J. R. R. Tolkien

In the novel "The Hobbit" written by J.R.R. Tolkien the reader enters a world filled with fantastic elements. The reader is introduced to a world filled with creatures such as Hobbits, dragons and wizards. In this novel, we are introduced to the protagonist named Bilbo Baggins who lives in a fictional village Hobbiton. As a reader Tolkien 's diction choice, add the other stuff intrigue a reader to enter the fantastic world of Bilbo the hobbit as he and the other character 's embark on their the…

In the contexts of the Monomyth, Bilbo and his journey in the book The Hobbit (1937) can be compared to Moana’s journey in the film Moana (2016). J.R.R. Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit, tells the story of Bilbo’s journey to the Lonely Mountain with Gandalf and thirteen dwarves. Moana, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, tells the story of Moana’s journey to return the Heart of Te Fiti. The Monomyth, first coined by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), is a storytelling…

All narratives refer to an art of storytelling, a sequence that is followed known as the Hero’s Journey. An example of a narrative that exhibits the Hero’s Journey is The Hobbit, a fictional novel written by J.R.R Tolkien, first published in 1937. This is a story about a creature known as a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who goes on an enticing adventure. This essay will elucidate why the sixth stage of the Hero’s Journey, tests, allies and enemies, is the most significant within the narrative.…

Imagine if you and two of your friends are stuck in a huge maze built with tall concrete walls, covered in ivy. To make this situation more interesting, this maze is filled with huge monsters, called the grievers. You don’t have any memory of what happened two days ago. If you had the choice to save your friends, what would you do? This was the situation of Thomas, the lead character in the Maze Runner, by James Dashner. Thomas is sent to a hidden place called the Glade. This place has a huge…

himself, “It was not the correct thing to say, but they have begun to arrive had flustered him badly.” Additionally, throughout the scene Tolkien uses words such as angry, bewuthered, and bewildered to describe Bilbo’s mood as he was continuously greeting new arrivals while making sure the other guests had their needs met and addressing loud knocks on the door. Tolkien also says that Bilbo, “was beginning to wonder whether a most wretched adventure had not come right into his house.” The chaotic…

J.R.R. Tolkien himself said, in his essay On Fairy-Stories, that “the Consolation of the Happy Ending” is needed at the end of any complete fairy-story (2001, 68). Fantasy, the genre under which the fairy-story falls, is notable for the way in which the adventure or quest is brought to a close by the distribution of rewards (Marquis, 2017), and it is from this reward distribution that the happy ending commonly comes. However, Tolkien’s own story, The Hobbit, has a distinct and unusual way of…

Seeing a half-human, half-horse in real life would be a great experience. A centaur would be that creature and he would have the head and torso of a human but the body of a horse. In Harry Potter the centaur places the role of having to save Harry and keep the woods in order like from Voldemort trying to stay alive by drinking unicorn blood. A centaur is a savior and anyone would be lucky to have one around because they’re so magical and are good protectors. The unicorn that Voldemort was…

movie series, with its mythical world, the plot and characters, and dialogue. The legendarium of Middle Earth is home to many races and creatures real, and nonexistent. Words can not explain how the author of the original books, JRR Tolkien, thought of this world and everything in it. In the series there are many races; men, elves, dwarves, ents, orcs, trolls, goblins, and wizards. Each one having their own language, completes a whole new world and creativity among readers and…

In bloemfontein, South Africa, on January 3, 1892, a man was born, his name was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien, a man who lived in two centuries, a man who has lived in a time when an American president John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the same man who lived through the Korean War, and through a time when two atomic bombs were dropped, desolating the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki in Japan, of course, in an effort to put the kibosh on the fighting in World War II has lived through a…

stands out is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. A specialist in Old and Middle English at the University of Oxford, Tolkien is remembered as professor, scholar, and storyteller (Doughan). Particularly, his series The Hobbit, as well as its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, earned him great fame and success. Honored by many and loved by literally millions, Tolkien’s work is often considered the greatest of the twentieth century (Doughan). Born on January 3, 1892, Tolkien considered himself thoroughly…