Frodo Baggins

exemplary hero? If your answer is no, than you are in the same boat as our hero, Bilbo Baggins. But as the age-old adage says, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” In the book The Hobbit by famed British author J.R.R. Tolkien, our protagonist, Bilbo Baggins displays characteristics very similar to those of Beowulf and Sir Gawain. Some say that Bilbo was a coward while others believe he was a mighty hero. Bilbo Baggins matches the example laid down by Beowulf and Sir Gawain for three reasons:…

event that signifies the start of the journey or reason for the hero to leave his normal life. Bilbo refuses because he is a normal and boring person. But eventually Gandalf forces it upon him by directing all the Dwarves at his home. He is a Baggins on his father’s side who are known for not going on any adventures and with a high reputation. On his mother’s side he is a Took, a family who are known for disappearing randomly with a mysterious wizard to go on a quest.…

Tolkien scholar Corey Olsen states, “The complex set of changes that Bilbo’s character undergoes will be one of the central and most intricate stories of the entire book.” Perhaps though the utmost significant set of changes that Bilbo undertakes in regards to his role as the burglar. At the beginning of the story Bilbo is extremely reluctant to join in on the adventure, in his first encounter with Gandalf he attempts to send him away almost immediately. After inviting Gandalf to have a pipe…

There are countless amounts of challenges that help form us into who we are. Even if it’s for good or bad it still shows who we are. The same goes for the little Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo’s personality is dramatically changed in The Hobbit, when he is forced to escape from Gollum’s cave, when he frees the dwarves from the elves, and when he put his life on the line trying to stop a world war. In The Hobbit, Bilbo is greeted by a conflict that causes him to be heroic. Bilbo awakes…

In the novel The Hobbit, the author J.R.R. Tolkien develops character traits of what he considers positive and negative traits for his characters. In the novel The Hobbit in both chapters 1 and 2 the major question is intelligence or physical strength, which is more needed in this novel? In the The Hobbit Tolkien’s characters all have positive and negative character traits. Throughout chapter 1 and 2 Tolkien uses the characteristics he considers good or bad.The reader can tell that the author…

A large part of our modern day interpretation of what a hero is comes from medieval texts, legends, and epics. These tales more often than not star brave knights, volunteering for quests, leading armies, and killing dragons. Tolkiens view of heroism focuses less on strength and power and more on ethics and true human, or should I say Hobbit, development. In the beginning of the novel no one, not the dwarfs or even Bilbo himself can imagine himself being truly helpful to the cause. If it wasn’t…

planning, and stealth) of Bilbo Baggins, the protagonist from The Hobbit, who was both a non-traditional and traditional hero. However, these abilities, though they differ, were all significant in overcoming the perils and hurdles that the heroes encountered during their journey. The skills of all types of heroes (traditional, non traditional, or both) can be crucial for overcoming adversaries and obstacles in that hero’s journey. An essential skill that Bilbo Baggins possessed was stealth: the…

Heroism Heroism “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn. Heroes can be anyone, heroes don’t put themselves before others, they put others lives before their own. They make sacrifices and hard decisions like choosing the few over the many. Heroes would sacrifice themselves for the lives of others. Heroes don’t always succeed at what they are trying to accomplish. Sometimes they don’t…

One of the character that I would like to be is bilbo baggins because he is a kind Hobbit. He is kind because when bilbo could have killed Gollum in the goblin tunnels when Gollum was trying to kill Bilbo, Bilbo had the chance to kill gollum, but he didn’t do it. Another reason why he is kind is because after Gollum, bilbo could have run back home to the Shire, but instead he came back to the dwarves and fought off the orcs with them. He was risking his life so they could get back their homeland…

People change when they are forced out of comfort and into doing things by themselves. Bilbo develops positively from 3 events that challenge him because he does not stay in hobbit hole and do nothing. He becomes less sedentary and more adventurous when the dwarves and Gandalf convince him with the song to go on the adventure, he becomes more brave when he steals the ring from Gollum and he becomes more responsible when dealing with the spiders after Gandalf leaves. The song they sing makes him…