Doors: The Biginning, the Action, and the End

The next part of Bilbo’s development into a hero appears as seemingly endless obstacles and trials. This part is perhaps most important for Bilbo’s progression, as it is here where he develops his heroic characteristics and taps into his inner reserves of strength. The first major trial Bilbo’s group encounters is a group of trolls in their path. Bilbo, having the wise notion, that as his ‘official’ job position of the group is burglar, decides to pickpocket the trolls. A fight ensues, in which the reader is aware of Bilbo’s ineffectiveness. Inevitably, it turns into a disaster, ending up with all of the party captured by the trolls. Luckily, the group is saved by Gandalf. After the encounter with the trolls, the group searches for the troll’s stash only to find it locked. After much time fussing over how to open

Imagine where you can live in a world where the impossible is possible; that world would be Hobbiton. Hobbiton is a place where there are many abnormal creatures such as hobbits. Hobbits are very short person with very huge feet. One of the lonelier hobbits is Bilbo Baggins, a very calm and polite man who does not have very much excitement in his life. That was until Gandalf the grey, who is a wizard, tricks Bilbo into hosting a party full of Thorin and his company of dwarves. Once all the music and chatter calmed down, Gandalf showed a map to a secret entrance to a dragon’s lair full with riches. Thorin wants Bilbo Baggins to be a burglar and steal a gem from the lair that used to belong to the dwarves. This is it would be amazing to become Bilbo Baggins.

It is not just the fact that the band of dwarves encounters enemies in the outside world, but Tolkien’s description of said enemies which really convey a sense of hardship and shatter the reader’s sense of tranquility. These are not just any goblins. These goblins are big, mean, ugly, plentiful, and -perhaps most alarmingly- extremely quick. Tolkien adds a nice touch by using idioms to describe just how quick they are. Frankly, the goblins are scary. These goblins are just the kind of thing one would likely want to hide in a hobbit-hole from. Also, it is worth nothing that much like the weather which interrupts Bilbo’s thoughts of his hobbit-hole, the goblins also interrupt a tranquil scene as Bilbo had been dreaming before they attacked.

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien is about a hobbit called Bilbo Baggins. His father is a Baggins, who are considered respectable, and his mother is a Took, who often went on adventures. One day while in his hobbit hole on The Shire, an old friend of the family, Gandalf, comes by, offering him an adventure, which is declined. Shortly after, while having tea, Bilbo has thirteen dwarves unexpectedly come into his home along with the wizard Gandalf. Among them is Thorin Oakenshield who was a descendant of Thror, the King of the Mountain until it and all its gold was taken by Smaug the dragon. The next morning, mostly by being pressured by Gandalf and the Took side of him, Bilbo meets the others at a hotel,and joins their adventure to go to the dragon, as their burglar. They encounter many challenges along the road such as goblins, geographically dangerous paths, wolves, giant spiders, not having the help of a wizard the whole way, and always running low on provisions. While there were many external conflicts, Bilbo endured many personal conflicts such as desiring to be back in his hobbit hole in safety, and enjoying being a Took and adventurous. During the first encounter with the goblins, Bilbo is left alone and he encounters a creature named Gollum who continuously talked to himself. He finds Gollum’s ring which allows anyone who wears it to turn invisible. The ring helps him along the journey to escape from the goblin hole, and help the dwarves when they’re taken

First, Bilbo helped the dwarves escape from jail. Bilbo remains invisible , stealing food and trying to locate the dwarves. Thorin is in a different secret cell trying to think of a plan. Bilbo finds them and helps them escape the cells, and they use barrels to escape the place. so the elven king .

Memorable, isn't it, the hobbit hole. Throughout the adventure, Bilbo had wished countless times that he could be back in his calm, little hobbit hole, especially when he was in a life or death situation. Anyone would have wished for their comforting home back, but Bilbo was someone who not only liked comfort, but he loved comfort. The author made the readers associate the hobbit hole to comfort, but it isn’t just a comfortable place, it reflects Bilbo’s personality where comfort is something important. The green door with the golden yellow doorknob represent the welcoming, company-appreciating personality that Bilbo has. The polished chairs represent his polished manner. All of this is great but there is one thing that deceives you a little bit - his hobbit utopia. At the beginning of the book, Bilbo has a no adventure policy, and when Gandalf comes to him saying that he has been invited to take part in an adventure, he looks very out of place with his glowing, magical smoke rings. Bilbo doesn't want an adventure. Bilbo doesn't want the glory. Bilbo doesn't want the feeling of energy that adventures bring. All he wants is a comfortable, respected life. Respected by other Hobbits that is. The Took family is less respected in the Hobbit community because their goal is to live simply without any unexpected or surprising events, if they can avoid them. This hobbit hole, Bilbo's home, goes deeper and deeper into the side of the hill. It's like this hill is his comfort zone, or his little utopian dream of having an extremely and ridiculously normal life.

Bilbo used his magic ring to become invisible and that way he was able to help the dwarves escape via barrels on a boat.

