WCOR

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 10 of 50 - About 491 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Hobbit Research Paper

    • 621 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Hobbit has clearly shown how well the high fantasy fits into the world of our and the Middle Earth. The Middle Earth contains many different creatures and beliefs where they have their own traditions, regions, and languages, which is very unique from our own 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…

    • 621 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    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…

    • 1385 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    On a random Friday night there is a crowd in front of the movie theatre for the premiere of the newest Avengers. A group of friends streams the latest season of Orange is the New Black on Netflix. Multiple people pick up George R.R. Martin’s new book in the bookstore. It is no secret that the entertainment industry has a heavy influence on American lives. The media has always been the source of controversy regarding its content. However, there is one issue that continues to occur in…

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Heroism In The Hobbit

    • 1140 Words
    • 5 Pages

    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…

    • 1140 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Dragonlance Legend Series There are three books in the Dragonlance Legends series, titled Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins. This fantasy series was written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in 2001. It is set in the mythical world of Krynn where many races roam the land, including humans, dwarves, kender, elves, gnomes, minotaurs, and—who could forget?—goblins. All of the books are written in third person limited, with Caramon’s thoughts being shown but the main…

    • 1321 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    During the time Lewis was in college and later as a tutor for the college, some his readings exposed him to material by christian authors. Those authors were George MacDonald, and G.K. Chesterton,who was also a journalist, this is a quote of Lewis speaking of the effect these two authors had on his atheistic life, “In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading…

    • 706 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bilbo Heroism

    • 757 Words
    • 4 Pages

    A hero is someone who can be there to help out and to save people in need. A hero is supposed to come in and save the day when it is most needed. In The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, some may say that Bilbo is the hero in the story because of all of the heroic acts he did, but the group’s luck helped them get through the events that happened; therefore, luck is the hero. There are possibly three ways luck could be the hero, the group is lucky with helpers, the group is lucky with time, and the group…

    • 757 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    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…

    • 1027 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    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…

    • 949 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Hobbit Allusion Essay

    • 1442 Words
    • 6 Pages

    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…

    • 1442 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Page 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 50