A. The Story

1a.
The Hobbit, or. There and back again
1b.
J.R.R. Tolkien
2a.
This story takes place in the past.
I think it around the middle ages. In the book there stood that it is 7000 years ago. So in the age of 5000 before Christ.
Because(quote): “On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had been build by wicked people.”
But actually it doesn’t take place in any time, because it’s a fantasy book and wizard’s, dwarfs, dragons, elves and orks haven’t never exist.
2b.

I think the story takes 1 year long.
Because they have a long adventure and you read a lot of that they have been somewhere a week or 2 weeks etc. You can’t be so exact, because the way back isn’t a long part in the book, so you aren’t get to know how long they are doing about that. I guess it take not so much time as the way to Lonely Mountain.
2c.
The story take place at the beginning in Hobbiton, were Bilbo Baggins lives. Then they came in Rivendell, the Misty Mountains, Beorn’s house, Mirkwood, Esgaroth, Dale and Lonely Mountain in Wilderland.
The hobbits lives under/in hills. All the other people in the book lives in little farmhouses. Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarfs are the most of the time in the countryside, because the city’s are long distance away of each other. Most of the people are poor, because it likes like the middle age, so they are farmers.
Hobbits have a social background that they never on adventure, but there was one great hobbit how did it. Bilbo is a descendant of him, so that the reason he finally goes on a adventure. The dwarfs have a social background that Lonely Mountain was in the past of them and now the want it back. They all use English, except the elves, how also use elves language.
Because Bilbo lives in Hobbiton and they are going to Lonely Mountain, the rest of the places between these two places are good described to say that the story also take place there. The ancestors of them are so well described that you can know their social background. There is much elves quotes, that Elrond (a elf) must translate to English for the others.
3.
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit, hobbits stay most of the time at home. But one day there came thirteen dwarfs and a wizard who asks him to go on an adventure. The dwarfs wanted their home the “Lonely Mountain” back, but there is now a dragon called Smaug. Bilbo and the others go to there and Bilbo murdered the dragon. So the dwarfs get the mountain back and Bilbo can back to home.
4a.
A.
Main characters: Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf
B.

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit and hobbits always stay in Hobbiton but this hobbit is different, because he goes on an adventure with thirteen dwarfs and a wizard. He has good relationship with Gandalf, an old friend of him how he trusted. The dwarfs he found in the beginning strange and he don’t like them, but after a long travelling with them he has a good relationship with them. He is looking like a very tiny fat human with big hairy feet. Hobbits are always polite to others.
Gandalf is a wizard. He is someone who has be everywhere. He know a lot of people and has with the most of them a really good relationship. He has also had a good relationship with Bilbo, an old friend of him. He is a very smart person, he always use his head. So he as also a good relationship with the dwarfs who he liked to help. Then he had also a good relationship with Elrond, the leader of the elves, so they can stay there for a while.
C.
Bilbo Baggins is a main character, because you follow him in his adventure. You also get a lot of information about him, his looking, his house and his descendants. He is also the hero of the story, because of him the dwarfs escaped that times for deadly happenings.
Gandalf is a main character, because he is the one who start this adventure. He also is a sort of hero, because he is a very smart person, so many times he helps Bilbo and the dwarfs in terrible states.
D.
Bilbo Baggins: “At last they pushed their chairs back, and Bilbo made a move to collect the plates and glasses. ‘I suppose you will stay to supper?’ He said in his politest unpressing tones. ‘Of course!’ Said Thorin’” Gandalf: “Gandalf in the meantime was still standing outside the door, and laughing long but quietly. After a while he stepped up, and with the spike on his staff scratched a queer sign on the hobbit’s beautiful green front-door.”
4b.
Minor characters: Ori, Nori, Dori, Oin, Gloin, Kili, Fili, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Balin, Dwalin, Thorin Oakenshield, Elrond, Gollum, Beorn, Durin, Bard, Girion, Dain, the trolls, the goblins, the wargs, the spiders, the wood-elves, the birds, the eagles, the people of Dale and the people of Esgaroth.
5a.
That there can always be a strange happening in your live. Then it’s your task to choose if you want it or not. And reputation isn’t always the best, follow your hart.
5b.

J.R.R. Tolkien written this story for his children. But they found it a good book, so he remarked it. He also write this book to learn that you must make choices in your live and then you must follow your hart.
5c.
The hidden message is conveyed to the reader in the beginning, Bilbo must take a choice. In the beginning he had regret of his choice, but in the end he is happy that he has done it.
5d.
“’That leaves you just ten minutes. You will have to run,’ said Gandalf. ‘But -,’ said Bilbo. ‘No time for it,’ said the wizard. ‘But -,’ said Bilbo. ‘No time for that either! Off you go!’ To the end of his days Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside, without a hat, a walking-stick or any money, or anything that he usually took when he went out.”

B. Your Opinion

1a.
Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf
1b.
Bilbo Baggins is a calm hobbit who wants everything be perfect. When his choice was there that he goes on an adventure he become different. He learns a lot of things and you use this things. He also is a smart hobbit, because he use the ring a the times it must be, because they were dead as he didn’t it.
Gandalf is a well thinking wizard. He thinks about everything and that helps the others often. He also make choices. But he look after it as it will be perfect. He also have a good relationship with other people, that helps him often. And he is always calm.
1c.

