The Hobbit is the story of Bilbo Baggins and his friends on an adventure to retrieve their treasure from the Lonely Mountain. The plot opens in the peaceful hobbit society. The atmosphere of Hobbition is totally different from the other places they will pass through on their journey. Bilbo Baggins is a 50-year old hobbit who lives in a hole on the side of The Hill. Bilbo loves the serenity of his hole and would do nothing to upset it. He eats frequently throughout the day and experiences no excitement. One day while sitting on his porch he meets Gandalf, an elderly wizard. Little did Bilbo know that his Took side would soon be exploited. Soon after, thirteen dwarves arrived at his home. Bilbo had no clue as to why they showed up, but he knew …show more content…
Bilbo doesn’t know it is Gollum’s ring. Gollum becomes furious and chases Bilbo thinking he has the ring. During the chase, Bilbo slips and falls to the ground. Gollum is closing in on him, it is at that moment Bilbo puts the ring on. He turns completely invisible. The new discovery of the ring’s power will contribute to the tasks Bilbo has to undertake later in the story. While Bilbo is invisible Gollum unknowingly ends up leading Bilbo to the exit, where later he meets back with his friends. The whole scenario involving the goblins and Gollum give a similarity to hell itself. The caverns made by the goblins represent the depths of hell and Gollum can be thought of as the devil. The way he unknowingly sneaks up behind goblins using his magic ring can also illustrate death. Thus, the group set off to seek Gandalf’s friend Beorn. Beorn was a skin changer with a very bad temper. After arriving at Beorn’s home, it took some mischief to persuade him to take them in. Beorn’s home was a warm haven for the travelers. His home is huge and his servants have prepared a massive feast. Bilbo and his friends were ecstatic to see such an extraordinary feast. Being able to eat all they want would be a great change. During their journey, the group experienced great hunger, which upset everyone. Bilbo despised it the most. The extreme starvation he was going through was the complete opposite of his routine back home. After replenishing …show more content…
The path was narrow and wound around the trees. They befell many disasters in the dark forest. They crossed the river in which if drunk of or even touched it, your memory would be erased. The group encountered Woodlin Elves in the forest. While they were looking for the whereabouts of the elves, the group was ambushed by giant spiders. They got everyone except Bilbo and Thorin, Thorin was captured by the elves. Bilbo shows a great deal of courage in the situation. He saves his friends from the spiders using his cunning mind and sword he names Sting. After rescuing his dwarf friends from the spiders they go to save Thorin from the elves. They purposely get captured and are imprisoned. Bilbo finds Thorin and the two of them devise a plan to escape. The plan was to use the water duct that leads to Esgaroth. The plan succeeded and they made it to Esgaroth. Esgaroth gave the group new found energy, and they were ready to retake their treasure at the Lonely
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
Bilbo Baggins lived a very simple life, a life he enjoyed very much, until the day when the wizard Gandalf arrived at his door one morning. Gandalf was searching for someone to share an adventure with, but Bilbo quickly declined, saying, “We don’t want any adventures here. You might try over The Hill or across The Water,” and with that the hobbit dismissed the wandering wizard, but not before he had given the wizard an invitation for tea the next day. This of coarse, was the polite thing to do. But Gandalf saw something more in Bilbo and would not be discouraged.
Bilbo cleverly eluded Smaug’s temptation, spared the life of foul creature Gollum, and demonstrate courage more and more throughout his journey. These exquisite traits made Bilbo into the revered character that was loved and respected for generations of readers. Throughout the book, Bilbo’s character had changed. At first, he was the ordinary hobbit who described adventures as “Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things” (4) but by the end of his journeys stated to Thorin, “I am glad that I have shared in your perils” (290). Bilbo’s ability to fight evil, make new friends, and to look beyond his maps and books enable him to become a hero. As Gandalf once said at the very beginning, “There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself” (19). Gandalf was right. What appeared to be an uneasy hobbit who fainted at the thought of adventures, turned out to be a brave leader, a compassionate friend, and an inspiring
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 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...
At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Baggins starts out at his comfy little hobbit home, but suddenly a grand, wise wizard shows up. Not long after, 12 dwarves began to appear, one by one at Bilbo’s door, and they have come to carry him off on a life-changing adventure, full of greed. That was the beginning of our hairy hobbit’s transformation from a shy, quiet hobbit, to a strong and bold life-saving hero, who enchants any who come in contact with him. For example of his strength and boldness, would be in chapter 5, when Bilbo rhymes riddles for an unknown creature, who calls itself Gollum. Bilbo would’ve been eaten if he were to have lost, but took his chances, and risked it anyway. After all, it did get him out of that goblin-infested cave.
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.
Then one day a wizard by the name of Gandalf comes and gives Bilbo the opportunity to go on an adventure. Bilbo turns his offer down, but the next day thirteen dwarves come to his house. They have meals together and they sleep at Bilbo’s house. Gandalf then convinces him to go on an adventure with them. Bilbo is many things, in the beginning he is flat, static, main, and he is the protagonist.
The power is so enticing that Bilbo is very weary of giving up that ring. When Gandalf asks Bilbo if he wishes to give up the ring, Bilbo seems unsure saying yes and no. When it came to having to give it up he didn't like parting with it at all and didn't see why he should have to. Due to the power Bilbo feels that the ring has given him, he doesn't want to part with it. By no means does Bilbo want to use the power in an evil manner to dominate all.
The story starts with the 33rd birthday-party for Frodo Baggans, and the 111th birthday party for Bilbo Baggans, Hobbits who live in a mythical land called the Shire. Frodo’s best friend is his gardner Sam. Frodo owns a magic Ring which makes him invisible when he wears it, a gift from his cousin Bilbo who stole it from Gollum years ago.
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.
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.
Bilbo doesn’t realize it at first, with the help of Gandalf he sees he has changed. He has become brave and fearless. He has also learned the value of friendship and kindness through his new friends and their journey together which has now forever
“If they still doubted that he was really a first class burglar, in spite of Gandalf’s words, they doubted no longer.” (Tolkien 92). This scene changed everything for the dwarves because they then truly believed he was a real burglar and from then on they all had a brand new respect for Bilbo. As Bilbo told them stories about what had happened when he was gone the dwarves were all in shock and Bilbo seemed to be very pleased in their admiration of him. As he did not tell them about the invisibility ring, which made all the stories that much more fascinating and incredible. “The dwarves looked at him with quite a new respect, when he talked about dodging guards, jumping over Gollum, and squeezing through, as if it was not very difficult or very alarming.” (Tolkien 93). Bilbo earned a gigantic newly respect from the dwarves, which very much helped and assured them with their trust in him from then