The Hobbit Themes Characters Motifs The Hobbit Plot
The Hobbit Themes, Characters, Motifs
The Hobbit Plot Summary The Un-Expected Party Trolls Rivendell Misty Mountains Riddles in the Dark Beorn Mirkwood, spiders and elves Laketown The Lonely Mountain The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit Motif/caves or underground The Un-Expected Party Trolls Rivendell Misty Mountains Riddles in the Dark Beorn Mirkwood, spiders and elves Laketown The Lonely Mountain The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit Motif/Disembodied Voice Trick The Un-Expected Party Trolls Rivendell Misty Mountains Riddles in the Dark Beorn Mirkwood, spiders and elves Laketown The Lonely Mountain The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit Motif/Fire The Un-Expected Party Trolls Rivendell Misty Mountains Riddles in the Dark Beorn Mirkwood, spiders and elves Laketown The Lonely Mountain The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit Motif/In one door and out another The Un-Expected Party Trolls Rivendell Misty Mountains Riddles in the Dark Beorn Mirkwood, spiders and elves Laketown The Lonely Mountain The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit Characters Major Characters Bilbo Gandalf Thorin Minor Characters other dwarves Elrond Gollum Beorn Bard of Dale
The Hobbit Conflicts Physical Bilbo/Spiders Gandalf/goblins and wargs Thorin and dwarves in battle Beorn/Bolg Bard/Smaug Mental Gandalf/ trolls Bilbo/Gollum Bilbo/elves Bilbo/Smaug Psychological Bilbo/self Thorin/self
The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins Ø Ø Ø Ø Wits: Gollum, Smaug riddles, tricks spiders, understands riddle of keyhole in mountain Luck: number 14, finds Ring/Arkenstone Sharp eyes: sees Beorn, eagles Pity: on Gollum Kindhearted: returns keys to guard, pays back Elves Generous: gives Arkenstone to Bard Loyal, won’t leave dwarves
The Hobbit Bilbo Ø Baggins side Ø Desires comfort Ø Ø Food, drink Pipe Fireside handkerchief Gentle Ø Not acquisitive, gives away mathoms Ø Ø Took side Adventurous Ø Courageous Ø Heroic Ø Ø Fights spiders Rescues dwarves Faces Smaug alone
The Hobbit Other Characters Ø Dwarves Thorin: greedy, stern, proud, pompous, wants revenge on Smaug Ø Balin is Bilbo’s friend, Fili and Kili are youngest, fat Bombur is like Disney dwarf Ø Ø Ø Gandalf, wise, has control of fire (like Smaug) Eagles Beorn, in harmony with nature, animals Bard, heroic, vs. Master of Laketown, moneyoriented Smaug, like dwarves, greedy, revengeful
The Hobbit Thieves Ø Bilbo, the Burglar Tries to take purse from Trolls Ø Ring Ø Food from Elves Ø Keys from guard Ø Barrels Ø Cup Ø Arkenstone Ø Ø Other thieves Trolls (stuff in cave) Ø Gollum (Ring) Ø Smaug (pile of gold, Arkenstone, mithril) Ø Thorin won’t share with Bard, others Ø
The Hobbit Monsters Ø Ø Ø Trolls Goblins Gollum Wargs Elves Smaug Ø Stone Giants?
The Hobbit Settings Ø The Shire Ø The Wild Ø Rivendell Ø The Misty Mountains Ø Mirkwood Ø Elves’ great cave Ø Laketown Ø The Lonely Mountain
The Hobbit Themes Ø Hospitality: The Shire Ø Rivendell Ø Beorn Ø the Elves Ø Laketown Ø Ø Ø Luck Pity Greed Fairness
The Hobbit Traditional Quest Elements Ø Ø Ø Home, There and Back Again One year plus one day Underground or cave-like places: Under the Misty Mountains Ø Under the overhanging branches in Mirkwood Ø In the dungeons of the Elves Ø Inside the Lonely Mountain with Smaug Ø Ø Ø Battle with Dragon Heroic actions: fighting dragon, spiders
The Hobbit Parallels Ø Ø Ø Trolls and Spiders (disembodied voice trick) Fire promises comfort but it tricks: Trolls, Elves, Smaug is greatest fire Cave of Goblins, Gandalf rescues dwarves; Dungeon of Elves, Bilbo rescues dwarves Often in front door, out back door: Misty Mountains, Elves. Opposite in side door, out front door: Smaug. Out front door of Bag End, back in the same way. “Road Song. ” Battle of wits with Gollum and Smaug Caves all remind us of Bilbo’s home
The Hobbit Source material Ø Beowolf Much of description of Smaug in Beowolf Ø Beorn and Bard derivative Ø Name of Beorn a linguistic joke: name comes from bjorn (bear in Scandinavian), warrior or man in Old English Ø Ø “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”
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