The movie trilogy of The Hobbit grossed almost three billion dollars, while the novel sold about 100 million copies (Mendelson and Walker). The sheer amount spent to watch The Hobbit shows how loved this book is by society. J.R.R Tolkien wrote the novel, The Hobbit, while Peter Jackson directed the second movie of The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug. The Hobbit, is about a non-adventurous hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, going on an adventure with thirteen dwarves and Gandalf in search for treasure
main character in the book is the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins. He is asked through the 13 dwarfs and Gandalf to be the burglar of the company. He has to steal the Arkenstone from the dragon Smaug, who claims the mountain named Erebor, and to help the dwarfs by their quest to reclaim the mountain. Bilbo changes throughout the book, so changes his understanding of the world around him, his sense of adventure, and his desire to live a comfortable life in his warm Hobbit hole. At the beginning of the book
What is a hero? Who can live up to be “a hero”? We hear about it in books, in myths, and in real life, maybe we even look up to a hero. But have you ever thought about what it meant to be a hero? What redeeming qualities does a hero have? Heroes never accomplish the same things, and sometimes their situations and ages are very different. One such example would be Katniss Everdeen from “The Hunger Games”, compared to Bilbo Baggins from “The Hobbit”. Both these characters are heroes, but in what sense