What is the difference between a hobbit, dwarf, and elf? Are there similar features between all of them? In the Hobbit, by J.R.R Tolkien, there was a hobbit named Bilbo who goes on an adventure with a group of dwarves called Thorin and the Company, where he meets elves, humans, and other creatures. His adventures with the dwarf's leads him to become friends with many of the people he meets like the elves. Bilbo goes on an adventure as a burglar to take back the treasure the dwarf's once had. The adventure would not be easy for there will be a war caused by Bilbo. With the differences and similar characteristics between the dwarves, elves, and Bilbo, together they will defeat the goblins and Wargs to end the Five Armies War and have peace at …show more content…
This resulting to a similarity between them because of their hatred for each other. The difference is the reasons why they hate each other is different. One of the reasons elves hate dwarves was because of their love for gold, but also another reason is that in the past there used to be a rivalry between them. According to the Elvenking at page 155, “ In ancient days they had had wars with some of the dwarves, whom they accused of stealing their treasure. It is only fair to say that the dwarves gave a different account, and said that they only took what was their due, for the elf-king had bargained with them to shape his raw gold and silver, and had afterwards refused to give them their pay.” As a result, the quarrel that had happened in the past made the Elvenking not trust Thorin even though, this was not connected to Thorin’s past because his family was not part of the quarrel. On the other hand, Thorin and the Company did not like elves for a different reason compared to the reasons why elves hate dwarves. They said according to page 47, “ Dwarves don’t get well with them. Even decent enough dwarves like Thorin and his friends think they are foolish (which is a foolish thing to think), or get annoyed with them.” Usually, elves mostly tease dwarves about their beards, making them annoyed. Alike the dwarves, when Bilbo sees elves, he reacts in a positive way because they share the same …show more content…
Some of these traits are, they live in a peaceful life and have wisdom. Hobbits and elves both live in a peaceful lives because both creatures do not go on adventures. In the beginning of the chapters, at page 3, “ … because they never had adventures or did anything unexpected …” Furthermore, this indicates that the hobbits do not go on adventures so they are considered respectable. Like hobbits, elves do not go on adventures too, because they are usually found in the woods singing and eating all day. When Bilbo goes past the valley that the elves live, he finds them eating and singing, this also happens when he goes through Mirkwood to the Wood elf's home, and the last time it happens is when Bilbo goes back home. Elves and hobbits are very wise because even if they do not go on adventures, they have a lot of knowledge about the world considering they are respectable people. According to page 49, Elrond is, “... wise as a wizard,” and the Elf- King is wise enough to suspect that the crew will attempt burglary, according to page 184, “... which shows he was a wise elf ad wiser than the men of the town….” Similarly, hobbits are wise to for they are respectable people, “... they have a fund of wisdom and wise sayings that men have mostly never heard,” from page 66. On the other hand, hobbits have more differences between dwarves than
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Bilbo is happy to visit the elves and have tea with Gandalf, but he is also just as happy to relax in his hobbit-hole and enjoy the comforts of home that he longed for so much on his journey. Bilbo Baggins undergoes a hero’s journey in The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. He departs from his home, is initiated into a more mature mindset, undergoes a road of trials, goes through his innermost cave, and is returned home and reintegrated into society. Bilbo’s journey is also a quest for self identity, because he realizes his place as “quite a little fellow in a wide world” and learns to balance out his respectable Baggins heritage with his adventurous Took background (Tolkien 363).
Here is where the differences start to appear. The hobbit refers to something as simple as climbing a tree as an adventure. The prominent business man thinks that spending a weekend away from his wife and family is an adventure. To set forth upon an adventure of any kind a person needs to be free again, both characters define freedom in different ways. Bilbo simply needs to be away from the influence of his friends and family to find out what he really wants for himself and what he wants to do about it. Bilbo finds freedom when he makes the choice to follow the dwarves into the unknown. When Babbitt is finally given freedom when he is able to go camping alone with his friends for a week he is suddenly terrified about what he is going to do with himself. Babbitt’s friends seem to bring out his inner-self when he is finally pulled away from home and on a train going to Maine. Once up in Maine the men say that they are going to “loaf by ourselves and smoke and cuss and be natural';. In other words they are going to be free from the rules imposed on them by their wives, families and the community itself.
A good adventure can start with the foolishest things planned or not, it's challenges await. Bilbo Baggins is a Hobbit who is one day greeted by a wizard named Gandalf, who invites him on an adventure. Because Hobbits are known for not going on adventures he declined, but once the 12 dwarves came, he was inclined to do so. In The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien uses imagery to assist the reader visualizing the terror Bilbo feels, as he gets over his fear for adventures.
