Gandalf

It was family. Tradition. Culture. We wanted as much land to ensure our future’s happiness. Land to make our own stories and history. Instead of reading from history books or looking online, we wanted to take an adventure – maybe even with Navajo Gandalf – to physically show young children what their ancestors have created. What they built with their hands. To show them once their fathers and mothers have passed on, the land was theirs to protect. To nurture. To cultivate and shape like a…

1. The Republic of Minas Tirith is the world’s third most populous country with more than 1.1 billion. It is located centrally on Earth with everything a nation could ask for from nature. The country is rich is mineral ores which include magnetite, steel, coal and magnate. The country has an area of 3,287,590 km2. The political structure, legal system and legislation of Republic of Minas Tirith are in parimateria with that of Republic of India. Minas Tirith has signed all the major international…

December 17th, 2014 was a very important day for many people around the world. On that day Peter Jackson released the third and final Hobbit movie, The Battle of Five Armies. It was almost exactly thirteen years before, (December 19th, 2001) that he released the first movie of The Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Fellowship of the Ring. This was a huge moment for all the fans of J.R.R Tolkien’s books, because The Battle of Five Armies is the last part of the whole series. Although the Hobbit…

Narrative Suture and Reader Engagement in The Hobbit Reader engagement is critical for the success of a novel. If a reader is not interested in the novel, it is unlikely for them to finish it or recommend it to others. Therefore, an author will use various narrative strategies to promote reader engagement, and this is something that J. R. R. Tolkien does extremely well. The Hobbit has received wide critical acclaim and has become one of the most famous novels of our time, due in part to the…

Game of Thrones is unlike any other series on air to date. It has recently gained a massive following of fans over its fairly short lifespan as a series. Drawing from George R. R. Martins books, this series, for sake of argument is practically the same as the books in its adaptation. The series strays from the typical fantasy series with its absence of a singular quest, portrayal of magic, and its mostly gray characters, give Game of Thrones a realistic view in the fantasty genre. With all…

ready to kill the dwarves, but their plan takes a detour and wood elves come, shooting arrows everywhere. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien is about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who goes on an adventure with 13 greedy, old dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf, to help them reclaim the Lonely Mountain. The Lonely Mountain is filled with treasure and it used to be owned by the dwarves, but it became in possession of Smaug, a dragon who took it from them long ago. Now Thorin the leader of the dwarves,…

Another famous work by Tolkien is, The Hobbit. The Hobbit is a story about a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who has to step out of his comfort zone to help Dwarves reclaim their kingdom from a dragon. The plot is about Bilbo Baggins and a wizard named Gandalf the Grey who convinces Bilbo to embark on an adventure to help Dwarves sneak into their kingdom in the Lonely Mountain and slay a dragon by the name of Smaug. The mood of the book is adventurous and daring. With these two books he has caught…

Defining Priorities Down deep in the Mines of Moria, the wizard Gandalf gave a simple yet powerful saying,”All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” In other words, priorities will define what we achieve in out lives. This is a major part of what Suzanne Collins was trying to emphasize in her book, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games novel takes place in a future civilization called Panem. The corrupt government of this society forces each of its state like districts to…

Defining Priorities Down deep in the Mines of Moria, the wizard Gandalf gave a simple yet powerful saying,”All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” In other words, priorities will define what we achieve in our lives. This is a major part of what Suzanne Collins was trying to emphasize in her book, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games novel takes place in a future civilization called Panem. The corrupt government of this society forces each of its state like districts to…

Introduction: How’d He Do That? Memory, symbols, and patterns are important tools to have and use when reading literature. Memory allows the reader to connect what they are reading to something they have read, seen or heard before, and helps them to see similarities between them and draw their own conclusions. Symbols allow readers to find the deeper meaning in what they are reading and help them avoid merely reading what is on the page. Finally, patterns teach the reader what to look…