Bilbo And Gandalf: The Use Of Power

Gandalf is a character in the hobbit series, he is the main mastermind behind the dwarves mission, he is a very powerful wizard that helps guide Bilbo and the whole company through emanate danger.

By putting his life in danger Bilbo shows a true example of heroism. Though the dwarves were still skeptical of his abilities, they were starting to take into consideration of what Gandalf had said about this little hobbit. Continuing their adventure the group is attacked by goblins where they are eventually saved by Gandalf. Throughout the turmoil of the attacking goblins Bilbo gets lost in the caves and finds himself alone in the darkness. It is in this event when Bilbo finds Gollum’s ring. Gollum was a sickly looking creature that had been dwelling in the caves for many years. Bilbo used his wits to outsmart the creature by playing a riddle game with him and eventually made it to safety. Having Bilbo win the riddle game shows that his smart and witty mind aids him in becoming the hero. Bilbo wasn’t some tough strong stereotypical super hero, he used his smarts to outwit his foes and to triumph over evil. Though Bilbo at the time did not know the power of the ring that he had retrieved from Gollum’s lair (the power of invisibility), it was his heroic fate that he found it as it assist him in becoming the hero of the story. Fate has it that Bilbo will become a hero, but Bilbo also has the courage on top of his fate to get the dwarves out of life threatening situations.

Conflict; the struggle between opposing forces. In the book” the hobbit” the protagonist named Bilbo conveys a struggle between his personality. His mother, born into the took family has always had an extreme thirst for adventure. Although his father was born into the Baggins family, which life consist of normal hobbit behavior. Bilbo is torn between following his adventurous pursuits or continuing to live a typical hobbit life.

It’s not just the ring that gives him power, it is his overwhelming strength and courage he possesses. He defies all odds and takes on a daunting evil force with nothing but an army of dwarfs, a tiny sword, and a ring of invisibility. Many believed such a small, feeble creature could not do such a task, but throughout his quest he had companions that tested his boundaries and unlocked his power. The courage and leadership he took on brought him from the Shire, to the land of the elves, to the land of mortals, and to the land of the dwarfs. He fought ogres, trolls, goblins, and a dragon with just his courage and wits. The power he had was unmatched throughout the whole story, even when the strongest of the strong and the biggest of the big faced against him, Bilbo still prevailed victor. He didn’t use his size or strength to fight, he used his own unique abilities to fight. The power he weld was not with a sword or magic, but with his wits and courage. This is the most important lesson Tolkien wanted the reader to learn, whenever you are up against hardship courage and wits prevail against brute strength and

Although hard at times Bilbo still perseveres, but with help along the way. Gandalf was Bilbo’s mentor or supernatural helper. Gandalf guides Bilbo along his journey and helps him in any way he can like when Gandalf helped Bilbo defeat the trolls. After the sun turns the trolls into stone the dwarves, Gandalf, and Bilbo raided the trolls cave and found Sting(as well as Glamdring and Orcrist). Sting is Bilbo’s sword that was made by elves long ago.

J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel, The Hobbit, explains how the good, the evil, and the humans affect with society today. This is because of important virtues and vices that define people. For example, a good person has traits of love, courage, and respect towards humanity while a bad person has traits of hatred, violence, and malevolence against humanity. A good person symbolizes an innocent nature where people care for others, speak kindly to people, and can be trusted in tough situations. However, a bad person walks in an evil nature which the enemy harms people with violence, speaks violently against people, and makes deceitful plots against people.

The thing that would be more important at this point in the book would be either strength or intelligence. The thing that would be most important right now for Bilbo would be intelligence the reason why intelligence would be important is because it would help Bilbo and the others get through the evil they would have to face. One of the evils they have to face is a dragon and the other evil they have to face is evil wolves.The other reason I would choose intelligence is because he would be smart,brave and fearless.

In every story, there is always a beginning. The story of the ring began when “Bilbo was lost for a while in the black orc-mines deep under the mountains, and there, as he groped in vain in the dark, he put his hand on a ring, lying on the floor of a tunnel.” (Tolkien II) While Bilbo was trying to find the way out, he met Gollum, who was once a hobbit-kind of creature. “Gollum challenged Bilbo to riddle-game, saying that if he asked a riddle which Bilbo could not guess, then he would kill him and eat him; but if Bilbo defeated him, then he would do as Bilbo wished: he would lead him to a way out of the tunnels.” (Tolkien II) Later, Bilbo won the game and escaped from the tunnel by the help of the power of the ring. From there, the story of

An Unlikely Hero When people think of a hero or heroic traits they think of someone who is tall, strapping, courageous and handsome. They tend not to think of some like Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, who desires nothing more than to stay put in the comfort of his hobbit hole. J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit challenges this stereotype by taking Bilbo out of his comfort zone and onto a quest like none other. Heroism would not be a trait attributed to Mr. Baggins, but over the course of his journey he abandons his hesitant nature and demonstrates how he can be a hero. After losing Bilbo in the tunnels the dwarves are upset that he even came along, but Bilbo, invisible, says, “And here’s the burglar!”

In J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy novel “The Hobbit”, Bilbo Baggins likes to keep to himself, safe and sound in his cozy home, until Gandalf pushes him to go on an adventure with the dwarves. Bilbo is very insecure about himself, and is very uncomfortable-but Gandalf sees potential in Bilbo that Bilbo himself cannot. Like Gandalf pushed Bilbo, it is important to have a “Gandal” in our lives. It is important to have a “Gandalf”, because they push us to our full potential, they believe in us, and they help us to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. If Gandalf had not seen potential in Bilbo, then he would have never pushed and encouraged him to go on the adventure.

Gandalf is wise and intelligent, and he shows that whenever he encounters a . He has the ability of reading peoples insight; he can analyze their character and sculpt to the best of what it can be. This makes him invulnerable to all the lies he hears from his enemies, makinghim choose the right path. One of his choices was when he assigned Bilbo to Thorin’s as an ally and an assistant, since Gandalf believes that Bilbo has trustworthy and bright minded; he didn't someone else knowing that there may be risks.

Knowledge is Power The quintessential well-rounded life is one full of knowledge, as a life laden with knowledge is a life with direction, and power. This concept is not only present in the real world, but also in literature. J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit especially reflects this idea, for without the guidance of knowledge, it is unlikely that Bilbo and the group would have ever left Bag End.

As Bilbo stood up as a leader; goblins had created one of several problems for Bilbo. As an attempt to start Bilbo’s role as a burglar. Bilbo had decided to attempt to pickpocket the goblin as practice. This lead to trouble asserting itself among Bilbo ,and Gandalf coming to help where Bilbo learned several things.

In this paragraph we will be talking about who Gandalf is, how strong Gandalf is, and what side Gandalf if fighting for. Gandalf is an angelic being who used to live in the Undying Lands of Valinor where the elves called him Olodrin. When Gandalf first came to Middle-Earth he was part of a group of five Istari but only three stayed to help Middle-Earth. When Gandalf befriended the lord of the elves, Cirdan, he was bestowed with the Elven Ring of Fire, one of the 20 rings of power, that was called Narya. There are other people with rings of power, including Gandalf, but in the fight against Sauron the ring's powers can’t be used to directly attack Sauron. With the powers of Narya, the Elven Ring of Fire, Gandalf has enhanced powers of

Luckily enough Bilbo was not evil, but he was not aware of the powers and how quite literally had the whole world in his hands. That is why Gollum wanted the ring. A disgusting bottom dweller like himself knew he could obtain all this power and he was intrigued by the invisibility powers because I mean that's pretty cool. The ring represented power and how the world could change with on twirl of the finger, good or