3.03 Reading Log
DEFINITIONS
1. Ominous: Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen.
2. Promontory: A point of high land that juts out into a large body of water.
3. Vagabond: A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.
4. Enmity: The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
5. Disembarked: Leave a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
6. Waning: (Of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.
7. Lintel: A horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window.
QUESTIONS
1. It is easier for the men of the lake-town to believe in Smaug rather then Thorin and company in the middle of the wild because Smaug is a real threat and is a real thing- he has terrorized the lake-town before and has flown all around. Thorin is much more mysterious and a newcomer to the land after his grandfather’s and father’s was taken by Smaug.
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The men of the lake-town refused to stay overnight where the dwarves disembarked because it was in the Lonely Mountain’s shadow.
3. The surroundings that the company trekked through (also known as the Desolation of the Dragon) had little grass, neither bush nor tree, and broken and blackened stumps.
4. The dwarf that informs Bilbo that he was in Dale the day the dragon attacked was Balin.
5. Bilbo and his companions discovered some things on their scouting expedition such as:
• Finding rough steps that lead
1. Ominous: Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen.
2. Promontory: A point of high land that juts out into a large body of water.
3. Vagabond: A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.
4. Enmity: The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
5. Disembarked: Leave a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
6. Waning: (Of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.
7. Lintel: A horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window.
QUESTIONS
1. It is easier for the men of the lake-town to believe in Smaug rather then Thorin and company in the middle of the wild because Smaug is a real threat and is a real thing- he has terrorized the lake-town before and has flown all around. Thorin is much more mysterious and a newcomer to the land after his grandfather’s and father’s was taken by Smaug.
2. …show more content…
The men of the lake-town refused to stay overnight where the dwarves disembarked because it was in the Lonely Mountain’s shadow.
3. The surroundings that the company trekked through (also known as the Desolation of the Dragon) had little grass, neither bush nor tree, and broken and blackened stumps.
4. The dwarf that informs Bilbo that he was in Dale the day the dragon attacked was Balin.
5. Bilbo and his companions discovered some things on their scouting expedition such as:
• Finding rough steps that lead