Essay about The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein

Now also on a hero’s quest the quester has to have a place to go. Bilbo and the dwarfs are on their way to the Lonely Mountain. The Lonely Mountain is located near a place named Lake Town which is a human settlement. The Lonely Mountain is guarded by a dangerous dragon named Smaug.

After which he puts on his ring of invisibility and taunts the spiders into following him away from his friends. He then doubles back and cuts his friends out of their respective webs. After that there is a long battle the spiders venom had weakened the dwarves almost to a point that they couldn't stand. So Bilbo had to do most of the fighting. He saved his friends. They get away and all live happily ever after… right? No there will be more danger this is only the beginning. After all of Bilbo's friends are saved elves capture them. It is a good thing Bilbo has his ring on. He follows the elves and gets into the place in which they are captured. He then hatches a plan to save them. He has to steal a key when there is a large banquet happening so as most of the elves are busy, then he must release his friends and stow them away in barrels that are to be sent down the river having been used. Now this sounds like a difficult task but not for our friend Bilbo who is very adept at getting out of tight situations. He releases his friends much to all the elves dismay. Then after all the trouble you would think the rest to be a walk in the park. It is just not that easy. Now they must face a dragon, to claim the treasure they were after from the beginning. Bilbo goes into the dragon's cave silently and invisibly but the dragon has an astute sense of smell! Bilbo has been caught. However not completely caught because the dragon can still not

The plot of The Hobbit is centered on Bilbo Baggins, who lived a cozy life in his house-hole in Bag End, in a fantastical world of wizards, dragons, elves, dwarves, giant spiders and goblins. Bilbo is a hobbit, a race of small people half the height of regular people, with hairy feet and a drinking passion. Bilbo lives in Bag End, near Hobbiton, contently, until one fine evening his cozy life is obliterated by the coming of an elderly wizard named Gandalf. He, rather forcefully, persuades Bilbo to set forth on a journey with thirteen little dwarves. The dwarves are setting out on their journey to rid their mountain of a dragon named Smaug and Bilbo is to be

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

When J.R.R tolkien set his himself down to write the hobbit. He was attempting to create a fantasy that addressed the fundamental needs as he saw them of humanity. He wrote about these needs and his purpose in an essay called “J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories” However before I attempt to indulge into Tolkien's work and the underlying factors that influenced him. We must understand that within in his essay addressing fairy tales Tolkien defines fairy stories as “A tale about fairies, or generally a fairy legend; with developed senses,” I will not go into depth on this definition as i feel it is not very important in the grand scheme of things, however i do feel it is important to understand what i will

Bilbo doesn’t know where he is, so he wanders through the mountain passages. On the ground he finds a magic ring. Later, he encounters a ugly creature named Gollum, who lives in a pool in the caverns. Gollum promises Bilbo the way out of the mountain if he answers all of the creature’s riddles correctly and stumps him. If Bilbo fails, he will be eaten.

The Hobbit is about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins who's living in the Shire Hobbiton. A wizard named Gandalf shows up with 13 military dwarfs and asks Bilbo to help reclaim the dwarf’s treasure. On the way they thought run into issues and obstacles. Wondering through tunnels in the Misty Mountains after being left behind, Bilbo find a strange Golden ring that when worn turns you invisible and pockets it. After that he meets back up with Gandalf and the 13 dwarves only to later be abandoned by Gandalf. Bilbo ends up having to rescue the Dwarfs from spiders with his magical sword and new ring. They are soon captured by group of woodland elves who lives near the river that runs to Mirkwood. With the ring Bilbo escapes him and the dwarfs, down the river to arrive at Laketown near the lonely mountain, where Smaug sleeps with Thorin's treasure. Once Bilbo is inside the mountains he talks to the dragon who unknowingly reveals his scales to have a weak spot near his heart. Bard, the archer, knows about the dragon’s weakness and kills him with an arrow before he dies he burns Laketown to the ground. Humans of Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood walk into the lonely mountain for a share of the treasure to compensate for their losses and aid, but Thorin refuses. The humans and Elves surround the mountain trapping the dwarves and hobbit inside. Bilbo sneaks out to join humans and try to bring peace. Once Thorin finds out what Bilbo has done he's mad but Gandalf suddenly appears and

