Intelligence Or Physical Strength In 'The Hobbit'

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The Hobbit , a book were there somthing like people but that's a little different nothing special. what is more important at this point were intelligence or physical strength. I feel that it would be intelligence because there was a point in the book were the dwarves and the hobbit was captured by the trolls and, the trolls was going to kill them if it wasn't for the wizard. The wizard had acted and sounded like one of the trolls so when the sun came up they had turned to stone because they were fight about how they would eat or kill them and that worked because of the wizards help. And that shows that you don't need to have physical strength to get out bad up bring. legends,and folktales often reflect the values of a given culture.

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