Mirkwood

In chapters six and seven, Bilbo comes to an understanding of the rings power and becomes adept of the ring and masters its use. When retelling the story of how he escaped from the goblins and Gollum, Bilbo fails to mention the ring and keeps it a secret. The other dwarves begin to respect him after he tells his tale; their growing respect differs from the attitude they had toward Bilbo at the beginning of the story, when they only tolerated him for Gandalf's sake. After the group resumes their…

Chapter 1 opens as the wizard Gandalf visits the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and invites him to join in an adventure. Bilbo declines, reluctant to leave the safety and comfort of his hobbit-hole. The next day, he is visited by dwarves who believe Bilbo can be of use to them in their journey to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim their ancestral treasure, now in the possession of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo realizes that Gandalf had represented him to the dwarves as a burglar. He reluctantly agrees to go, but he…

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who lives in a hobbit hole. When he met Gandalf, he asked him to go on an adventure with him. First Bilbo said he didn’t wanna go and he wanted to stay in his hobbit hole like every other hobbit wants to do. Until the took part of side of him is courageous and adventurous part of him made him go on the adventure. Also when the dwarves came to his hobbit hole and took his food and sang their songs. One of the biggest symbols in the book is the ring.…

The throng is adventuring through the Mirkwood forest when Wood-Elves that are armed capture the dwarves, Bilbo is not due to him wearing the ring he got from Gollum. Bilbo, instead of getting help he followed the elves to their palace where the dwarves are taken. Bilbo finds where the dwarves…

When you first read it you may seem to think why would a little hobbit want to go an adventure? In the first part of the book you see bilbo baggins. He is a race called the Hobbits. Now you may think what is a hobbit? A hobbit is a race of short plump little people. The are half the size of a human, they enjoy food and drink. At first you think why would a hobbit be a main character? Well you're about to find out. One afternoon and old wise wizard arrives at Bilbo’s house. The little hobbit…

world that makes the reader to accept the unordinary world. In the high fantasy world not only setting is important, but also the characters in the fantasy land also play a huge role. The Middle Earth has various types of places such as Trollshaw, Mirkwood, Misty Mountain, and Hobbiton, where the main creatures and the hobbits happened to create the high fantasy world. Without these races and places on Middle-earth it would not have been possible to form a high fantasy story. In The…

In the book The Hobbit, Tolkien incorporates topics that relates to other pieces of literary work, specifically the topic/theme of how no matter someone's background anyone can achieve something that they set their mind to. A text that relates to this topic is the the poem Can I? Why Not? written by Liam Francis. In both texts the idea of achieving a goal is covered. In the novel The Hobbit, the main character Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit that lives in a hole, when one day Gandalf appears and…

escapes the caves by himself using his ring and facing Gollum and playing their game of riddles not only shows that Bilbo is good under pressure, but he is now more self-reliant. Secondly, when Bilbo finds himself standing face to face with a spider in Mirkwood, he is faced with a fight or flight situation. Bilbo quickly reacts, killing the giant spider and as Tolkien describes his thoughts as “Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the…

Hobbits are always predictable—they never have any adventures or do anything out of the ordinary. They like peace and quiet and enjoy the comforts of home, like the six meals they have a day. The unexpected hero, Mr. Bilbo Baggins, like any hobbit, enjoys the comforts of his hobbit hole, but eventually finds himself doing and saying things rather unexpected. The Hobbit, a fantasy fiction novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, shows how Bilbo evolves from a simple hobbit to a true hero. Bilbo Baggins…

Often authors use literary foils to help enhance the characters and the tales they tell through literature. This is very true in the Hobbit written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien. In the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, is recruited by the wizard Gandalf to go help Thorin and the dwarves return their ancestor’s treasures stolen by Smaug. Thorin, the proud, arrogant leader of the thirteen dwarves who tends to overlook the needs of the group in order to pursue his own interests,…