Smaug

Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch, to light the night, for our delight...so dwarves shall die, and light the night, for our delight!” (107) Although no dwarves died in the conflict they were singing about, this excerpt foreshadows how Smaug will burn the human city of Lake Town to the ground. It tells readers about the goblins’ involvement in the evil deed and how Thorin, Kili, and Fili will die later into the story. In chapter 9, Bilbo comes up with a courageous plan to get the dwarves…

The Hobbit was an epic fantasy written by the J.R.R. Tolkien. It demonstrates the brotherhood between thirteen dwarves and a Hobbit. Within the story, the characters go on a quest to reconquer their land back from an evil dragon named Smaug. In the beginning of the story, a great wizard named Gandalf knocks on Bilbo’s door with a band of homeless dwarves. In the text it states, “It is a plan of the mountain ( … ) I know where Mirkwood is and the withered heath where the great dragons bred.”…

Bilbo should have left on an adventure is that he experienced emotions he would never have experienced if he did not go on this adventure. He experienced victory when he defeated the spider's, he experienced tremendous fear when the almighty dragon Smaug detected his…

“The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien, a short Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, had a very ordinary life and strayed away from adventure. A wizard, Gandalf, and a tremendous amount of dwarves came to Bagginses hole and hatched a plan to take down a dragon named Smaug. After reading a little more of this book, I predicted that Mr. Baggins will go on this quest and this adventure will change Mr. Bagginses lifestyle forever. My first prediction is, that Mr. Baggins will go on this adventure. I think of this due…

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,…

again, “...Stick to the forest track, keep your spirits up, hope for the best, and with a tremendous slice of luck you may come out one day and see the Long Marshes lying below you, 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…

Often time’s soldiers in war create special bonds with each other, which often times seem to be a necessity of survival. In the book “The Hobbit,” Bilbo Baggins goes on a perilous journey with a party of twelve other dwarves, and during this journey a brotherhood is created between these two very different peoples. This may just be comradeship, because Verweii, a writer on military ethics, notes that “comrades in arms come to feel an intense love for one another.” The connection between Bilbo…

Diary Writing #3 (Thorin POV) Rejoice for Smaug is dead. The foul reptile that lay upon my family’s treasure for so long has been eliminated. The treasure is finally ours after all our trial and tribulations it is finally ours! I see relief in my brother’s faces and I think for the first time since we were trapped in the castle the little hobbit has let himself breathe. I turn to Roac, still stationary on the ground, to thank him for relaying the great news but he responds with infuriating news…

sleeping on a bed of gold. Any bravery you had perhaps had fled into your belly and hid there. “This is as far as I can go, Bilbo.” “Thank you for accompanying me this far,” Bilbo whispered. Bilbo, little Bilbo, was to venture forth alone and meet Smaug the Terrible. Bilbo Baggins who belonged in the emerald Shire, reading in his plush armchair, with a cup nearby; turned…

Something changes in Bilbo the next morning and he runs to meet the dwarves after signing the contract. He goes through the trials by facing the trolls and Smaug. Bilbo goes on this adventure to have fun and to explore the Shire because he had never left his home in Hobbiton. There was major character development in Bilbo from the beginning to the end. He starts off as a small conservative little mouse and…