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The Hobbit The book I read was titled The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote the book. It was first copyrighted in 1937. It was published by Ballantine Books. The main
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A Hero Or A Hobbit
Many children's tales are written the same way. They are stories of some heroic figure who is in search of a magic sword, lost treasure, or a princess to rescue. In these stories, the hero usually has to overcome many obstacles and enemies to reach his goal. Some of these stories are more than that. They sometimes may have the same story line, but when analyzed a little closer, they can teach us a lot about ourselves and the way we live our lives. The novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, is not just another quest to uncover a lost treasure, it has more of a coming of age theme, where the most unheroic hobbit learns much about himself and matures into an adult and even the hero of the story.
As the story begins, Bilbo is at first seen as a safe and unadventurous hobbit, content in the security of his hobbit-hole at Bag End. Bilbo is described as being terrified to leave his hobbit hole and seek adventure. When Gandalf and the elves decide to let Bilbo in on their dangerous journey, he is not quite sure he wants to go. He feels scared and even faints at the idea. Although his mother's side of the family, the Tooks, were adventurous people, Bilbo seems to take more after his father Bungo Baggins. He has great conflict with his two inner sides, the Took and Baggins. "His Tookish aggressiveness is being repressed" (Mathews 583). It gets to Bilbo when Gloin expresses doubts about him being for the task. Gloin exclaims, "He looks more like a grocer than a burglar" (Tolkien 18). This gets to Bilbo, and his "Took side" wins. He shows that he is determined to prove his worth by telling Gloin, "Tell me what you want done, and I will try it, if I have to walk from here to the East of East and fight the wild Were-worms in the Last Desert" (Tolkien 18). The dwarves decide to let Bilbo join the quest only because Gandalf insists.
Bilbo possesses valuable hidden strengths that he does not know exist. He first shows this when he...
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