Smaug's Change In The Hobbit

At the beginning of the adventure, Bilbo was a timid, little hobbit with no idea how to steal or survive outside of his little hobbit hole. When Thorin and the rest of the dwarves first meet Bilbo, they question

Bilbo Baggins a hobbit who was very rich and very peculiar. He lived in Bad End, the greatest place in Shire. He has no close friends except Frodo, his cousin who was adopted as his heir. Bilbo announced that he would hold a party to celebrate his 111 birthday. He invited one hundred and forty four guests. There was also Gandalf the Wizard, whose fame in the Shire was due mainly to his skill with fires, smokes, and lights. The day finally came. It was the party started with many entertainments. The hobbits were having fun until it came to Bilbo’s speech. He welcomed his forty four guests to his party and announced unexpected thing. He said that he was leaving and he was gone in a blink of an eye. The guests are speechless as the stood still in silent. While he was making his speech, he had been fingering the golden ring in his pocket and slipped it on. He was planning to leave and to have a permanent holiday. He left an envelope with the ring inside to Gandalf to give it for his cousin, Frodo. Frodo rushed back to Bag End and he

Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach” (Tolkien 141-142). This event has led to Bilbo beginning to believe in himself, which is an important contribution to his overall development into the hero of this tale. Finally, when Bilbo is met with the task of meeting the dragon Smaug, he does not turn back. Even when he must walk alone through the dark, secluded hallway to Smaug’s lair knowing that he could meet his doom at any instant, he walked on. His internal being knows this is his final test of courage, and his will to carry on demonstrates his final development into a hero.

Bilbo, the not so timid hobbit anymore, turns into a bold, audacious hero once he uses the ring that makes him invisible to escape the mountain and turn the Arkenstone over to the Elvenking and Bard to try to prevent the war.

Bilbo lives a quiet and comfortable life in his hobbit hole in Bag end and he almost never leaves home. But the wizard knows that there is more to Bilbo that meets the eye and he has certain powers that can help the dwarves in their journey to

By: Rutherford Medley In the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins starts out peacefully relaxing outside his Hobbit hole, happy being all alone with peace and quiet. Gandalf pays him a visit and puts a strange marking on his door. Those markings said, “Burglar wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable reward.” This is why the dwarves brought him on an adventure to find treasure and claim back the Dwarves kingdom from the evil dragon Smaug.

When a book is written well, producers and directors idolize it and want to make a film of it. However these movie spinoffs often omit scenes or change scenes that were very important in the book. This is where the hobbit comes in. The Hobbit was written by J.R.R. Tolkien, and the movie was directed by Peter Jackson. In the story Bilbo is a hobbit from the shire that one day gets chosen by Gandalf (a magical wizard) to become a part of an adventure. He is called to be a burglar and to steal gold from a dragon that took from dwarves many years ago. I believe that in the movie, the scene where Bilbo encounters Smaug there are two main differences between the book and the movie that really weakened

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

Smaug assumes the company is involved with the men of Lake Town, and so he sets off to attack them. The company is trapped in the darkness behind the destroyed door and don’t know the whereabouts of Smaug. While everyone else has lost hope, Bilbo has a lightening of heart and declares there is still hope instead of sulking. He remembered something his father used to say and says, “While there is life, there’s hope.” As well as, “Third time pays for all.” From these two statements he shows he will not give up and he is willing to prove his worthiness on this quest, instead of wanting to return home. He then risks a third time confronting the dragon, and goes down the tunnel. He slips on his ring and calls out to Smaug, but there is no reply.

He keeps everything to himself and has a low sense of confidence and wisdom of such any undertaking venture. Until 13 dwarves and a wizard came long, Bilbo was ruzed into helping the dwarves asset their gold over the brimming mountains abducted by a fire- breathing dragon, Smaug. Throughout their march to the Lonely Mountains, the dwarves and hobbit were interrogated with spiders, flies, trolls, goblins, elves and Lake men. Through the first part of the campaign, the dwarves were tramping through a lightness, dungeon-like tunnels with bilbo being hoisted up by Dori. On spur of moment, Bilbo was grappled from behind and no one knew who or what it was. The hobbit fell and bowled over a boulder making him unconscious. Furthermore into the dim tunnels Bilbo has awaken, and was challenged to exchange riddles with a creature that threatened to devour him if he does not answer his riddles correctly. Small slimy creature, no one knew where it derived from. Golum was its name. Throughout the riddles, Bilbo obtained assurance from not getting eaten by

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

“ (213) This task the Dwarfs put Biblo up to was not only life threatening, but it put Biblo in a situation which made him have to face his fears and overcome them, alone. Once Biblo got to the end of the tunnel, he got a clear view of the Smaug, who was asleep on the “countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light. ”(215) Right once Biblo saw all the treasures, his desire grew.

In J. R. Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins transformed from being a hobbit to a hero when he was called to adventure when the dwarfs came to his house unexpectedly. On his adventure he went through the road of trials where he kills a spider which gives him confidence. He took Smaug’s cup, during the road of trials, which awoken Smaug in an anger and made Bilbo look like a thief. Bilbo’s call to adventure (Tolkien 4) happened when the dwarves and Gandalf showed up at Bilbo’s house unexpectedly. Gandalf told Bilbo that they needed him to go on a journey with them to get the Arkenstone.

Later on, Bilbo and the Dwarves were on there way when suddenly the dwarves where cot in giant spider webs. Before Bilbo would not have known what to do but now his hero instincts kicked in and he spring into action. Bilbo slipped on the ring and grabs his sword goes right around the spider and cuts the web. If Bilbo was not becoming a hero ether he would have left them there. Now that Bilbo is becoming a hero he not only saved the dwarves he was not afraid.

The Hobbit directed by Peter Jackson is a movie that lets you see how the underdog goes from being small and not noticed to becoming the hero that will bring back hope and save the day. Everyone likes a good underdog story and I for one think that The Hobbit is a perfect example of it. Throughout this movie, it slowly makes the main character Bilbo Baggins more of the light in dark and makes him become more hero like with each passing event. Throughout this movie, the tone helps to bring out the inner heroism and light in Bilbo. In the start of the movie, Bilbo gets 13 uninvited guests that show up and ask him to join them on their mission to take back their home, the Lonely Mountain. This is a very powerful scene with a very serious underlying tone to it. The scene starts off with playful banter and fun throughout the 12 dwarfs but when Thorin Oakenshield arrives the mood gets very serious by how the music changes and the interaction between characters. The music was a big hint in the serious tone since it went from more upbeat and energetic to a softer volume and slowed down a bit. The characters interactions are still friendly with each other but when confronting Bilbo they get more focused. The body language is also stiffer and less carefree when the call for help is talked about. Another scene is where Bilbo's ability to bring out some hope is when the Company has to get back there ponies from 3 mountain trolls. During this scene Bilbo has to bite back is fear of the