The Hobbit Annotated Bibliography

R. R. Tolkien were close friends. They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University, and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis's memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptised in the Church of Ireland, but fell away from his faith during adolescence. Lewis returned to Anglicanism at the age of 32, owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, and he became an "ordinary layman of the Church of England".[1] Lewis's faith profoundly affected his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.

Going forward, in this essay, topics such as heroism and transformity will be strongly analyzed through quotes directly from the book The Hobbit and opinions formed while reading. Through the book The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien is able to show how a hero isn’t always the typical buff and boots with a cape on his back kind of person. Tolkien shows the reader that a hero is made by the struggles he conquers and isn’t just a perfect character thrown into the beginning of the story.

Tolkien lived in his own apartment in Birmingham at the age of sixteen. He went about his studies normally until the day Tolkien met the one person with the most influence on him in his entire life: Edith Bratt. Edith was nineteen at the time when Tolkien was sixteen; they would talk for hours leaning out the windows of their apartments and have informal dates in coffee shops where they would make a game of throwing sugar cubes into the large hats worn by the women of the time(25 Horne).

In 1920 Tolkien was appointed to the position of Associate Professor in English Language at the University of Leeds. At the university Tolkien cooperated with E.V. Gordon to publish the Songs for the Philologists. Tolkien in 1937 published The Hobbit and in 1954 published what would be his most famous works, The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's wife died in 1971 and himself died two years later in 1973 at the age of 81 and had four children. (Doughan).had many influences on his writing one among these is the literature of the old Norse. (Clair) This influence is visible in almost all aspects of the stories that Tolkien tells of Middle- Earth. The Hobbits, for example, are Tolkien's unique contribution to the world of Middle Earth. However the Hobbits are clearly based off of the Icelanders in the Njal's Saga. (Clair) There are many similarities between these two groups of peoples in the two stories. Many of these similarities are in habit. The Icelanders much like the Hobbits were fond of food and often were very proud of their ancestry and their belief in hospitality. Another similarity between the two groups is their ostentatious methods of dress. Both groups dressed very ornately and very colorfully. (Clair) Tolkien's elves also show many similarities to the elves of Northern literature. Both elves have histories of healing and of being smiths. (Clair) Aside from the influence of Norse Literature Tolkien was also influenced by his Catholic faith and

Literary consonance is a literary device where the same consonants are repeated numerous times in short succession. Sibilance is a form of literary consonance made by the flow of air through the sharp edges of the teeth. Phonetic Alphabet symbols representing sibilants are [s], [z], [ʃ], [tʃ], [dʒ] and [ʒ], which all create hissing noises when spoken. Tolkien effectively provides a thorough demonstration on how an author can play with consonance. He adds depth to Gollum’s character by emphasising his hissing noises with the assistance of this poetic device. His sibilance is designed to portray him as sinister, cold and distant from the normal Hobbits to the reader. It

“Kid, you’ll move mountains! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way!” – Dr Seuss

Essay Topic 2 In the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Elvenking and the elves are likable. The elves are nice, friendly pleasant, and easy to like. When the story first started in the movie the Elvenking and the elves do not help the dwarves when they are getting attacked by the dragon.

On May 27, 2018, a few hours before midnight, Bilbo Baggins, a caring and valiant hobbit survived a deadly troll attack in Trolls Camp, WilderLand while attempting to stop a violent fight amongst the trolls.

There are many names attributed of one the legendary kings of Britannia. Most people know him as Arthur Pendragon without knowing that he originally carried a different name, Lucius Artorius Castus. This is the name that inspired the tales of Geoffrey of Monmouth centuries ago. The recollections and inspiration of The Fall of King Arthur by J.R.R Tolkien can be compared to the film King Arthur (2004), which presents a romantic side of the king we know now as “Arthur”.

In many stories, there is a hero ‒ a character who rescues, saves, survives, and sacrifices in order to help the greater good. He usually is of mysterious origin and often starts off seeming ordinary and insignificant. However, as the hero eventually grows and develops, he follows the hero’s journey, or the general structure of a hero’s adventures. Such is the case in J.R.R. Tolkien’s renowned The Hobbit, a high fantasy novel detailing the adventures of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, a small furry creature known as a hobbit. Bilbo lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until he is compelled to join a dangerous quest with Gandalf the wizard and thirteen dwarves. As Bilbo Baggins progresses along his hero’s journey, he transforms, develops, and changes into an extraordinary hero.

Tolkien was born in on January 3, 1892 in South Africa. While he was three Tolkien moved to England with his mother which led him to create an interest for English life which he reflected within his stories. While attending school in Birmingham,Tolkien had a great interest with languages, he even created his own languages and alphabet. From his excellence in writing and language Tolkien received a scholarship to Oxford. While attending Oxford, Tolkien even furthered his writings by studying medieval literatures. Soon after graduating, World War 1 begun, and Tolkien enlisted. Before he departed to france as a signal officer, he married a girl that he knew since he was little, Edith Bratt. During the war, Tolkien had caught an illness called Trench fever which had him sick for about a year. While he was ill he he wrote his first novel The

Why was the Hobbit made into a movie? The fans were baggins for it! In the novel the Hobbit there are many examples of the elements of fiction. Those being: plot, character, Dialogue, POV, conflict, setting, and themes. The element of fiction I will be talking about today is characters.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known by his pen name J.R.R. Tolkien, came from a family that was primarily craftsmen that had emigrated to England from Germany in the 18th century. John was born on January 3rd, 1892 to father Arthur Tolkien and mother Mabel Tolkien in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His family had moved there after his father was promoted to head of the Bloemfontein office of the British bank. John had one sibling, his younger brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel.

The protagonist of the book is Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo the main character in the book, is a hobbit. He was scared to leave his home town of Bagan. Bilbo was invited by dwarves to go on an adventure to find treasure that belonged to the them. Little was known about what could happen on this trip, but still Bilbo was drawn to this adventure with much excitement. It was when he did not have food to eat that he would question why he left his hobbit hole.

Don't judge a book by its cover. This famous phrase can very well be applied to the hobbit a small human like creature that goes along with 13 dwarves and a wizard. The wizard, Gandalf, has total faith in the little hobbit knowing full well that when the time comes he will serve the dwarves quite well. He does this with the help of a ring that makes him invisible. He saves the dwarves from evil spiders that wish to eat them. Uses it to help them escape the clutches of elves that would keep them in their clutches for some time. And to find out the weakness of an evil dragon bent on destroying all those opposing him. Our little hobbit friend is quite an extraordinary little fellow compared