Examples Of Courage In The Hobbit

Gandalf

By: Cassidy boynton#3

“ True courage is about knowing when to take a life and when to spear one.” In the fantasy novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, an interesting character in the book was Gandalf. Gandalf was a very interesting character because of his character traits. An example of the character traits that Gandalf had are that he has courage, he is caring, and most of all he is very wise.

“ Courage is the best defense that you have now.” Gandalf has courage because when he was choosing Bilbo baggins for his bugler he saw something in Bilbo which gave him the courage to choose Bilbo as his bugler. Another way Gandalf shows his courage is when he gives the map to the dwarves out of courage and trust but he has courage in them by him giving him the other part of the map that they will find the lonely mountain and get the gold back. So throughout the book Gandalf shows his courage in many ways, it may have been in big gestures like when he gave the dwarves the map or it would be in small gestures like when he choose Bilbo to be the bugler, but in many ways he shows courage throughout the book The Hobbit.

But that is what i’ve found. I found it is the small things. Every day deeds by ordinary folk that keeps darkness at bay.” Gandalf is very caring because he believes that being nice to someone can either make their day much better or even just doing something nice to someone that it can impact their day and make them fall better. Some ways that he shows this is when he has a group of dwarves have steel the gold from smaug and to get to the lonely mountain, instead of having a group of elves the the journey. Another way that he shows that he is caring is when Bilbo was coming back from the lonely mountain he set up transportation for him so he could get back safely. In the book Gandalf demonstrates that he is caring in many different ways many