Question

3 examples of imagery of hobbit chapter 9

Answer 1

The Hobbit’s main theme is Bilbo’s development into a hero, which more broadly represents the development of a common person into a hero. At the beginning of the story, Bilbo is timid, comfortable, and complacent in his secure little hole at Bag End. When Gandalf talks him into embarking on the quest with Thorin’s dwarves, Bilbo becomes so frightened that he faints. But as the novel progresses, Bilbo prevails in the face of danger and adversity, justifying Gandalf’s early claim that there is more to the little hobbit than meets the eye.

Answer 2

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3 examples of imagery of hobbit

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In The Hobbit, Tolkien spends a lot of time describing the landscape. As Bilbo travels with Thorin's company, he sees plains, forests, and lots of mountains. The connotation changes as Bilbo's attitude does.

This shift in connotation is most noticeable in the way he describes the mountains. See this first passage, from early in the novel:

'One morning they forded a river at a wide shallow place full of the noise of stones and foam. The far bank was steep and slippery. When they got to the top of it, leading their ponies, they saw that the great mountains had marched down very near to them. Already they seemed only a day's easy journey from the feet of the nearest. Dark and drear it looked, though there were patches of sunlight on its brown sides, and behind its shoulders the tips of snow-peaks gleamed.'

How do you feel about this mountain? Probably some anticipation. A slight nervousness, but confidence that it can be scaled.

Tolkien describes the mountain as 'great,' and only 'a day's easy journey' away. This makes the mountain feel approachable. It seems 'dark and drear,' but shows 'patches of sunlight.' The image is static. This mountain gives a solemn feel, but not despairing. It's the first mountain Bilbo has seen, and he is in awe.

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They were high up in a narrow place, with a dreadful fall into a dim valley at one side of them. There they were sheltering under a hanging rock for the night, and he lay beneath a blanket and shook from head to toe . . . then came a wind and a rain, and the wind whipped the rain and the hail about in every direction, so that an overhanging rock was no protection at all. Soon they were getting drenched and their ponies were standing with their heads down and their tails between their legs, and some of them were whinnying with fright.'

This passage carries a different connotation: panic. This image is active: 'the wind whipped the rain' and 'they were getting drenched.' Tolkien's verbs put the reader into the middle of a violent storm. Less description makes the image fly by quicker, contributing to the sense of panic. The words in this passage have negative and violent connotations. Bilbo is further along in his journey, and wondering why he ever came to begin with.

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The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien is said to be one of the greatest children's novels of all time. The novel, due to its use of such characters as goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others is in tradition, a fairy tale. The tale centers on a small hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins. It follows the journey of a band of dwarves, a wizard named Gandalf, and their robber, Bilbo on their way to retrieving treasure that had long been taken away from them. The hobbit traveled all over Middle-Earth, beginning with Bilbo's tiny hobbit-hole in the ground, to Mirkwood forest, to finally reaching the Mountain in which the dragon Smaug lives. Tolkien uses a large amount of imagery in his writing which can been seen through settings in The Hobbit.

For example, when Bilbo is surrounded by darkness in Mirkwood he calls it "a patch of midnight that had never been cleared away" (Tolkien 171). To be surrounded by total and complete darkness is alarming. Bilbo is frightened and sits down to rest after frantically searching for the dwarves. This example of imagery also helps empathize the cryptic nature of Mirkwood forest.

Tolkien uses a larger amount of dark imager in The Hobbit then he does light. This is because the narrator concentrates chiefly on Bilbo's feelings about situations and places. Bilbo isn't very happy to be on the adventure and it considerably shows in his descriptions of people and places. Throughout the better part of the tale, he mentions his warm, hobbit-hole in the ground and wishes to be back there rather then journeying to Smaug's mountain.

Bilbo was in situations in which he had to fend for himself. When Gandalf, Bilbo, and the dwarves were kidnapped by the goblins, Bilbo escaped and had to survive in the Mountains by himself. He had had no companions and it had been pitch black in the tunnels. He was also in many situations in which he had to fend of his life, as well as the lives of the thirteen dwarves.

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