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    Along time ago an evil dragon called Smaug attacked the town of Dale. He damaged it all. He took all of their treasure. He also took their home. The dwarves got very upset with him, and they are trying to bring their town back, the town of their ancestors. I am the wisest wizard, known as Gandalf the gray. I have a long hat, beard, and black boots. I was the leader of the journey, also the one in charge of it. I wanted to help the dwarves take their land back. I knew that the dwarves and I…

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    Bilbo Righteous Quotes

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    Righteous. What does it mean to be righteous? The definition of righteous is to be morally right or justifiable, but is that the only definition? How do we know if someone has the quality of righteousness? It all depends on one’s opinion of what they believe is righteous through their own morals and beliefs. Bilbo demonstrates righteousness on multiple occasions through the book. He takes some reasonable and just actions at times and there are other moments where you could question his…

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    and beyond them, high in the East, the Lonely Mountain where dear old Smaug lives, though I hope he isn’t expecting you.” (Tolkien, 152). Gandalf is acting as the Herald of the story once again by issuing an upcoming challenge, the trek through Mirkwood. As a true Herald would, he leaves almost immediately after issuing the challenge, and through this evidence, Gandalf can be confirmed to be the…

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    (Tolkien, Ch. V, 79). At this time Bilbo did not understand what was happening to him and what powers the ring possessed, but he knew that the ring would come in handy for him in the future. As their quest continues Bilbo uses the ring a second time in Mirkwood. After Bilbo, himself escaped the giant spider that tied him up, he used the ring to go save the other dwarves (Tolkien, Ch. VIII, 146). At this time is when Bilbo receives a new type of confidence. After killing the giant spider, he…

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    In the novel The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien the readers are introduced to the protagonist Bilbo Baggins who is a close-minded, and unadventurous creature “ Sorry I don’t want any adventures, thank you” (6).The protagonist, Bilbo is a hobbit which is a small sized race that is similar to humans. Hobbits have hairy feet and enjoy the comfort of their home and knowing they are safe. He lives in a hole in Bag End Underhill and likes food and drinking.In the beginning Bilbo is not daring and weak…

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    he could not stick to his friends… and why the wizard had not picked someone with more sense” (Tolkien, 86) -- he perseveres through every challenge he faces, eventually earning the much overdue respect from the dwarves while they are trapped in Mirkwood. After Gandalf leaves the dwarves to attend to his own business, “it was from little Bilbo that they seemed to expect” (Tolkien, 152) to get all their answers whenever they got themselves into a predicament, which was often. Through all the…

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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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    Serenely settled in his family home, Bag End, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins adores eating great nourishment, blowing smoke rings, and carrying on with a tranquil, quiet life. The exact opposite thing he expects is an enterprise, yet that is precisely what the wizard Gandalf has in store for him. Gandalf shows up on Bilbo 's doorstep one day, and the bothered hobbit gets himself got up to speed in an inexorably disturbing discussion in which the wizard starts to talk of sending Bilbo on an experience.…

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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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    The Hobbit Allusion Essay

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    ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort’ (pg 3). In J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit, there is a world just like ours. But what two worlds are exactly alike? No matter the similarity, each world is as unique as a snowflake. This world, born of Tolkien’s imagination, resides in Middle Earth; this…

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