James R. Flynn

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…

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…

near end of chapter fourteen, when the news of the death of the dragon has spread, and he writes, ‘Very great indeed was the commotion among all things with wings that dwelt on the borders of the Desolation of the Dragon’ (pg 232). Lastly is when J R R Tolkien describes the scene before the Battle of the Five Armies, ‘Winter thunder on a wild rolled roaring up and rumbled in the Mountain, and lightning lit its peak’ (pg 255). Alliterations also contribute to the theme of imagery in Tolkien’s…

If you were to walk into any middle school English class that uses the A.R. program to encourage to read, what would you expect to see? A variety of books of all different genre’s and plots? If this is the cause, you would be sadly mistaken. Richard H. Tyre published an article in 1978 that explains this situation to a tee. He explains how most kids choose to read books similar to Harry Potter, The Lord of The Rings series, and even The Wizard of Oz. Now some would not categorize these three…

Music is very important to everyday life. Everyone in every kind of culture has music that they listen to, whether the person who listen to it is a human or a creature from “The Hobbit”. In chapters from this novel, the magical beings known as dwarves, elves, and goblins sing their very own song in that chapter. Each song shows a different tone, content, and structure. This reveal In the beginning of the novel, the dwarves, Gandalf, and Bilbo plan to go on an adventure. When they are planning,…

Music play an important role in people's lives. Music inspire people in different ways, music inspire people to sing, write songs, play instruments, without music people would not be happy. In “The Hobbit” you can find different types of songs like scary, happy, mysterious and much more. The song of the dwarves’ song represents magic, and adventure, because when you read the first paragraph you see “Far over the misty mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old”. When you see this you…

In the story bilbo achieves different milestones in the book,i'm here to tell you about three of them, when he stole the ring when they made it to rivendell and when bilbo saved them from the goblins. The first great obstacle Bilbo and the dwarves overcome is the Misty Mountains. As is the case throughout their journey, the farther from home they travel, the greater the danger. The very name of "the Wild" provides a symbolic contrast with what is familiar, tame, and domestic, and the…

young age in Tolkien even by his fellow peers as he always had his head in books or writing of some sort. (Johansen, K.V. "Tolkien and Lewis." Resource Links, Oct. 2002, p. 28+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&u=j014910&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA93918072&asid=eb68f6228db1c8981a74d40138c1a56f. Accessed 3 Apr.…

Michael Santurello II The Hobbit Hon English IV 8 February 2017 A Journey Into The Hobbit A journey into the middle-earth, is where the author J.R.R Tolkien takes the reader in the novel known as The Hobbit. This book tells of a quest in which Bilbo Baggins, a small hobbit is hired by dwarves to come with them to fight a dragon and have a share of their treasure. There is much reason to believe that, even though not his intent, Mr. Tolkien had made his writings of Lord of the Rings and the…

INTRODUCTION The series is termed as A Song of Ice and Fire written by GRR Martin, and the game of thrones comes from the first book of this series. The name of the series tries to provide a perspective to its readers that at some point of time Fire and Ice will be opposing each other, sometime. The whole series orbits around intensified politics, where a set of houses, take as modern day nations, are trying to take over a common throne, assume being the ultimate super-power. The series…