Bilbo being Bilbo, he forgot all about the wizard Gandalf coming over for tea. So, he quickly scurried to set up the table and get the food ready. When he turned the knob at the door he was surprised to find not Gandalf standing at the door, but two dwarfs going by the name of Balin and Dwalin. Though Bilbo had no idea who they were, staying with his manners, he politely welcomed them into his home. A few minutes later, another ring came across, then another, then another. Within moments, the room and kitchen had piled up with dwarfs, nine, to be exact. Then, he heard a loud bang against the door. He had become furious with unexpected guests roaming around his home, so he swiftly opened the door finding Gandalf outside his hobbit hole, as well as 4 other dwarfs whose names included Bombur, Bifur, Bofur, and the most powerful of all, Thorin. The rest of the night was all in all complicated, and odd. As the dwarfs sang and sang, ate and ate, and chattered. The most odd and complicated part of the day, however, was when Thorin and Gandalf made a terrifying and shocking announcement. All of the dwarfs had gathered at Bilbo’s house to meet their journey’s burglar, Bilbo. That’s not all. The journey itself could lead all of the hobbits and dwarfs to victory, or could sacrifice their lives. The object of the adventure, was to hike up to The Lonely Mountain, and recover the jewels and gold which were currently in Smaug the Magnificent’s posession. As Thorin had explained, his grandfather, Thror, and his ancestors had discovered The Lonely Mountain and mined jewels and other precious stones from within the mountains walls. A dragon, Smaug the Magnificent, had swept away all of their jewels and gold, as well as swept away the population of the city Dale. It had been hundreds of years since that had happened, but Thorin was now determined to retrieve back what was his in the first place. Gandalf also presented

This is not the only time Bilbo meets the criteria by far. In Chapter IX: Barrels Out Of Bond after the dwarves have been captured by wood elves (Bilbo avoiding capture by using his ring to turn invisible) Bilbo sneaks around the elves’ realm. All of the dwarves including their leader, Thorin had been captured so the invisible Bilbo spend days looking for ways out and planning an escape. Eventually Bilbo helps the dwarves escape by riding in barrels to Laketown. In Chapter XI: On The Doorstep it is Bilbo who figures out how to open the secret door into the Lonely Mountain and in Chapter XII: Inside Information Bilbo goes into the Lonely Mountain, where the dragon Smaug resides, in order to bring back treasure and find the dragon’s weak spot. Bilbo even keeps the dwarves from dying from the dragon’s flames by telling them to close off the passage outside. Finally in Chapter XVI: A Thief In The Night while the people of Laketown whose town was destroyed as they killed Smaug are arguing with the dwarves in the Lonely mountain because they believe they have earned a share of the gold Bilbo come up with a plan to avoid war. Thorin, leader of the dwarves has shown quite the affinity for a certain stone within the Lonely mountain’s treasure horde known as the Arkenstone. Unknown to the dwarves Bilbo has taken the

Each character, like people in the real world, have to face their fears and overcome obstacles at one point or another. Bilbo, the main character in the novel, has to face the fear of the unknown at the very beginning of the story. Bilbo must make the choice whether to go on the adventure with Gandalf and the dwarves or stay safe at home and continue on his

Indubitably, at the beginning of the quest is where Bilbo feels most discomforted, with the warmth of his hobbit hole suffocating him. This very fact is emphasized during the exposition, when he denies Gandalf’s offer: “We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures…but the old man did not move.” (Tolkien 16) This demonstrates that Bilbo Baggins is stuck in his roots, his morals, and his background. Without a proper call to action, one’s place in society will always reflect upon their character. This is further

The Hobbit takes after the mission of home-cherishing hobbit Bilbo Baggins to win an offer of the fortune watched by Smaug the mythical beast. Bilbo 's trip takes him from cheerful, country surroundings into a viler region. The story is told as a rambling mission, and most sections present a particular animal or kind of creatures of Tolkien 's topography. Bilbo picks up another level of development, capability, and intelligence by tolerating the offensive, sentimental, fey, and brave sides of his temperament and applying his minds and judgment skills. The story achieves its peak in the Battle of the Five Armies, where a considerable lot of the characters and animals from prior sections re-rise to take part in strife.

Bilbo later wakes up in the darkness of the goblin caves. He comes across a lake in the caves, and picks up a ring near it. He meets a creature named Gollum, who challenges him to a game of riddles. After beating Gollum at his riddle game, Bilbo learns that the ring he picked up is a magic ring that Gollum owned that lets the wearer become invisible. Bilbo uses this ring to escape from the now unfriendly Gollum, and the goblin caves as well.

Biblo gets in and steals a heavy two-handed cup from the dragon’s vast hoard of treasure and returns to the dwarfs. In the meantime Bilbo sees the weak point of Smaug. He has a weak point on his chest where he has no armor. Then Smaug notices that cup is missing and he realizes that lake-man of Esgaroth mush have helped them. Smaug flew above and attacked lake-town Dale and destroyed the whole city. But there is an archer in that city, Bard. He takes his great bow and Black Arrow hit Smaug in the weak spot and kills him. Tidings are spreading all over the world that Smaug is dead. So creatures from everywhere arrive to the Mountain to get some piece of from the treasure. Then goblins and Wargs appear. Elves, dwarfs and the humans becomes one against another enemy. They fight together and barely win. Thorin dies at the end of the war. Then everyone goes home. The end. Here is brief summary of the