Bilbo Baggins's Influence On The Hobbit

As a professor at Oxford and a lieutenant in World War I, J.R.R. Tolkien’s life must have been difficult, which affects his literary work and his writing style. He created his own world and myth by the vivid imaginations. Each of his books symbolizes something great for example The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings represent thematic features of World War I.

Tolkien’s life likes a story. He moves to another country, studies in a good school, serves the army as a lieutenant, comes back school, and works to become one of the greatest writers. Tolkien was born in 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He lived the first three years of his life in South Africa. After that, he had to leave his homeland to England due to his health. From young ages,

He wrote this during his time as a professor at the Oxford University in 1930. It takes place in the Middle-Earth, an imagination world created by Tolkien himself. The main point is surrounded Bilbo Baggins’s journey. He is a member of hobbits - it is similar to a human, but they are small and have hairy feet - despite his small size body, yet he has a great, dangerous adventure that no one wants to have. The Hobbit is connected to the World War I, Bilbo’s journey with the company of Dwarves can be represented to soldier in the

In its world, Middle-Earth, everything is more itself, “the earth is more earthy, nature is more natural, the history is more historical, the genealogies more genealogical, the tragedy more tragic, the joy more joyful, the caverns more cavernous, the forest more foresty, and heroes more heroic” (Kreeft, 45). Its world is related to the real world, and yet it is greater than the real earth. The story is related to the conflicts of War World I, Elves, the small, immortal and supernatural creature in The Lord of the Rings can be a symbol for Finnish minstrels, and orcs, an enormous and aggressive, are represented to tanks, one of the most destructive weapons in the war. “My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflection of English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself” (Carpenter). Sam Gamgee, one of the main characters, he treated Frodo Baggins as his master; he cooks, cleans and washes his uniform; that look like lower soldiers treats the higher rank soldiers in the battlefield, so Sam can be represented to a common soldier in the battlefield. “Essential of the scenes of Mordor, and the devastation of Mordor are influenced by the scene of No-man’s land of World War” (Ott). No-man’s land is a chaos area mix by destroyed buildings, gray mud, rubble pocked with shell craters, and a lot of corpses. Mordor can be a parallel structure of the scene