... must return the ponies and travel on foot. When they reach the path, Gandalf also leaves them, wishing them the best and again reminding them to never stray from the path, for 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 ... . Thorin quickly takes the key that came with the map and places it in the rock; when he turns it, the outlines of the door appear. The dwarves and th! e hobbit push the door inward and stare down in...

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• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

... for leadership, he really provides very little until the end. It is Gandalf and Bilbo that lead the group across the world to Lonely Mountain. Thorin shows himself to be nothing but stubborn. He refuses to make good with the Elvenking. When they get to the mountain, he wants Bilbo to go in first and does not enter the lair himself until he sees that everyone else is ... Rivendell. In this tale he always plays the part of a gracious host. Elrond reads the moon letter on the map that no one detected previously. These instructions make it possible for the dwarves to enter the mountain. Grea...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... an overhanging arched cave on the side of a mountain, when a secret door emerged, "At that very moment he heard a sharp crack behind him. There on the grey stone in the grass was an enormous thrush, nearly coal black, its pale yellow breast freckled with darks spots. Crack! It had caught a snail and was knocking in on the stone. Crack! Crack... this scene easily pictured because it is descriptive as so ... not only relates Bilbo's thoughts and feelings but also comments on them. Poetry The Hobbit, is a story which is set back in a "forgotten" ancient time of, war, multiple races (mortal...

• Word Count: 4002
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

... . Bilbo met back up with his colleagues and continued on their quest. Little to their knowledge they were headed straight into an enormous pack of wolves who were allies with the goblins. When the wolves spotted the dwarves the immediately pursued them. With no other place to go the fifteen travelers climbed up some trees temporarily evading the perilous danger they were in. Gandalf conjured up a ... King. "In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood. On his head was a crown of berries and red leaves..." (Tolkien 171) The dwarves...

• Word Count: 2919
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School