Analizs of the Hobbit

'You approach the Ranger that Butterbur called Strider. He looks to be middle-aged. He wears a tattered green hooded cloak and muddy boots. "Ah, greetings traveller!" he exclaims. He removes his hood, revealing a head of dark hair on the verge of greying. You eye him suspiciously. "Would you like to hear the tale of a Master Storyteller from another Age?" You nod, glancing around the room again. “Good. I have not told this one in a long time. The story involves one John Ronald Reuel Tolkien..."' ("...Trail")

Mr. J.J.R Tolkien was born on January 3rd, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was inspired by the quiet life he lived in the West Midlands. Many of Tolkien's early memories of South Africa, including an incident when he was bitten by a tarantula while visiting a rural district, which would later be the inspiration for man eating spiders in The Hobbit. His most notable pieces of literature include The Hobbit, Lord of the Ring trilogy and The Silmarillion.

The Hobbit shares the story of Bilbo and his unwanted adventure, that he reluctantly takes, because "something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” ("The Hobbit")

Philology, the study of languages, was Tolkien's first academic love, and his interest in linguistics inspired him to invent some fifteen artificial languages. Tolkien began crafting, a structurally complex language known as Quenya around 1910. Tolkien's earliest literary ambition was to be a poet, but his primary creative urge in his younger days was the invention of imaginary languages, ("Inkling") Quenya or Qenya a previous name of the language was revis...

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... He was use too his quite life in the rural hills of Europe. The battle of Five Armies will decide who is in power, the battle of all battles.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Print.