Hobbit
The Hobbit: A Story of Building Character “This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself saying and doing things altogether unexpected.” As this quote says The Hobbit by J. ... Tolkien is the story of a Hobbit that is usually a fat lazy home-dweller, but goes on an unusual adventure. ... Hobbit’s do the same old routine, unless they have to get more food or buy other things, as did Bilbo. ... This is another common hobbit thing, they stay in the same house that was handed down till they die. The hobbit society is based on being respectable. ... He was described as a regular Hobbit, well respected his whole life. ... Then, he will never be the same, the gentle hobbit, his stuffy constricting persona shed, and the realization of his potential within (Tim O’Neil p. ... This expresses Bilbo’s status and how a hobbit overcame the impossible, lastly by getting a dragon to leave. ... Like saying: “Another adventure in which the hobbit showed his usefulness” (Tolkien p. ... “Gandalf knows that Bilbo can save himself when Gandalf can’t save the hobbit” (Will Hauge). ... The dwarves wondered what use a hobbit would be to them, but Bilbo acquires confidence and discovers resources he didn’t know he had. ... The hobbit changes from fearfull to bravery, self-induldence to self-reliance, ignorance to knowledge, adolescence to responsible adult hood.