the end of the story he was given a chase to redeem

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