Bilbo Baggins's Influence On The Hobbit

We all know that WWI was a terrible occurrence that scarred thousands of soldiers including J.R.R Tolkien, but this war also inspired him to create the character Bilbo Baggins. One important event in Mr. Tolkien’s life was when he wrote the hobbit, and his lord of the rings series. His inspiration for the the locations in the book were from when he traveled around the world. The site he used for bilbo’s house was inspired by his hometown. “The author once told publishers that the Shire was representative of a preindustrial England and said that his creation was “more or less a Warwickshire village of about the period of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee,” which was held in 1897, according to The Independent.” His scenes in the Hobbit were from

The Most important being Bilbo Baggins, he was created in the battle of somme. The characters in his books and his books all together were inspired by his friends, the wars and snippets of his drafts read to the inklings. One of his most famous novels features parallels to the book “beowulf”. During his time as a professor he studied the book and he taught anglo-saxon. The books also have similar plots and main characters. Bilbo and Beowulf have similar characteristics; both heroes defy their enemies with supernatural powers, in Bilbo’s case he has the ring and in Beowulf’s case he has supernatural strength. J.R.R Tolkien has many inspirations for his books. The backstory of his series was inspired by the love he held for his wife. There were chronicles titled “Beren and Lúthien”. These stories inspired the “Silmarillion” and “ The Lord Of The Rings”. The languages in his books were inspired by all of the times he would spend with his cousins creating language and eventually he went off to create many different languages of his own. The basing behind the character Bilbo’s journey through misty mountains is based on a hiking journey that Tolkien took fifty years before the writing of the book.” During one of his childhood summers he went on a trip to Switzerland where he and others hiked a long distance. Over fifty years later he recalled those