Hobbit 1

The Hobbit is set in Middle-earth and follows home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit of the title, who joins the wizard Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves of Thorin's Company, on a quest to reclaim the dwarves' home and treasure from the dragon Smaug. Bilbo's journey takes him from his peaceful rural surroundings into more sinister territory.

Bilbo accepts only a small portion of his share of the treasure, having no want or need for more, but still returns home a very wealthy hobbit roughly a year and a month after he first left. Years later, he writes the story of his adventures.

Hobbit 1

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In a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden, Tolkien recollects that he began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School Certificate papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." By late 1932 he had finished the story and then lent the manuscript to several friends, including C. S. Lewis[12] and a student of Tolkien's named Elaine Griffiths.[13] In 1936, when Griffiths was visited in Oxford by Susan Dagnall, a staff member of the publisher George Allen & Unwin, she is reported to have either lent Dagnall the book[13] or suggested she borrow it from Tolkien.[14] In any event, Dagnall was impressed by it, and showed the book to Stanley Unwin, who then asked his 10-year-old son Rayner to review it. Rayner's favourable comments settled Allen & Unwin's decision to publish Tolkien's book.[15]

In December 1937 The Hobbit's publisher, Stanley Unwin, asked Tolkien for a sequel. In response Tolkien provided drafts for The Silmarillion, but the editors rejected them, believing that the public wanted "more about hobbits".[51] Tolkien subsequently began work on The New Hobbit, which would eventually become The Lord of the Rings,[51] a course that would not only change the context of the original story, but lead to substantial changes to the character of Gollum.

Hobbits first appeared in the 1937 children's novel The Hobbit, whose titular Hobbit is the protagonist Bilbo Baggins, who is thrown into an unexpected adventure involving a dragon. In its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, Pippin Took, and Merry Brandybuck are primary characters who all play key roles in fighting to save their world ("Middle-earth") from evil. In The Hobbit, Hobbits live together in a small town called Hobbiton, which in The Lord of the Rings is identified as being part of a larger rural region called the Shire, the homeland of the Hobbits in the northwest of Middle-earth. They also live in a village east of the Shire, called Bree, where they co-exist with Men. Tolkien hints that there may be other Hobbit settlements thereabouts, but they are never visited in the story.

The origins of the name and idea of "Hobbits" have been debated; literary antecedents include Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt, and Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 The Marvellous Land of Snergs. The word "hobbit" also appears in a list of ghostly beings in The Denham Tracts (1895), though these bear no similarity to Tolkien's Hobbits. Tolkien emphatically rejected a relationship with the word "rabbit", and emphasized hobbits' humanity, though scholars have noted several lines of evidence to the contrary.

Tolkien claimed that he started The Hobbit suddenly, without premeditation, in the midst of grading a set of student essay exams in 1930 or 1931, writing its famous[2] opening line on a blank piece of paper: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit".[3][4]

Another possible origin emerged in 1977 when the Oxford English Dictionary announced that it had found the source that it supposed Tolkien to have used: James Hardy wrote in his 1895 The Denham Tracts, Volume 2: "The whole earth was overrun with ghosts, boggles ... hobbits, hobgoblins." Shippey writes that the list was of ghostly creatures without bodies, nothing like Tolkien's solid flesh-and-blood Hobbits.[6] Tolkien scholars consider it unlikely that Tolkien saw the list.[8]

Shippey writes that the rabbit is not a native English species, but was deliberately introduced in the 13th century, and has become accepted as a local wild animal. Shippey compares this "situation of anachronism-cum-familiarity" with the lifestyle of the Hobbit, giving the example of smoking "pipeweed". He argues that Tolkien did not want to write "tobacco", as it did not arrive until the 16th century, so Tolkien invented a calque made of English words.[6] Donald O'Brien, writing in Mythlore, notes, too, that Aragorn's description of Frodo's priceless mithril mail-shirt, "here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven-princeling in", is a "curious echo"[9] of the English nursery rhyme "To find a pretty rabbit-skin to wrap the baby bunting in."[9]

The Harfoots lived on the lowest slopes of the Misty Mountains in Hobbit-holes dug into the hillsides. They were not only smaller and shorter, but also beard- and bootless. The Stoors lived on the marshy Gladden Fields where the Gladden River met the Anduin, and were broader and heavier in build; and the Fallohides preferred to live in the woods under the Misty Mountains. They were described as fairer of skin and hair, as well as taller and slimmer than the rest of the hobbits.[T 6]

Now let\u2019s consider Tolkien, a writer most famous for his sprawling fantasy epic, a tale of hungry hobbits surely but also of kings and armies and great battles of good men (and elves and dwarves) against hordes of evil orcs and other nasties.

So here we have this great writer, who perhaps because he didn\u2019t always know how to get out of a fight scene as quickly as he desired, frequently made his escape by rendering one of his beloved hobbits unconscious. A brute force solution to a particularly common problem. Surely there must be a better way.

Our poor wounded hobbits, who only want seven square meals a day and to take the One Ring to Mordor. Our poor readers, who wish only to have a book\u2019s most exciting scenes ended without such cheats.

To begin, there\u2019s the time in Fellowship when the ringwraiths catch up with the hobbits and Aragorn at Weathertop on their way to Rivendell. Here Frodo faints at the moment of his being stabbed by the wicked knife of one of the ringwraiths:

As Fellowship ends and The Two Towers opens, another band of orcs attacks the splintering Fellowship, leading to Frodo and Sam's departure, Boromir\u2019s death, and Merry and Pippin's capture. Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli don\u2019t know exactly what happened, but Tolkien soon flashes forward, switching to Pippin's point of view as the hobbit awakes from a concussion\u2014and \\\"a dark and troubling dream\\\"\u2014to relate Boromir's last moments, which led to the aforementioned head trauma and capture:

See how Tolkien skips having to actually show Boromir's death in scene, or to work through the messy mechanics of kidnapping hobbits? (Note: As I said above, I wrote this essay a few years ago, and only lightly revised it today. But this morning, when I reached the end of my Fellowship reread, I was shocked to find the actual fight not in the text\u2014perhaps because it\u2019s so vividly rendered in Peter Jackson\u2019s adaptation, which I\u2019ve seen more often than I\u2019ve read the novels.)

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum.

In The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien tells the story of Mr. Bilbo Baggins and his unexpected and rather uncomfortable adventure over the edge of the Wild. Rousted from a comfortable life in his hobbit hole by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of dwarves as they seek to reclaim their home far away in the Lonely Mountain. Along the journey, Bilbo has one adventure after another and meets many extraordinary creatures including goblins, trolls, elves, wargs, giant eagles, and even the fearsome dragon, Smaug. At the end of his adventures, Bilbo Baggins returns to life in his hobbit hole, but with an understanding that he has been forever changed by his journey "there and back again."

This is so cute ! In Germany we have the tradition of hiding away easter-sweets in the garden. Seeing this wee hobbit hole makes me want to make several ones and just digg it into the garden of some friends, for them to discover

Our day of pretending to be hobbits started with the 8:00am tour of Hobbiton Movie Set. From there, we bid farewell to Matamata and hopped in the car for our short drive to the city of Hamilton. We spent an hour and a half walking around the Hamilton Gardens, which ended up being the perfect add-on to our day of fantasy and whimsy. e24fc04721