The Hobbit Summary This story of fantasy starts off with Bilbo, a simple hobbit living a simple life, until the wizard Gandalf visits Bilbo Baggins and proceeds to invite him to join an adventure. Bilbo immediately declines, as he is reluctant to leave the safety of his hobbit-hole. The next day, he is then visited by the dwarves who believe Bilbo can be of use to them in their journey to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim their ancestral treasure since he is so quiet on foot, the castle now in the possession of Smaug the evil dragon. Bilbo realizes that Gandalf had told the dwarves he was a burglar. He agrees to go, but he changes his mind the next morning. Gandalf urges him to join them, however and he makes his final decision, they depart. …show more content…
As the landscape becomes dark and dreary and the group faces hunger and attacks from hostile creatures, Bilbo thinks very fondly of home and he questions his decision to come on this journey. The group encounter trolls who capture the group and tie them up into sacks, planning to eat them later. They are later rescued by the wizard Gandalf and Bilbo. They use a key to unlock the trolls' secret cave, where the travelers find riches and weapons. They travel after on to the valley of Rivendell, and stay at the home of Elrond, a hospitable elf leader. Elrond translates Thorin's map, which clarifies the importance of Durin's Day. After weeks, Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves resume their journey. Approaching up to the Misty Mountains, they then take shelter from a brewing storm in a cave that turns out to be the King Goblin's cavern. The Goblins capture the group and take their horses. Gandalf kills the Great Goblin and frees Bilbo and the dwarves. The travelers try to find their way out of the cave, but Bilbo falls on his way out …show more content…
They rescue Bombur, from a fall into the lake. They approach a party of feasting elves. Bilbo is captured by a spider, but fights his way free with the sword he took from the trolls; he names it Sting. Wearing the ring of invisibility, he frees the dwarves who have been bound in spiders' webs and reveals to them the secret of the ring. Bilbo and the dwarves find that Thorin has been captured by elves, all the dwarves are captured and thrown into the dungeon under the palace of the Elven king. Bilbo escapes because he is wearing the ring, and he wanders around the Elven king's palace until he has developed a plan to free his comrades. He hides them in empty wine barrels that are dropped through the floor of the palace and float down the river to Esgaroth or Lake-town. Bilbo and the dwarves then move on and disembark near the
Many showed up in groups of three or four, so that Bilbo couldn’t just turn them all down. They later asked him to come on their adventure with them. The dwarves had told Bilbo about their treasure that was stolen and Bilbo suggested that they go to Lonely Mountain to reclaim it. Bilbo really doesn't want to but feels forced to go. They left a piece of Bilbo's notebook paper on his mantle under a clock showing all the dangers he might encounter. Gandalf had come to tell him that he was going to be late if he did not leave soon to be with the dwarves, causing him to feel forced to go. In the movie, however, Bilbo Baggins is presented with a contract from the others involving his burglar services that he will use on the journey with them. He grabs a backpack before he runs out to catch up with the others. This makes the movie more realistic because no normal person would go on an adventure without grabbing anything for the long journey ahead. Bilbo now had a few items from his hobbit hole that would remind him of his home. The book shows Bilbo as more of a reluctant hero. In the book, Bilbo finds the letter on the mantle and decides to go at the last minute. He seems to have felt pressured, resulting in just running out of the hole and not grabbing any of his belongings. He leaves
The dwarves were on a quest to find and reclaim their famous treasure from the great dragon Smaug. It would be a long and difficult journey, and they felt it would be made simpler with the help of a burglar. This was what Bilbo was for, even if he didn’t know it. Bilbo didn’t want to be on the adventure, let alone play a vital role in it. But by the time the story concluded, Bilbo had changed from a well-to-do homebody into a burglar.
Bilbo is happy to visit the elves and have tea with Gandalf, but he is also just as happy to relax in his hobbit-hole and enjoy the comforts of home that he longed for so much on his journey. Bilbo Baggins undergoes a hero’s journey in The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. He departs from his home, is initiated into a more mature mindset, undergoes a road of trials, goes through his innermost cave, and is returned home and reintegrated into society. Bilbo’s journey is also a quest for self identity, because he realizes his place as “quite a little fellow in a wide world” and learns to balance out his respectable Baggins heritage with his adventurous Took background (Tolkien 363).
A good adventure can start with the foolishest things planned or not, it's challenges await. Bilbo Baggins is a Hobbit who is one day greeted by a wizard named Gandalf, who invites him on an adventure. Because Hobbits are known for not going on adventures he declined, but once the 12 dwarves came, he was inclined to do so. In The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien uses imagery to assist the reader visualizing the terror Bilbo feels, as he gets over his fear for adventures.
The Hobbit (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien is an exciting novel, an adventure that takes on a whole new meaning. At the start of the novel, Bilbo Baggins, an ordinary hobbit, is doing what the ordinary hobbit does, just staying at home. Hobbits are very comfortable with life and look for no excitement or change whatsoever. When Gandalf shows up on the doorstep of Bilbo Baggins' cave (home), it was a major shock to him. Slowly dwarves show up at his doorstep, after Gandalf leaves, they slowly appear groups at a time. After thirteen dwarves show up on Bilbo's doorstep and make themselves at home, Bilbo starts to freak out and wonders why this is happening to him on a beautiful, and what he thought to be, a normal day. The reason for the dwarves being at his house is the fact that they want Bilbo's help with a plan; to go to Lonely Mountain to retain a treasure that Smaug, the dragon, had stolen long ago from their ancestors.
