Smaug

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 their journey they face many hardships, but those hardships help shape the heroic Bilbo that shows up at the end of the novel. In the motion picture there is many changes from the original. Especially in chapter five, Riddles In The Dark, in…

Peter Jackson’s way of expressing his skills in this movie, and to show what is like to be in a battle with the characters of the movie is a unique way to direct. Peter Jackson’s way of portraying the trolls is an amazing way of directing. Using camera angles to express how glorious the battle is, or to even show comparisons between a large creature to a little person. The trolls are represented as the reader would think of them in the book, but better dialog in the movie in which it feels the…

The Importance of a Hero’s Skills in Their Journey The strength of the traditional Greek hero Heracles is widely known and distinct from the skills (riddle-solving, planning, and stealth) of Bilbo Baggins, the protagonist from The Hobbit, who was both a non-traditional and traditional hero. However, these abilities, though they differ, were all significant in overcoming the perils and hurdles that the heroes encountered during their journey. The skills of all types of heroes (traditional, non…

few differences. Written by J.R.R Tolkien, and directed by Peter Jackson, The Hobbit is a miraculous journey and development of a small Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. He faces countless life threatening situations in his journey to the fearless dragon, Smaug at the end who holds all of the dwarves’ treasure in his lair. Specifically in chapter 5, Riddles in the Dark, Bilbo wakes up and is alone under the mountain with only his sword and a mysterious ring and is searching through the tunnels under…

A large part of our modern day interpretation of what a hero is comes from medieval texts, legends, and epics. These tales more often than not star brave knights, volunteering for quests, leading armies, and killing dragons. Tolkiens view of heroism focuses less on strength and power and more on ethics and true human, or should I say Hobbit, development. In the beginning of the novel no one, not the dwarfs or even Bilbo himself can imagine himself being truly helpful to the cause. If it wasn’t…

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who never once dreamed of going on an adventure, suddenly got chosen by Gandalf to become the fourteenth member of Thorin and Company's adventure to reach the Lonely Mountain and take it back from Smaug. Bilbo is a Baggins, the heir of a thoroughly respectable and conventional family through his father, but his mother was a Took, an eccentric clan of hobbits noted for their love of excitement and adventure. Despite having more money, the Tooks were less respected than the…

In every person's life journey there will be hardships, and only if they persevere and trust in God will they succeed in life. Perseverance is something the dwarf company showed throughout The Hobbit book. Just like the Jews of the Holocaust and even dating back to the Jews in ancient Bible times, the dwarves survived a tragedy. Only through extreme perseverance did the dwarf company and Jews survive. This perseverance is what every person would need to get through life. Only in the complete…

The Lord of the Rings is an epic trilogy that leads the viewer through mystical lands and intense gore filed battles. Lord of the Rings is a series of novels by J.R.R Tolkien that was made into three films and effectively created one of the most loyal fan bases. The Lord of the Rings is a movie franchise that has not only been shown throughout many age groups but also has made impacts on the film industry entirely. These films will go down in history as one of the greatest films of the 21st…

Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

hide to stand up to his mighty jaws. Flimsy things like plastic, paper, and shoes can never meet his standards because he instantly chews them into shreds. His favorite possessions are his food items, especially slabs of animal hide. Just like how Smaug the dragon is with his gold, my dragon will fiercely protect his rawhides with all his power. If someone threatens to take it away, he bares is teeth and starts on his blazing road of destruction. He roars and howls and rages uncontrollably until…