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Bilbo Baggins Hobbit; the protagonist of the story. Bilbo is invited by Gandalf to join him and the dwarves on their journey to the Lonely Mountain, home of Smaug the dragon, to reclaim the treasure that belongs to the dwarves. Often torn between his love of the comforts of home and his desire for adventure, he contributes to the successful accomplishment of the group's purpose and discovers within himself unsuspected resources of courage and ingenuity.Gandalf Wizard; teacher, mentor, and protector of Bilbo; directs the dwarves' expedition to reclaim their treasure from Smaug.Thorin The leader of the dwarves; grandson of Thror, descendent of Thrain the Old who was King under the Mountain when Smaug seized the treasure. The treasure and the throne are his birthright, and Gandalf gives him a map and a key to the Lonely Mountain left to him by Thror. He dies fighting in the Battle of Five Armies.Balin, Dwalin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Nori, Ori, Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin The other twelve dwarves who go with Thorin, Gandalf, and Bilbo on the long journey.Bert, Tom, and William Trolls from whom Bilbo takes the key to a cave from which he and the dwarves take gold and the swords they use in battle with the Goblins and in the Battle of Five Armies. The trolls are crude and violent and capture the dwarves in order to roast and eat them; the dwarves are rescued by Gandalf, who confuses the trolls into staying out past dawn and turning into stone.Elrond An elf; the proprietor of the Last Homely House at the Edge of Wild and is a leader of the elves.
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Over the past week, Warner Bros. Has been slowly releasing pictures of all the dwarves in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. As a massive fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, my.
He translates the runes on the swords taken from the trolls to reveal that they were originally used in the Goblin-wars and translates the moon-letters on Thorin's map to reveal the importance of Durin's Day.Goblins Ugly, wicked creatures who live in a cave in the Misty Mountains. They capture Bilbo and the dwarves and eat their ponies.
A number of them, including their leader the Great Goblin, are slain by Gandalf and Thorin using the swords taken from the trolls.Gollum The slimy creature who guards the mouth of the cave. He is completely self-centered and talks to himself.
He owns the ring of invisibility that Bilbo steals.Wargs Wild wolves from whom Bilbo and the dwarves hide in trees after they escape from the Goblins. Gandalf sets the Wargs on fire and chases them away, but they return, joined by the Goblins, and try to set fire to the forest. Bilbo and the dwarves are rescued from the trees by eagles.Lord of the Eagles The chief eagle who rescues Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves from the Wargs and flies them to his nest perched on the mountain. The eagles also fly over during the Battle of the Five Armies.Beorn Also called a skin-changer because of his power to change into a bear, which allows him to attack Goblins and Wargs.
He is hospitable to Gandalf, Bilbo, and the dwarves on their way to the Lonely Mountain and gives them ponies and provisions for their journey. He appears at the Battle of Five Armies and fights the Goblins.
Gandalf and Bilbo spend Yule-tide with him on their way back to the hobbit-lands.Elvenking King of the elves who imprisons Thorin and the other dwarves in his dungeon, from which they are rescued by Bilbo who hides the dwarves in barrels and floats them down a river to Lake-town (also called Esgaroth). Elvenking appears at the Battle of Five Armies.Master of Lake-town The ruler of Esgaroth, the town of men also called Lake-town, to which Bilbo and the dwarves escape from the palace of the Elvenking. The Master's power is challenged by Thorin, and the Master is ultimately replaced by Bard when the Master is corrupted by a share in the dwarves' treasure.Smaug The dragon who lives underground in the Lonely Mountain, where he keeps watch over the treasure hoard that rightfully belongs to Thorin.Bard The archer from Lake-town who kills Smaug the dragon and eventually becomes Master of Lake-town.Dain Cousin of Thorin; with an army of dwarves, he comes to aid Thorin's band in the Battle of Five Armies.
The Hobbitis one of my all-time favorite books. It contains the best elements of fantasy, adventure, and humor, unforgettable characters, and plenty of daring-do. Here are 37 of my favorite quotes:
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hold, and that means comfort.”
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something…You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“Gandalf, dwarves, and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit–may the hair on his toes never fall out! All praise to his wine and ale!”
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“Trolls simply detest the sight of dwarves (uncooked).”
“Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?”
“Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.”
“Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!”
“Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.”
“And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?”
“If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.”
“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”
“The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.”
“This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.”
“We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. Make you late for dinner!”
“Then 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.”
“Please don’t cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.”
“‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!’ So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
“A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold sigh, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in the flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.”
“Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.”
“I come from under hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen…I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number…I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me…I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am barrel-rider.”
“That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.”
“Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.”
“‘What do you mean?’ he said. ‘Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?’”
“‘Where did you go to, if I may ask?’ said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
‘To look ahead,’ said he.
‘And what brought you back in the nick of time?’
‘Looking behind,’ said he.”
‘To look ahead,’ said he.
‘And what brought you back in the nick of time?’
‘Looking behind,’ said he.”
“There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are all over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”
“He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented in the same moment.”
“Every worm has his weak spot.”
“My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws pears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”
“Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities.”
“‘You have nice manners for a thief and a liar,’ said the dragon.”
“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.”
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!”
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