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Scholars, including psychoanalysts, have commented that J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth stories about both Bilbo Baggins, protagonist of The Hobbit, and Frodo Baggins, protagonist of The Lord of the Rings, constitute psychological journeys. Bilbo returns from his journey to help recover the Dwarves' treasure from Smaug the dragon's lair in the ...
[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 ...
Business studies, often simply called business, is a field of study that deals with the principles of business, management, and economics. [ 1 ] It combines elements of accountancy, finance, marketing, organizational studies, human resource management, and operations. Business studies is a broad subject, [ 2 ] where the range of topics is ...
The chapter follows all the main action of The Lord of the Rings. The story tells how the One Ring, a ring of power made by the Dark Lord Sauron, lost for many centuries, has reappeared and is in the hands of a hobbit, Frodo Baggins, in the England-like [1] Shire. If Sauron finds the Ring, he will use it to take over the whole of Middle-earth.
Red Book of Westmarch. The Red Book of Westmarch (sometimes the Thain's Book[ T 1 ] after its principal version) is a fictional manuscript written by hobbits, related to the author J. R. R. Tolkien's frame stories. It is an instance of the found manuscript conceit, [ 1 ] a literary device to explain the source of his legendarium.
Balin is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien 's world of Middle-earth. A Dwarf, he is an important supporting character in The Hobbit, and is mentioned in The Fellowship of the Ring. As the Fellowship travel through the underground realm of Moria, they find Balin's tomb and the Dwarves' book of records, which tells how Balin founded a ...
Thorin describes his background to Bilbo in ch. 1 "An Unexpected Party" In The Hobbit, Thorin, a Dwarf-King in exile and twelve other Dwarves visited Bilbo Baggins at his home in the Shire. The wizard Gandalf had advised Thorin and the other dwarves to hire Bilbo as a burglar to help them steal their treasure back from the dragon Smaug. Smaug had attacked the Dwarves's mountain, Erebor (also ...
ISBN. 978-0-261-10275-0. OCLC. 60000827. The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology is a scholarly study of the Middle-earth works of J. R. R. Tolkien written by Tom Shippey and first published in 1982. The book discusses Tolkien's philology, and then examines in turn the origins of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings ...