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    Dwarves In The Hobbit

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    Music plays a major role in everyday life, even though people may speak different languages, they can join together in harmony with music. Just like humans magical beings in the Hobbit speak through music and song as well. Each type of being in the text has a certain type of content, structure, and tone in their music. This gives the beings separation but, brings them together at the same time. Dwarves are one of the many types of creatures in the Hobbit. They have a very poem like structure to…

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    Lewis Legacy Essay

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    Tolkien and Lewis, are two writers that have stayed relevant long after their death. There writings are influential to a cultural standpoint as well as an individual. They share values that are from the heart, and all of us as candidates for humanity should admire. Tolkien’s first major influence came during the Cold War around the 1960’s. There was a generation of hippies that loved his books for the profound environmentalism within them. Tolkien was a huge environmentalist and saw a danger…

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    The Hobbit, written by J. R. R. Tolkien, and the movie Willow share many fierce similarities between their unique characters and designs. The Hobbit carries the reader away on a magical adventure with a hobbit named Bilbo and his friends. Willow, however, shares many aspects of that theme as a small creature named Willow partakes in an adventure to save the infant princess Elora from the dangerous fate Queen Bavmorda has sealed upon her. Both of these stories entertain the audience as the main…

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    J.R.R. Tolkien was an English novelist, poet, and professor best known for his works of high fantasy such as “The Hobbit”, “The Lord of the Rings”, and “The Silmarillion”. Tolkien never expected his works to become popular, seeing that he wrote the stories for his young children. By complete accident, The Hobbit became popular enough among children and adults that many began to plead for a sequel. The Hobbit; a fantasy tale published in 1937, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a…

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    Heroism In The Hobbit

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    The Hobbit In the analysis, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien gets employed. Heroism get allude. The Hobbit 's primary subject is Bilbo 's advancement into a legend, which all the more comprehensively speaks to the improvement of a typical individual into a saint. Toward the start of the story, Bilbo is bashful, agreeable, and smug in his protected small gap in the end. At the point when Gandalf talks him into setting out on a mission with Thorin 's dwarves, Bilbo gets to be frightened to the…

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    Dragonlance Legend Series There are three books in the Dragonlance Legends series, titled Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins. This fantasy series was written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in 2001. It is set in the mythical world of Krynn where many races roam the land, including humans, dwarves, kender, elves, gnomes, minotaurs, and—who could forget?—goblins. All of the books are written in third person limited, with Caramon’s thoughts being shown but the main…

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    During the time Lewis was in college and later as a tutor for the college, some his readings exposed him to material by christian authors. Those authors were George MacDonald, and G.K. Chesterton,who was also a journalist, this is a quote of Lewis speaking of the effect these two authors had on his atheistic life, “In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading…

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    Bilbo Heroism

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    A hero is someone who can be there to help out and to save people in need. A hero is supposed to come in and save the day when it is most needed. In The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, some may say that Bilbo is the hero in the story because of all of the heroic acts he did, but the group’s luck helped them get through the events that happened; therefore, luck is the hero. There are possibly three ways luck could be the hero, the group is lucky with helpers, the group is lucky with time, and the group…

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    Effectiveness, efficiency, and a great story is what to look for in a book, like The Hobbit. From the book to the movie there are many ineffective changes affecting the plot of the scene. The novel is written by J.R.R. Tolkien, and the movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is directed by Peter Jackson. In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, a little hobbit, is persuaded to venture on a journey with thirteen dwarves and Gandalf, a great wizard, to steal back stolen gold and kill the enormous Smaug. On…

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    The Hobbit is a good book and one of the reasons it was good because it had many sources and help like King Arthur, Beowulf, and a lot more and now you will read them. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is a children's’ fantasy novel in which a wizard, a Hobbit, and dwarves go on an adventure to recover the dwarves’ lost homeland taken over by a dragon named Smaug. Many connections in The Hobbit and those connections are used by myths and folktales cause Tolkien like to read them as a child. King…

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