Free Essays on The Hobbit

  1. Hobbits

    Hobbits or Halflings are the creation of author J.R.R. Tolkien for his books The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings trilogy. Tolkien goes into depth describing this hardy breed of creatures, and they play integral roles in both books. In fact, in The Hobbit Tolkien begins with a brief description of hobbits...

  2. The Hobbit

    The Hobbit: Synopsis The Hobbit, a novel written by J.R.R. Tolkien, is a very interesting and mind blowing novel. From it’s wide variety of races, such as goblins, dwarves, humans, elves, hobbits, and even a dragon, to it’s huge world full of much reality and adventurous places. The...

  3. the hobbit summary

    The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is a story about little Bilbo Baggins and his not-so-little adventure. The theme of The Hobbit is Bilbo’s development into a hero. A common favorable thing about this novel is the character grown that Bilbo experiences through his journey; he steps out of his comfort zone...

  4. The Hobbit

    The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien presents an extremely fantastic miraculous Middle Earth world, and narrates a story with hope and reliance, guts and persistence, fear and puzzlement. It illustrates a vivid picture of the classic adventure story, which is shown as a seductive, arduous journey, and...

  5. The Hobbit Blah Blah Blah

    The Hobbit: JRR Tolkien Essay Topic 3 J.R.R Tolkien in The Hobbit introduces to the readers, Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield. As J.R.R Tolkien originally presents the character Bilbo Baggins, he is introducing a timid, home-loving and unadventurous character. While he introduces the dwarf Thorin...

  6. The Hobbit People

    The Discovery of the Hobbit People Richardson 9E 1st Draft March 2013 The Hobbit People In The 1950’s and 60’s a priest and a part-time archaeologist, named Theodore Vernoeven discovered early sighs of human presence....

  7. The Hobbit: Summer Reading

    The Hobbit Over this summer I read the book the Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. Overall it was a fun, adventurous, and scary book. At some times it made me feel emotions which are an important thing in a book; it shows you care about what you’re reading. A few bad things about this book are that it can be...

  8. Does the Hobbit endorse Wisdom or Cunning

    The hobbit is a book written by J.R.R. Tolkien. The book revolves around Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo is a Hobbit who has a very straight forward life. But when Gandalf, the adventurous wizard comes, Bilbo’s life is turned upside down. In this story we find many situations were the characters show wisdom, and...

  9. The Hobbit

    BOOK REPORT PROJECT IN ENGLISH TITLE : THE HOBBIT Submitted by: Ianne Joy L. Concepcion Second Year – Pearl Submitted to: Ms. Miralyn Franco THE HOBBIT J. R. R. Tolkien I. Characters Main Characters Bilbo Baggins: The main character and protagonist of the tale. For unknown reasons...

  10. asdfasdf

    Lahti 1 David Lahti MRS Grieve English 11 21st January 2014 The Hobbit research paper The Hobbit throughout his journey runs into many problems which can be connected into modern day society such as predators and criminals using social networking sites as a way to commit crime, finding a way...

  11. Homo

    Southeast Asian Island of Flores in 2003.The fossils of the little humans called “Hobbits” have caused much controversy. This discovery was the topic of much debate amongst scientists. Some scientists argued that the “hobbit” fossils found were that of a different species of humans. Others said that they...

  12. herro

    the first place: Then the hobbit slipped on his ring, warned by the echoes to take more than a hobbit's care to make no sound, he crept noiselessly down, down into the dark. He was trembling with fear, but his little face was set and grim. Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run...

  13. Blarg

    novel written by the English philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during World War II.[1] Although...

  14. Anglo Saxon Influences on Lord of the Rings

    creature called a hobbit. Tolkien's hobbits, weak and powerless in a world of such great magic, are those closest to humans. Hobbits, simple creatures, with big hearts and vigorous determination and emotion, much like humans, will take on any calling no matter how traitorous. Frodo, a hobbit, exemplifies...

  15. J.R.R. Tolkien

    J.R.R. Tolkien Best known as the author of high fantasy classics The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and a university professor. J.R.R. Tolkien was born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on January 3rd, 1812 (Heims 32). He was born in Bloemfontein...

  16. The Lord of the Rings and the Wheel of Time

    Lord of the Rings are undoubtedly the hobbits. From being "absurd, helpless hobbits" at the start those in the company are "Fearless hobbits with bright swords and grim faces" when they return to the Shire. While "there was a note in the voices of these [hobbits] that they [the bandits in the Shire]...

  17. Lord Of The Rings

     Final Project “Lord of the Rings” In the Lord of the Ring’s a young hobbit named Frodo takes an adventures journey. Along side his 9 friends, three hobbits Sam, Merry, Pippin, two humans Aragorn, and Boromir, one dwarf Gimil, an Elf Legolas, and last his very good wizard friend Gandalf. They where...

  18. J.R.R. Tolkien's Way of Writing

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories were none short of amazing. His works were mainly composed of fantasy stories regarding Middle Earth. Such works were The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings was a trilogy that contained The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King...