Every hero changes and grows in a story. Bilbo is no exception. In the very beginning of “The Hobbit”, Bilbo is just like any other hobbit, quiet and comfortable in his little hobbit hole. He prefers to stay out of trouble and never leave the comfort of his home. This is the beginning of his ‘Hero’s Journey’. The Hero’s Journey is an idea that every hero in every story follows. This shows the change and growth in a hero. The steps of the Hero’s Journey includes the call to adventure, the journey through the treacherous lands, the trials and problems the hero has to solve, and defeating the main enemy and receiving his reward. Throughout Bilbo’s journey, he grows and changes. From going on the adventure itself, riddling with Gollum,
Frodo decides to set out to the wise elves of Rivendell accompanied by Sam, Merry, and Pippin his friends. On the way, Sauron’s servants known as black riders and ring wraiths, hunt the four boys who narrowly escape death. Shortly after they reach Bree. They meet a suspicious looking man who turns out to be Gandalf‘s friend. He tells them that he will lead them to Rivendell.
But Bilbo decides to go anyway and he doesn't fight at first but once he see's one of the dwarfs in trouble Bilbo helps him out even though the dwarf Thorin didn't think he was supposed to be the one for the fourteenth man of expedition but fortunately Bilbo ends up staying to fight with the dwarfs to get their home
In chapter four a massive storm hits and the dwarves and Bilbo find cover in a cave, which actually belong to a group of goblins. Durin...
The Hobbit, written by John R. R. Tolkien, is a fantasy novel published on September 21, 1937. It was written as a prelude to the famous series, The Lord of the Rings, written seventeen years later. The Hobbit introduces the reader to an incredibly immersive fantasy world, that enriches the reader into its epic storyline. The story takes place in a land called Middle-earth, a land filled with enchanting surprises and magical wonders. It was the perfect playground for Tolkien to develop his main character Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo Baggins was a small hobbit, who unaware in the beginning would become a large role in the plot. It is through this character that Tolkien implemented the theme of heroism into the story. Bilbo’s unexpected adventure with the dwarves and the wizard gave him the opportunity to develop into the ultimate hero of Tolkien’s tale. Bilbo’s epic journey to become the hero of the story begins when Gandalf, the wizard, tells Bilbo of an expedition that would soon change his life forever.
J.R.R Tolkien's action packed, fantasy driven, inspiring novel The Hobbit shows the message that everyone must know, that you should never give up even if all hope seems to be lost. It shows setting of evergreen forests with villages scattered along the paths of which they must take and mountains just on the horizon. The read must go along with bilbo baggins a hobbit that does not realize there is more to him than just being a baggins and that he will live up to his family's name. Even after gandalf tells him that he will embark on a great adventure he still doesn’t believe he is anymore than just bilbo. Therefor this story is inspiring and shows that with the setting, character, and theme combined make this story a great read.
In J.R.R. Tolkien 's novel, The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins goes through a classic representation of the Hero’s Journey. Throughout the story, Bilbo transitions from being a complacent, sheltered hobbit, to a more adventurous hobbit. The Hobbit has all three parts of the hero’s journey; The Departure, Initiation and The Return, all of which is interpreted throughout the quest.
Gandalf has given Bilbo the chance to join him on a journey to reclaim the dwarves’ homeland. At this point Gandalf explains to the Dwarves how Bilbo is the perfect thief for them. (NEED QUOTES) Bilbo has declined Gandalf’s offer to go on the journey. Gandalf has tried to offer Bilbo to join him on the journey multiple times but he still refused to go. As Gandalf goes off without him Bilbo suddenly decides to run after he dwarves to join them on their journey, but at heart Bilbo still does not want contribute in this journey. Bilbo has declined Gandalf’s offer to go on the journey. Gandalf has tried to offer Bilbo to join him on the journey multiple times...
Bilbo shows cleverness and creates a diversion to lure the spiders away, and made an opportunity to set his comrades free. The narrator tells us that Bilbo makes an observation “A stream flowed under part of the lowest regions of the palace, and joined the Forest River some way further to the east beyond the steep slope out of which the main mouth opened” (Tolkien 263). Opportunity arises for Bilbo to free everyone. By riding the barrels the dwarves will escape, but they do not like the idea. Because of Bilbo’s keen observation, he leads the dwarves out of the palace. Bilbo turns into a leader for a reason. He saves the dwarves from a terrible fate because of his clear-headedness and
The book begins with Bilbo Baggins celebrating his one hundred and eleventh birthday. Many "Hobbits" show up at his party including his third cousin, Frodo, which is the main character of the novel and a powerful wizard named Gandalf. Biblo possed a powerful ring known as the "Ruling Ring" which gives "Supreme Power" to whoever has possession of it. At the end of the party, Bilbo uses his magical ring to turn invisible and stun his guests. Gandalf, the powerful wizard, then meets up with Biblo at his house and takes the ring from Bilbo, which is corrupting him. Gandalf examines it, realizing that the ring Bilbo has is the powerful "Ruling Ring". Knowing that the forces of evil are in search of the ring, Gandalf sends Frodo, a relative of Biblo, to destroy the ring in the only place it can be destroyed, "Mt. Doom". Overhearing the talk between Gandalf and Frodo, Sam, a "Hobbit", that is good friends with Frodo is forced on the quest to aid Frodo.