... trip home. It is really boring since there is nothing to expect and the reader knows that the hobbit would get home safely. I think it should have been shorter. Character Development The dialogues, monologues, actions and notes of the author do the creation of the characters. An example for dialogue: "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses..." (Bilbo, page 22), it shows that he ... action is when Thorin blocked the Gate in the mountain, that shows that the treasure is important to Thorin and he would rather die than give it away. An example for notes by the autho...

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... undertaken by Robert Jordan, but as he passed away in 2007, Brandon Sanderson finished writing the saga thanks to the notes the original writer left and Harriet Jordan (Robert Jordan's wife) advices. The action takes place in a fantasy world where the devil (the Dark One) was captured and imprisoned three millennia ago but the prison is weakening and Humanity needs once more a savior. This review will summarize Robert ... Jordans work, compare it to The Lord of the Rings and a Song of Ice and Fire and I will give my own standpoint on this series. Lets start by describing the saga. What ...

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... to take over his somewhat subdued manner (Tolkien 3). The novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tokien follows Joseph Campbell's depiction of a hero as written in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces from Bilbo's initial refusal to go on the adventure to his final gift to the dwarves. The beginning of The Hobbit reads as it should according to the pattern of the Campbellian hero. Bilbo is "called to adventure" by ... and a wizard (Gray 5). Gandalf helps Bilbo and the dwarves get out of quite a few mishaps or tight spots. Then of course the next helpers are the elves. Just to clarify these are t...

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... the whole trilogy. In the ending of The Hobbit, Bilbo passes the ring onto his heir, Frodo. At the beginning of The Fellowship of the Rings, the first book in the trilogy, Frodo departs, accompanied by his friends: embarking on the journey to destroy the ring by casting it into the Crack of Doom in the land of Mordor as he promised Bilbo. The second half of this book, all of The Two Towers, the second book, and the ... than life Aragorn, and the ordinary Frodo, two of the main heroes have been identified through the use of Jung and Campbell's archetypal theory. Tolkien created these her...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School