Tolkin spent over 20 years writing his epic tales of elves, wizards and the adventures of the Hobbits. He is said to be as much as a scholar as he is a literary writer. Tolkin extensively research when creating the background mythology of middle earth and the beings that live there. Tolkin started writing the Hobbit in 1930. It literally started fro a bedtime story he created for his children, six years later the Hobbit was published.
The Hobbit has become a literature classic and unmistakably a great work. His in depth research make his characters detailed and complex, somewhat mirroring the differenced between human personalities. Tolkin’s world of middle earth too mirrors what we might see in out landscape so it’s not hard to imagine his world and his people. Tolkin has been so pedantic about detailing and creating his world that he created
an Elvin language and wrote in depth explaining his characters past generations and detailing legends in middle earths history. It is quite extraordinary the lengths at which Tolkin detailed his work.
The Hobbits central character is Bilbo Baggins. He is of course a Hobbit. Tolkin describes a Hobbit as more human like than elf or dwarf.
They are small fellows full of heart yet not usually brave. It befalls Bilbo Baggins that he must go on a quest with a troop of Dwarves to reclaim their treasure from the last living dragon. Through this perilous journey they meet all types s of friends and foes. As they travel they loose track of each other by way of capture but they would always find away to free and rejoin in their quest.
Another important character of Tolkins is Gandalf the wizard who is always watching the ...
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