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    In the book, The Hobbit, the main character known as Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit with two sides to his personality. One is his tookish side, but he tends to be more on his hobbit side. The tookish side of him is the one who mostly like to explore and see things from other places that he had never been before no matter the danger it might be. Although, the hobbit side may be more of him, the tookish side will be there when danger is near. As people continue to read this book, they see more and more…

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    Bilbo: The Safe Side

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    The safe side. The safe side is when someone is wanting to do something maybe dangerous or something wrong and you would rather stay away from trouble. That was Bilbo all the time before he went on an adventure with the dwarves and Gandalf. He let loose at sometimes, and the readers started to see his “tookish” side. Meaning he stepped out of his comfort zone. In the beginning of the novel, Bilbo invited Gandalf over for tea time. Come tea time Bilbo expects the wizard, instead, thirteen…

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    J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has various settings throughout the novel, often taking place in the fantasy world of Middle Earth during the Third Age, which many believe the author based off of Britain in the Middle Ages. Bilbo Baggins, along with a rather colossal group of dwarves wanting to reclaim their gold from the dragon Smaug, travel through: Bags End, the Lone-Lands, Rivendell, the Misty Mountains, Mirkwood, and the Lonely Mountain. This audacious novel begins with the venturesome Bilbo…

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    At tea time, Bilbo Baggins found an unexpected party of dwarves at his front door. Bilbo was expecting Gandalf, the wizard, but he forgot. Gandalf and the dwarves had come to recruit Bilbo for a mission. This mission was to take back treasure and homes from Smaug, a mean dragon. Dragons enjoy stealing gold and not enjoying it. The dragon should be described a greedy miser. Bilbo Baggins took up the mission because the dwarves’ song made Bilbo want to see faraway places, and after Gandalf left,…

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    in many dangerous challenges, wins an award and comes home into a different personality. The main character, Bilbo Baggins, is a typical hobbit who enjoys a muted environment, hates traveling, and is shy. One morning, he receives a knock on the door from Gandalf informing him he was the chosen one for an adventure. Baggins gave him an attitude to make sure Gandalf knew he don't want to deal with any adventure. As he was apprehensive about adventures. That night, Gandalf threw a surprise party at…

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    In an unusual set of circumstances, I found myself both off from work and without my boys, on a Saturday and with absolutely no plans. Becoming bored by the afternoon, with no distractions, nothing worth watching on TV, and a desire to make a meal that didn't include hot dogs, I decided to invite Joe over for dinner. I met Joe at shortly after I started working at Jolly's Donuts. The place was so new they barely had a functional kitchen, and Joe had been called in to install the industrial…

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    the first book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy written by J.R.R Tolkien. This book and the other books of the trilogy have become some of the most popular books ever, and have been made into movies. It is a continuation of the story from The Hobbit. One of the main themes of the story is an seemingly unimportant person being forced to be a hero. The books starts with Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, giving a magical ring to his younger cousin Frodo. A while later, a wizard named Gandalf comes to tell…

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    first out of the three books in The Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings is named Sauron, the Dark Lord, who lost this One Ring that contains much of his soul and power. He has an overriding desire and power to reclaim the Ring and use it to enslave all of Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a quest literature, a quest is what happens when a character or more than one character travels to a faraway destination with a purpose and desire of achieving that goal. The element in this…

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    in the functional seaside town of Storybroke - Maine in the present, and in Camelot in the past (six weeks ago), which residents are actually characters from various fairy tales and other stories transported to the real world.Episodes usually have one segment that details the characters' past lives that, when serialized, adds a piece to the puzzle about the characters and their connection to the events that preceded the curse and its consequences. The other, set in the present day, follows a…

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    The idea of Betrayal is one of key major points in the story, as Miller presents all the characters (even the citizens of red hook themselves) to place it as the biggest taboo that one should not cross. It can be as simple as snitching, or going back on one’s word on whoever he promised. Whatever one’s definition of betrayal is, everyone in our modern society, or even the old one, know that betrayal is one of the more heinous acts on earth. No one tolerates the idea of getting betrayed, but what…

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