(B) Their strength is tripled. (C) They turn to stone. (D) They become invisible. 3. What is Gollum’s name for his ring? (A) Darling (B) Precious (C) Sting (D) Goblinkiller 4. Who kills Smaug? (A) Gandalf (B) Thorin (C) Bilbo (D) Bard 5. Who is the master of Rivendell? (A) Elrond (B) Smaug(C) Gandalf (D) Celeborn 6. What effect does the magic ring have? (A) It turns its wearer to stone. (B) It makes its wearer invisible. (C) It triples its wearer’s strength. (D) It gives its
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The road towards self discovery truly is one with numerous hardships and conflicts. In the story “The Hobbit” the central character Bilbo Baggins undergoes many situations in which he discovers himself. In the story “The Hobbit” Hobbits are described as little people who love good food‚ comfort‚ and security being more then contented with just living a nice and quiet lifestyle. Even though most Hobbits seem to be like these people Bilbo’s ancestery on his mother’s side is full of adventurous Hobbits
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Bilbo was one you would never expect to do anything unexpected. He was well respected and renowned in the land of the Shire‚ being one who scoffed and crinkled his nose at the thought of adventure. But once tangled into the fate of a wizard‚ one named Gandalf the Grey‚ and a company of dwarves‚ Bilbo’s opinion changed within the span of a single night. But he does more than that‚ he transforms into a hero. This story very closely follows the heroe’s journey beginning to end except where a few
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HOW IS RACE PORTRAYED IN THE HOBBIT BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN? J.R.R. Tolkien began writing The Hobbit in 1930 and it was published in 1937. In 1930s Europe‚ the political climate was turbulent. The Great Depression of the 1930s crippled the world’s economy. The rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930s emphasized its hatred of the Jews as a race and not only the Jewish religion. There were frequent pogroms of Jewish people occurring in Eastern Europe and the rise of Nazism in Germany led to the mass extermination
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As children develop into adults‚ certain events and time periods stand out as the reason for important changes in their character. J.R.R. Tolkien portrayed the main character of The Hobbit‚ Bilbo Baggins‚ as a child on his trip into adulthood. Throughout The Hobbit‚ Bilbo Baggins‚ the protagonist‚ changes from a childlike hobbit to a fully matured hero. J.R.R. Tolkien divides the change in Bilbo’s character into the three major part of the book‚ prior to the quest‚ during the quest‚ and after
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or the story and asks him if he wants to be a burglar for the dwarves on their adventure. The dwarves and going on a very long and dangerous adventure to reclaim their treasure in the Lonely Mountain that is being guarded by a powerful dragon named Smaug. The dwarves view the hobbit as helpless and they doubt his ability to perform this job as burglar. Bilbo doesn’t like the idea of the adventure but he is persuaded and tricked into going. In this part of the story Bilbo does not show much bravery
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I enjoyed the novel The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. I believe that this novel presents important themes that are relevant in today’s society‚ just as much as they make up an entertaining plot. Themes such as Heroism‚ Race and Lineage‚ Good vs. Evil‚ Loyalty and Home are discussed in novels written in recent times. They give the reader a strong sense of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ in the plot. This allows the audience to distinguish between good and evil. Tolkien uses an enormous vocabulary of words that are
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battle against the dragon Beowulf “gathered his strength and drew a stabbing knife […] He stuck it deep in the dragon’s flank./ Beowulf dealt it a deadly wound./” (Beowulf 2702-2705). Beowulf’s final victory against the dragon relates to the death of Smaug in The Hobbit when he is shot with a black arrow also in “the hollow by the left breast where the foreleg was flung wide” (Tolkien 228-229). Both protagonists achieve victory in similar events by targeting the weak area of the dragon they were fighting
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Three elbow room that Bilbo Baggins changes from the outset of The Hobbit to the end of the Koran are his savvy of the human beings around him‚ his signified of sport stumble -up ‚ and his want to live a comfortable biography without thought for others. At the 1 sense of begin of the playscript ‚ Bilbo precaution nothing for he creation outside of the Shire horse or outside of his small hobbit menage . But by the end of the volume ‚ his Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun
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multitude of elements that support the conventions of the fantasy genre. Most recurring themes‚ events and characters support the fantasy genre. There is a continuous quest all throughout the novel to retrieve supposed stolen gold from the dragon Smaug‚ there are animals‚ certain races and characters that could not exist in reality‚ and there is magic‚ all of which are classic elements of the fantasy genre. Tolkien has clearly included these in order to support the fantasy genre‚ and to re-affirm
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