  19. Defining Free

    'nominal essence' and 'real essence'). The name 'hobbit', for example, is perfectly meaningful. It has a quid nominis. But we could not know the real nature of hobbits, even if there were such things, and so we cannot know the real nature or quid rei of hobbits. By contrast, the name 'man' denotes real things...

  20. Peace

    Without any peace in our life, we would go crazy, so that’s why it is so important to take pleasure in the little things. This relates to the Hobbit. The Hobbit isn’t driven by the want for gold like the rest of the dwarves but wants to find himself and take pleasure in the adventure. Here are some things...

  21. Lord of the rings

    Lord of the rings is an epic fantasy adventure story where a hobbit, one from the little people is sent out to defeat the shadow in the east. By the name of Frodo Baggins and with his loyal companion they face many dangerous obstacles and...

  22. Homo Floresiensis

    the pre-modern human fossils which found in Asia and I am going to talk about it in the following paragraphs. Homo floresiensis, also called the hobbit, is discovered by Peter Brown and Michael Morwood in Liang Bua Cave on the Island of Flores in Indonesia in 2003. (Sawyer and Deak, 2007, p. 180) ...

  23. Silmarillion

    Book review: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien is a collection of thoughts and stories that form the prequel to, or better yet, history for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In these notes and passages (edited into a coherent work by Christopher Tolkien) there lies the creation of the first age...

  24. Chronicals

    consists of universally accepted themes of love, friendship, hope and bravery. Some of the other comparable movies are The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit series. Overview Taran, unsatisfied by his job as an assistant pig keeper, wants to become a warrior. He is raised by Dallben, 379 years...

  25. Tom Bombadil

    lives a care free life. He is quite powerful though since Gandalf said he is one of the eldest beings in existences. Tom helps Frodo and the other hobbit throughout there adventure and gives them a rhyme to say if they are ever in trouble. After he saves them from the Barrow-wights he gives them each...

  26. Hero's Journey

    hero. The separation phase is an event that the hero must make a decision for, and is usually resisted the first time around, this can be seen in The Hobbit. Many times during the separation phase some sort of guide appears that helps the hero make a decision and complete their journey. Any talismans that...

  27. film industry

    classic film. Warner Bros. studios create quite a lot of films for the ages of about 15-late forties. An example of this is the recent release of ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’. This film was originally a book that became very popular after the original release of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. Making...

  28. Punctuation Rules: Comma

    the answer to all these questions is `no', you have done something wrong. Try these questions on the following example: The publication of The Hobbit in 1937, marked the beginning of Tolkien's career as a fantasy writer. Can that comma be replaced by and or or? No - the result would make no sense...

  29. English book

    (whispering from behind) careful! Don’t alarm him! He’s much more dangerous than he looks. (crouching stone-still in the shadow of a boulder, the hobbits watch a black, crawling shape less than fifty feet above the cliff’s foot.) Gollum- ( troubled by something, snuffing, hissing) ach sss! Cautious...

  30. Life of Pi (film)

    States on November 21, 2012 in both traditional and 3D viewing formats. It was originally scheduled to be released on December 14, 2012, but when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was announced for the same release date, Life of Pi was postponed a week. It was then shifted a month in advance.[47] [edit]Home...

  31. Potential Customers

    It is the reason why more and more people know about this supermarket, and they want to come there to try experiment, or to satisfy their shopping hobbit. However, only small number of customers, counting 14%, said that they thought Big C should improve their strategies because the current ones have...

  32. Your school is organising a ceremony for your favourite English teacher who is retiring. You have been asked to give a farewell speech. Use notes below about your teacher to write your speech.

    years ago I've had both good and bad experiences with teachers. My three favrouites however are Mrs Mullaney from middle school for reading The Hobbit and The Talking Parcel to my 9 year old self and inspiring a love of reading that has stayed with me ever since. From Upper School, Miss Brooke the...

  33. Hobbit

    Essay 1 A hero is a person who is distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility and strength. There are two types of heroes: Ancient heroes and modern heroes. Ancient heroes have exceptional courage, nobility and strength as do modern heroes, but modern heroes use these qualities in an unconventional...

  34. spielberg

    Steven Spielberg Film. Introduction by Frank W. Abagnale (New York: Newmarket Press, 2002), 13. 11. Quoted in Lisa Hirsch, “Design Kudos Catch hobbits, (Art Directors Guilds Production Design Awards Banquet).” Daily Variety , February 24, 2003, 4(2). www.fi nd.galegroup.com. 12 . Quoted in Tom...

  35. War of bas

    began to crawl from blog to blog. I got through half a dozen before I found something that froze my blood. Livejournallers love quizzes. What kind of hobbit are you? Are you a great lover? What planet are you most like? Which character from some movie are you? What's your emotional type? They fill them...

  36. The One and Only

    away and live to be a douchebag another day." She gestured to her Santana nodded her head as a genuine smile crossed her face. "I never doubted you, hobbit. But it was haven't steered you wrong yet." more fun doing it together." She pulled out her phone to send a text. "Rumor has it you two are meeting...