... for a comfortable, peaceful life. Bilbo's father was from the typical, well-to-do Baggins family, but his mother was from the Tooks, a family infamous for their tendency to go on adventures--a very unhobbit-like activity. Despite his Took blood, Bilbo is content to stay at home. On the day the story begins, he is enjoying a ... dark things lurk in Mirkwood of which even the wizard does not know. With that, the dwarves and the hobbit plunge into the forest. dwarves. Strange eyes peer out at them from the trees. Soon, they cannot tell night from day, and they can only think of getting out ...

• Word Count: 5600
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

... hear something scurry up the tree and Haldir cannot recognize it. It flees as soon as the branches shake, sensing hostile elves. The elves have warned their countrymen and they are setting an ambush that will hopefully stop the orcs. In the morning they leave early and walk over the beautiful landscape of the ... in a battle with evil forces. The mirror goes black and a red giant eye appears within. It begins to grow larger and Frodo thinks it is watching him. He begins to panic, but the vision fades. Galadriel assures him that the dark lord cannot reach him through the mirror. She knows...

• Word Count: 7779
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... what he has done and seen. Pippin then tells Gandalf that when he looked into the globe he saw a tower, around which nine huge bat-like things were flying. One of them came up close and he saw Sauron. Sauron saw Pippin and imagined that Sarumon had captured him. Sauron told Sarumon to bring him ... sun's light is defiled among the ash heaps of the Dark Lords terrain. Amidst this desolation the weary travelers find a dark hole into which they crawl and go to sleep. When Sam wakes up, he finds Gollum debating with himself over Frodo's sleeping body. Each time Gollum thinks of taking the Ri...

• Word Count: 4146
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School