In Chapter Eight, the dwarves are captured in webs by giant spiders. Bilbo, who is alone, sees that he has a sword that he had named, Sting, and the ring that he had took from gollum. He uses the ring to turn invisible and slices the webs. The dwarves spot a feast and gets captured again by the elves. Bilbo, who remains invisible, follows the captured dwarves and enters the palace of the

Being a hobbit who's lived his entire life in a comfortable hole in the ground, he's very reluctant to adventure with Gandalf and the dwarves. But when Gandalf leaves the group, Bilbo's heroic instinct kicks in. With the help of his invisibility ring, Bilbo rescues the dwarves whenever they happen to run into trouble, especially throughout Mirkwood, when they run into the spiders or the elves. The bravest thing Bilbo ends up doing, however, comes when he and the dwarves reach the Lonely Mountain. Being the first individual to enter the dragon's lair, he meets the infamous Smaug, discovers a weakness in its armor, and smoothly talks his way out of being eaten by the gargantuan

After beginning his adventure, Bilbo faces one of his most difficult challenges in The Hobbit when Bilbo Baggins faces the Inmost cave stage he fights with Gollum in the cave. Holmes describes the Inmost Cave as “the abyss. This is the greatest challenge that faces the hero” (Holmes). This stage is literally in a dark cave, one that provides a morally challenging and terrifying experience for Bilbo. In the cave, he deals with the Gollum and finds the Ring, changing his character forever. Only once he suffers through his riddle battle with Gollum, he recovers The Ring, a ring that grants its wearer invisibility as they wear the Ring. Bilbo has to deal with a moral dilemma when he must face Gollum and must decide on whether or not to kill Gollum. While in the cave with Gollum, Bilbo put on the Ring, which make him invisible and had to deal with what to do about Gollum in Bilbo’s panic and terrified state: “Bilbo almost stopped breathing, and went stiff himself. He was desperate. He must get away, out of this horrible darkness, while he had any strength left. He must fight. He must stab the foul thing, put its eyes out, kill it. It meant to kill him” (Tolkien 86). He was forced to lose some of his innocent and face the reality of life and death situations. For this difficult battle in the cave, Dorothy Matthews reported in The Psychological Journey of Bilbo Baggins, “In this underground scene he must face an important trial; he must make a decision whose outcome will be a

This earns Bilbo some respect from the dwarves as they begin to realize that he is a beneficial asset to their group. Soon after a threatening thunderstorm occurs which renders Bilbo unconscious in a cave. Later when he awakes, Bilbo finds a ring which he absent-mindedly pockets. Bilbo uses quick-wit and bravery to outsmart Gollum, a creature who lives in the cave, in a game of riddles. Afterwards, when Gollum attempts to kill him, Bilbo uses his new ring to elude the creature by turning invisible and escaping this demonstrates Bilbo's newfound

Even though Biblo was able to escape from Gollum, he still faced many other life threatening challenges during his journey. Some of the challenges included giant spiders, saving dwarfs from jail cells, and being able to overcome his fear of the unknown. However, the greatest challenge that Biblo faced during his journey was traveling into the Smaugs cave. The dwarfs showed Biblo the secret passage to enter the cave, in hopes that Biblo could steal from Smaug, without causing any trouble. The dwarfs, “intended to pay Biblo really handsomely for his services; they had brought him to do a nasty job for them, and they did not mind the poor little fellow doing it if he could; but they would all have done their best to get him out of trouble, if he got into it.

There are few worlds more richly imagined than that of Middle Earth. Both the depth of the setting, and the charming nature of the inhabitants, immediately sparks interest as one begins to peruse Tolkien’s work. Adding a flair of humor to an otherwise timeless adventure novel, The Hobbit is a classic that continually appeals to those with a love of fantasy work. From the beginning, to the end, we see remarkable character development that brings to mind the themes of heroism and humility.

He scrambled about feeling his way through the cave until he comes across something “what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel.” Bilbos discovery of this ring “was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it.”. Bilbo journeyed on through the cave in despair until he finds a strange creature spying on him, its name was Gollum, Gollum is described as a “small slimy creature” with “pale-lamp like eyes”. Gollum snuck up on Bilbo out of nowhere and started questioning him on who he was and where he came from in which Bilbo replied that he was lost and needed help finding his way out of the mountain cave. Gollum then proposed a game of riddles to Bilbo who wasn’t quite sure what was going on, if Gollum wins he eats Bilbo, but if Bilbo wins Gollum shows Bilbo the way out of the cave. Bilbo agrees as he had no idea how to get out and this was the only option he had. “what have I got in my pocket?” asked Bilbo as he was running out of riddles to use. Gollum was getting frustrated as he couldn’t figure out the answer, and eventually used up all three guesses he had. Gollum grows weary of what actually was in Bilbos pocket but Mr Baggins does not reveal, this makes Gollum even more frustrated. Eventually Gollum agrees to show Bilbo the way out, but he needs to gather some things (the ring) first before he guides Bilbo out of the cave and into the wild. When Gollum comes back he is in a

The quest that has been assigned to the dwarves In fact, the quest for Bilbo is not only a search for the treasure but also for the hidden aspects of his character. Looking at Bilbo in the terms of good and evil Bilbo rises to be the leading force in the fight that the good endures against the evil beings. He remains an