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The chapter changes the book's tone from the first chapter's light-hearted hobbit partying, and introduces major themes of the book. These include a sense of the depth of time behind unfolding events , the power of the Ring , and the inter-related questions of providence, free will, and predestination .
A Hobbit point of view is shared in The Lord of the Rings by narrative, dialogue, embedded stories, and songs, for example in the first chapter. [T 2] Seq Narrative Dialogue Story Poem/song Place 1: Hobbit: The Shire: 2: Gaffer Gamgee: The Ivy Bush inn 3: Hobbits: 4: Gaffer Gamgee: 5: Hobbits: 6: Omniscient: The Shire 7: Gandalf/Bilbo: Bag End ...
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit with a commentary by Douglas A. Anderson.It was first published in 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first American publication of The Hobbit, and by Unwin Hyman of London.
[4] [8] [9] Robert Plank adds that Tolkien could have chosen as a pattern any number of other returning heroes. [8] This theme, of a last obstacle to the heroic homecoming, was paradoxically both long-planned (certainly back to the time of writing of the Lothlorien chapter) and, in the person of Saruman-as-Sharkey, "a very late entry". [4]
As documented in The Return of the Shadow, Tolkien had written a five-page draft, what he called the "first germ" of The Lord of the Rings, by 19 December 1937 when he claimed to his publisher "I have written the first chapter of a new story about Hobbits – 'A long expected party'." [8] He completed a fourth, much fuller, draft of the chapter ...
The 3000th story to be broadcast in the BBC's long-running children's programme Jackanory was The Hobbit, in 1979. Four narrators told the story with Bilbo's part being played by Bernard Cribbins. [24] In the BBC's 1981 radio serialization of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo is played by John Le Mesurier. [25]
This includes the Harfoots, [18] who are depicted as precursors to the popular Hobbit race from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. They were included because the showrunners felt the series would not truly feel like Middle-earth to the audience without Hobbits or characters that were "satisfyingly Hobbit-adjacent". [19]
[T 1] The Lonely Mountain is the destination of the protagonists, including the titular Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, and is the scene of the novel's climax. The mountain has been described as the goal of Bilbo's psychological quest in The Hobbit ; scholars have noted that it and The Lord of the Rings are both structured as quests to a ...