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    Symbolism In The Hobbit

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    symbolizes an act of bravery by going on the quest and in the process it may ruin his family’s good name. Bilbo’s life symbolizes death and resurrection by succumbing to his original characteristics in the beginning of the book like being shy‚ timid and a hobbit that enjoyed a comfortable unambitious life rather than exploring and going on adventures‚ so this can represent

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    heroes’ every turn‚ to the deep woods where their adventures seem to go awry. Tolkien’s characters experience from region to region the glamourous figures that cross through dense woods and winding rivers to guide them on their way‚ he excludes concrete religious deities as a factoring role among the adventures he has created. The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are syncretic endeavors in which Tolkien synthesizes different religious traditions into a unifying spirituality rather than infusing his world

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    Dwarves In The Hobbit

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    In the book The Hobbit dwarves‚ elves‚ and goblins have already been revealed to us. Each one has a different perspective on things. They act totally different from each other and desire different thing too. Dwarves act in a more simpler way. See dwarves are high spirited and work really hard but depending on the situation they can get a little malicious. In the book when the dwarves were singing the content of the words were small in sized paragraphs. The tone seemed fairly joyful and pretty

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    The Hobbit Greed

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    Armor “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien is a sprawling fantasy adventure world infused with magic and Medievalism. Tolkien‚ a renowned philologist and admired Oxford professor‚ crafted languages‚ lineages‚ and legends to add layers of depth to his tale. Each mythical race detailed in his story is equipped with their own culture and society‚ and often artifacts of great power and purpose are crafted from the forges of the Elves and the Dwarves. Among Frodo Baggins’s possessions‚ his Mithril

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    Hobbit Essay

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    The Hobbit 5 paragraph essay “Soon the goblins had a ring of smoke and flame all round the dwarves‚ a ring which they kept from spreading outwards; but it closed slowly until the running fire was licking the fuel piled under the trees. Smoke was in Bilbo’s eyes‚ he could feel the heat of the flames( even though he was so high up in the trees); and through the reek he could see the goblins dancing round and round in a circle like people round a midsummer bonfire. Outside the ring of dancing warriors

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    One will learn more about the nature of hobbits and dwarves‚ wizards and elves‚ one will infer more about Gollum and why Bilbo’s meeting with him was so important in the event of the lord of the rings‚ in addition‚ they essentially follow the same story line and that is one reason to read the hobbit first. Another thing is that Tolkien wrote in a style that is a bit more formal and more intellectual than most modern fiction writers. Also reading the hobbit first before reading Lord of the Rings has

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    Dale In The Hobbit

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    The fantasy book called The Hobbit is written by J.R.R. Tolkien. In this book‚ Thorin showing his greediness leads him to a lot of problems. All he wants is the role to be the King Under the Mountain and the Arkenstone. While Thorin is trying to get the Arkenstone and the role of being the right heir of Dale‚ he lands in a lot of trouble which makes him change his attitude. The first night of Dale‚ everyone jumps up and down as they hear the news that Smaug is dead. Thorin thanks Roac and asks everyone

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    “With a Shriek that deafened men‚ felled trees and split stone‚ Smaug shot spouting into the air‚ turned and crashed down on high ruin”(Tolkien 224).This is the last we hear of Smaug‚ before his death in The Hobbit. Smaug is the last major problem between the company and the treasure‚ and needs to be stopped in order for the treasure to go back to Thorin’s family. Bard a member of Laketown‚ takes the challenge trying to protect his town‚ and not caring or knowing what this could do for someone else

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    Plan 1. Figures of quantity: hyperbole; meiosis (litotes). 2. Figures of quality: metonymy (synecdoche‚ periphrasis‚ euphemism); irony. 3. Figures of contrast: oxymoron; antithesis. 4. Practical assignment Metonymy‚ another lexical SD‚ - like metaphor - on losing its originality also becomes instrumental in enriching the vocabulary of the language‚ though metonymy is created by a different semantic process and is based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena. Transference

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    The two perspectives on savior siblings which seek to discuss if it is ethically appropriate to conceive a savior sibling. Through analyzing and evaluating whether or not the inherent dignity of the sick and savior sibling is upheld. This is using the four quadrant framework to help justify on a personal (the savior sibling) and a social level whether it is ethically just to create savior siblings. To an extent commodifying the inherent dignity of a person‚ to savior‚ another is the person can be

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