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The Hobbit is set in Middle-earth and follows home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit of the title, who joins the wizard Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves of Thorin's Company, on a quest to reclaim the dwarves' home and treasure from the dragon Smaug. Bilbo's journey takes him from his peaceful rural surroundings into more sinister territory.
Since Alexander had, many years earlier, been shown a part of Tolkien's verse translation of about one fifth of Beowulf by Christopher Tolkien, he had expected the rendering to be in verse; he notes that both the Tolkien verse fragment, and Alexander's own version, imitated the form of the original, "stimulated by the example of Ezra Pound's ...
Flieger's analysis of heroes in Beowulf, fairy tales, and The Lord of the Rings [40] Beowulf Fairy tale hero Aragorn Frodo; Bold hero, victorious — Battle of Helm's Deep, Battle of the Pelennor Fields — — Small beginnings: Little man sets out on quest — Hobbit sets out not knowing where he's going Bitter ending — — Defeat and ...
Since the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, artists have sought to capture aspects of Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy novels in paintings and drawings. He liked the work of Cor Blok, [21] Mary Fairburn, [22] Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, [23] and Ted Nasmith, [24] but not the illustrations by Horus Engels for the German edition of The Hobbit ...
Warner Brothers developed two free-to-play online strategy games in collaboration with Kabam for promoting the film series which were The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth released for Android and iOS on 8 November 2012 and The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age playable online on web browsers and as a Facebook app that was released on 21 March 2013.
The economy of Middle-earth is J. R. R. Tolkien's treatment of economics in his fantasy world of Middle-earth.Scholars such as Steven Kelly have commented on the clash of economic patterns embodied in Tolkien's writings, giving as instances the broadly 19th century agrarian but capitalistic economy of the Shire, set against the older world of feudal Gondor.
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.
[2] The work provides the same sort of literary analysis of The Hobbit that Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume The History of Middle-earth provides for The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. In Rateliff's view, the work is complementary to Douglas A. Anderson's 1988 work The Annotated Hobbit, which presents and comments upon a single text of ...