The Hobbit Essay Research Paper In the

The Hobbit Essay, Research Paper In the enchanting story The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkin the main character undergoes a significant changes. The character goes from a peaceful fun loving hobbit to a brave daring adventurer who helps kill an evil dragon and steel a great treasure. Finally at the end starts his adventure home. It all begins one fine morning when Biblo Baggins got an unexpected knock on his door. He answered and an old man came in. First the hobbit did not notice who he was. Finally he remembered it was his old friend Gandolf, the wizard. They began to talk and the wizard tried to talk the hobbit into taking an adventure. Biblo would not do it. Hobbit’s were calm friendly people who never went on adventures. At last the wizard left but came back the next day only

this time he came with thirteen homeless dwarves. After hours and hours of talk the hobbit finally agreed to go on the adventure knowing he might not come back alive. It was a daring dangerous adventure to return Thorin, the dwarve king, to his rightful kingdom under the mountain and to steel back the dwarves great treasure from the evil dragon Smaug. They were on their way the next day – the wizard the dwarves and the hobbit. They traveled for days. nights were spent at inns for very short periods of time. Until after days of difficult travel, they reached a point with no more inns just them and the wilderness. Crawling with goblins, wolves and all kinds of other dangerous enemies whom they would have to avoid. They have now traveled for weeks and everything was going as

planed until one night when they were camping out in the rain they saw a bright fire in the distance. It was decided that the hobbit would go and check it out. He went and when he go there he saw three goblins camping by a fire. Biblo decided not to go back empty handed and tried to pick pocket the goblins. Unfortunately he was captured. The others began to get worried and decided to go after him. Not knowing what they were getting into, they also got captured by the goblins. Every one but the wizard was captured he waited a while and then when the moment was right he destroyed the goblins. A little while later after the dwarves and the hobbit were freed, they found the goblins cave. They went in. What they found was great and a very important asset to their journey to the

mountain. What they found were two swords the orcist (goblin cleaver) and glamdring (foe hammer) which goblins truly hated. It was used to kill many goblins in its time. They went on with their journey and finally after several months of travel reached the mountains. On this particular night that they reached the mountains there was a great storm with fast howling winds, rain, hail and giants who lived in the mountains were throwing boulders around. The exhausted travelers sought a place to take shelter for the night for they were exhausted and without food. After a short while they found a cave the wizard explored it decided it was safe and let the dwarves and the hobbit in. Unfortunately for them the wizard did not look good enough. As soon as everyone got settled in and fell

asleep the hobbit began to have a nightmare. He dreamt that goblins came from a secret hole in the cave and took himself and the dwarves. He was not dreaming it did happen. Fortunately for them the wizard escaped, when finally the goblins had brought the hobbit and the dwarves to the great goblin the wizard appeared and in a flash killed the great goblin and helped the prisoners escape. Unfortunately for the hobbit he had been knocked unconscious in all the commotion. Though the goblins did not find him, because he was laying in the dark he was still lost in the goblins cave, when he woke. He could not go into the light were he could be seen so he kept going into the dark. It kept getting darker and darker until not seeing were he was going he fell and stumbled upon a round