Then one day a wizard by the name of Gandalf comes and gives Bilbo the opportunity to go on an adventure. Bilbo turns his offer down, but the next day thirteen dwarves come to his house. They have meals together and they sleep at Bilbo’s house. Gandalf then convinces him to go on an adventure with them. Bilbo is many things, in the beginning he is flat, static, main, and he is the protagonist.
A hero. Today, by definition, to be a hero is to have abundant power, defiance, to attain fame and wealth, and to have the intrepidity to help the ones who cannot defend for themselves. However, Bilbo Baggins, the protagonist of The Hobbit, by J.R.R Tolkien, grows to be a hero without possessing any of these qualities after he partakes in an adventure to help reclaim the Dwarves’ homeland from the dragon Smaug. This quest to the Lonely Mountain brings the indolent hobbit into a completely new world, where he faces trouble and experiences a region of supernatural wonder. Bilbo’s adequacy and heroism are shown in the adventure through his latent cunningness and courageous acts, and through the loyalty and devotion he shows to his companions.
Hobbits do not typically like to be adventurous, and Bilbo is no different. He likes being safe, warm, and supplied with handkerchiefs at all times.
Elrond did not approve of the dwarves expedition ,or their love for gold. He also hated the dragons for their wickedness. The author reveals this when he states, “He took it and gazed long at it, and he shook his head; for if he did not altogether approve of the dwarves and their love for gold, he hated dragons and their cruel wickedness, and he grieved to remember the ruin town of Dale and its merry bells and burned banks, and burned banks of the bright River Running.” Even if he did not approve of the dwarves love of gold and their expedition, he still tremendously hated
Bilbo begins his long journey with the dwarves, who at the time were still skeptical of Bilbo’s abilities. The dwarves didn’t see why they needed such a small incompetent hobbit with them along their journey. Gandalf tells them to stop complaining and to trust that there is more to Bilbo than meets the eye (Tolkien 6). Bilbo soon shows his courage and heroism for the first time in the story when they run into their first obstacle, three large trolls huddled around a campfire. Bilbo, who was once a shy, non-adventurous type, begins to develop into a hero as he tries to steal one of the trolls’ money purses. This is a dramatic scene in the novel because it was Bilbo’s very first act outside his comfort zone. It was this...
At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Baggins starts out at his comfy little hobbit home, but suddenly a grand, wise wizard shows up. Not long after, 12 dwarves began to appear, one by one at Bilbo’s door, and they have come to carry him off on a life-changing adventure, full of greed. That was the beginning of our hairy hobbit’s transformation from a shy, quiet hobbit, to a strong and bold life-saving hero, who enchants any who come in contact with him. For example of his strength and boldness, would be in chapter 5, when Bilbo rhymes riddles for an unknown creature, who calls itself Gollum. Bilbo would’ve been eaten if he were to have lost, but took his chances, and risked it anyway. After all, it did get him out of that goblin-infested cave.
The most notable difference between the two is their interaction with dragons. You may think of an elf as a short, spritely little thing with pointy ears, and maybe they even make toys. But the Elves of Alagaesia and Middle Earth are anything but. Humanoid in appearance they are tall, ethereal, and powerful beings.
The challenges and scenarios faced by Bilbo are similar to those faced by my grandpa with his immigration from Germany, and Percy in The Lightning Thief, showing how they relate. In life, we deal with many uncertainties and challenges that are often reflected in novels of fiction yet come out stronger with new experiences by
In the story of “The Hobbit”, each character takes on a specific characteristic. In each of these characters identity on the surface is decided more by their race, family and their past rather than anything else in the beginning of the story. By making definite choices each character comes to define their own fate and
Throughout The Hobbit by J.R.R tolkien, themes are portrayed and are necessary for the story line. The three main themes in the novel are the prevalence of greed, how Bilbo changes throughout the story and transforms into a hero and the conflict between good and evil. Greed can change anybody, no matter how heroic or brave they are. In the beginning bilbo is portrayed as quiet hobbit that likes to stay home but that all changes with a knock on the door.
However, the diversity between the two is not always as spot on as they think, well, at least initially they don’t. They share characteristics such as independence and responsibility but play particular roles throughout life. Other characteristics that both compare and contrast such as innocence is a factor. And, of course, everyone develops differently with their own episodes as a child and then to become of