Courage In Tolkien's The Hobbit

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“A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning.” This is a book review that New York Times wrote for the book “The Hobbit” by J. R. R. Tolkien.“The Hobbit” tells a story about Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit that live in his sweet house, has invited by the dwarves and his friend Gandalf to a adventuresome journey for get back the kingdom that the dwarves deserved. In their journey, they met different people, such as human, elf, and orcish. The most important thing is that Bilbo Baggins found a magic ring that could make him invisible. “The Hobbit” by J. R. R. Tolkien is a classical masterwork because it use a subtle writing skill …show more content…

R. R. Tolkien shows bravery through “The Hobbit”. A valuable book away contains bravery in it. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, can choose to stay in his cozy little house, instead of that, he choose to follow the dwarves for a adventure. In real life, walk out people’s own comfort zone is really a hard thing and needs a lot of bravery to do it. In the same time, bravery also has shown in the part that the dwarves and Bilbo Baggins was crossing the Mirkwood and they met these huge spiders. Bilbo Baggins could choose to put his magic ring on and run away and left his dwarf friends there eaten by the spiders, but he did not, instead he kill all the scary spiders and rescued all of his friends out. Even though sometimes Bilbo Baggins struggles a lot, but at least he always try to be brave. Bravery is a valuable part in novels and also in real …show more content…

R. R. Tolkien incisively and vividly. Voracity, the most important pieces in this book, could be find in many characters. Gollum once was a happily hobbit, but when he met the ring, he turned into a selfish person, and hide himself in a dark cave with his pleasure ring. J. R. R. Tolkien shows that selfishness and voracity as dark and ugly in his book. In the other hand, when Bilbo Baggins get the ring, he shows out voracity by his actions. J. R. R. Tolkien made the ring stands for something that people loved and be voracity about in his book. Even though voracity stands a bad characteristic, but J. R. R. Tolkien made this bad characteristic full of cautionary. J. R. R. Tolkien used a exclusive writing skill for voracity in his

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