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    Music In The Hobbit

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    Music is featured in many different things, such as films, novels, and television. Music also plays a role in the development of the magical beings from The Hobbit. In the novel the dwarves, elves, and goblins sing a musical tune. It sets the tone in the chapter they are in ,but it also has different content and structure.The reader meets the dwarves, elves ,and the goblin that reveals something about each creature. When the reader learns about the dwarves he knows little about them. Immediately

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    Bilbo In The Hobbit

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    In the novel, The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, Bilbo Baggins encounters endless confrontations and setbacks, but along the way he somehow finds himself. Bilbo enjoys a peaceful life, but is interrupted by a surprise visit by the wizard Gandalf. By accepting the challenge to go with him, Bilbo doesn’t know what lies ahead of him. Bilbo, even from the start doesn’t want to partake in the enduring journey. After Gandalf insisted upon him tagging along Bilbo said, “Sorry! I don’t want any adventures,

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    Hobbit And Greed

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    time. When he was able to be with his children, he was motivated to give them a better world to look at. Due to his studies in different cultures and languages he was able to create Middle Earth, a land where there are elves, orcs, dwarves, wizards, hobbits, humans, and many more mythical creatures some created by Tolkien himself. Tolkien was motivated to create a new world for his children to experience instead of the chaos filled world during their lives, and was inspired by his studies in

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    Singing In The Hobbit

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    Each of the magical creatures in “The Hobbit” have certain tunes, tones, and styles of singing. Some are joyous and adventurous, others can be sad, dark, or unsettling. The 3 creatures that have been shown to sing in the first five chapters are Dwarves, Elves, and Goblins. Their singing defines their characters and what the seek among their journies through their life. Their character will be read like an open book when their songs are listened to closely. The Dwarves’ songs are full of adventurous

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    The Hobbit Monologue

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    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

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    Dwarves In The Hobbit

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    When someone sings a song, the song always has a very important role. Music in general can tell alot about someone, or creature. In The Hobbit, the dwarves, elves, and goblins all sing song referring to the situation and in their personality. The dwarves song is about their quest, the elves is sang about the dwarves coming into their valley, and the goblins sang about the torture sounds of Goblin town. In the dwarves song was to the taker of their belongings. They sang about where it is and how

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    Evil In The Hobbit

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    In the book The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien is an adventurous fantasy where the characters have many different character traits that could be good or even bad. They have to use their intelligence instead of physical strength. Thus their intelligence matters more for their adventure so they can continue and survive the problems they receive in this adventure. In this book Intelligence, negative, and positive character traits are essential to their adventure. First the characters in the story have

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    The Hobbit Themes

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    The novel The Hobbit was written by J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien served in WW1 and was a professor at Oxford. Other well known works of his include The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He died at the age of eighty-one on September 2, 1973. This book won the Carnegie Medal and was awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune of best juvenile fiction. Major motion pictures have been made for both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The theme of The Hobbit is Bilbo’s journey

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    Themes In The Hobbit

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    In the book the Hobbit, a young hobbit named Bilbo Baggins encounters a wizard named Gandalf who urges him to join him and a group of dwarves on a journey. Bilbo declines Gandalf’s offer after hearing about the dangers they may encounter but soon thinks twice about his decision and joins Gandalf and the dwarves on the journey. All through the journey, Bilbo and his crew face many obstacles including malicious goblins, wolfs, trolls, and other geographical obstacles. Throughout the book, many important

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    The Hobbit Songs

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    “The mountain smoked beneath the moon; The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.(15)” The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is a tale comprised almost solely of mystique and heroics. One facet of this precious story is given through song. The songs are meant to give a picture of the past and also to foreshadow what is to come. In the case of the dwarf party, their songs spoke of a past event, the moving of a wind over the land, and their triumphant return to the halls of their ancestors. Song singing is

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