“’That leaves you just ten minutes. You will have to run,’ said Gandalf. ‘But -,’ said Bilbo. ‘No time for it,’ said the wizard. ‘But -,’ said Bilbo. ‘No time for that either! Off you go!’ To the end of his days Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside, without a hat, a walking-stick or any money, or anything that he usually took when he went out.”
“’Excellent!’ said Gandalf, as he stepped from behind a tree, and helped Bilbo to climb down out of a thorn-bush. Then Bilbo understood. It was the wizard’s voice that he kempt the trolls bickering and quarrelling, until the light came and made an end of them.”
2a.
Thorin Oakenshield and Gollum
2b.
Thorin Oakenshield is a quite normal dwarf, but when the others go singing and dancing he still stay sitting, because he found himself too important for that things. I found that really nonsense, because everyone must have fun.
Gollum is a really rare creature and he is obsessed with the ring, he get it with a birthday party. But he is attach to it. When Bilbo get it, Gollum is so mad, that he wants it back, how? It doesn’t matter him.
2c.
“Thereupon the twelve dwarves – not Thorin, he was too important, and stayed talking with Gandalf – jumped to their feet, and made tall piles of all the things.
Bilbo founds Gollum when he fall in the gave and you don’t know the way out, he asked Gollum, but he won’t help, so there is a riddle game, who Bilbo win, then Gollum sees that Bilbo has the ring and is very angry of him, so he don’t help him found the way out.
3a.

You feel a lot of emotion in this book. The emotion of happiness, sorrow and frighten.
3b.
You feel the emotion of happiness when the dwarfs make fun , singing and dancing etc. You feel that there isn’t anything to worry about. You feel the emotion of sorrow when Thorin, Fili and Kili were killed in the last part of the book. Then you think, they have lived throughout the whole book and then when everything is good again, the were killed. You feel the emotion of frighten a lot in this book, Bilbo, the dwarfs and Gandalf are very often in danger and survive it scarcely.
3c.
“Off they went, not waiting for trays, balancing columns of plates, each with a bottle on the top, with one hand, while the hobbit ran after them almost squeaking with fright: ‘please be careful!’ and ‘please, don’t trouble! I can manage’ But the dwarves only started to sing.”
“As each dwarf came up and looked at the fire, and the spilled jugs, and the gnawed mutton, in surprise, pop! Went a nasty smelly sack over his head, and he was down. Soon Dwalin lay by Balin, and Fili and Kili together, and Dori and Nori and Ori all in a heap, and Oin and Gloin and Bifur and Bofur and Bombur piled uncomfortably near the fire.”
4a.
“’I am Bard, and by my hand was the dragon slain and your treasure delivered. Is that not a matter that concerns you? Moreover I am by right descent the heir of Girion of Dale, and in your hoard is mingled much of the wealth of his halls and towns, which of old Smaug stole. Is not that a matter of which we may speak? Further in his last battle Smaug destroyed the dwellings of the men of Esgaroth, and I am yet the servant of their Master. I would speak for him and ask whether you have no thought for the sorrow and misery of his people. They aided you in your distress, and in recompense you have thus far brought ruin only, though doubtless undersigned.’”
4b.

In this part of the book Bard is explaining to the dwarfs why he wants to fight to Smaug. In this part the battle to the dragon Smaug is started, here Bard is telling why he wants to fight, then the dwarfs also telling why they want Smaug dead. After this part the fight with Smaug is starting.
4c.
This is the best part of the book, because here the tension is raising, here you were really in the book and you don’t want to stop reading then. The is also the moment were you have waiting of, want they say in the beginning in the book that the want the Lonely Mountain back and that the dragon Smaug is there right now, so you expected that the will fight with Smaug and that is going to happen here.
5a.
The writer has succeed in conveying the message to me. Because he let know the feeling about Bilbo Baggins, so you know he doesn’t want go on an adventure in the beginning, but then at the end he is happy that he has done it. Because he has done it his reputation in Hobbiton is now very small, but when he must make the choice to go or not he follows his hart. So the writer has succeed in conveying the message to me.
5b.
The writer makes his message clear owing the thinking of Bilbo Baggins, he is very often thinking of this is the good way. Is it good that you goes on a adventure of has he still must stay in Hobbiton, then he has a calm live without any fear. That Bilbo makes his choice to go was a choice on the hart, there is also quoting in the book that he don’t understand it why he is going to then till his last days. Quote: “To the end of his days Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside, without a hat, a walking-stick or any money, or anything that he usually took when he went out.”
5c.
This message isn’t very important for the book, but more for Bilbo’s one live. This message is really useful, because it is important for people to make choices in their lives and that you always must follow your hart. At the most times that is the right thing.
6a.
How did you come of all this sort creatures and names?
What is going to happen with the dwarfs?
Why has you written a continuation?
6b.

Because there are many rare and not real living creatures in this book, so you must have a lot of fantasy to create them and make them match to the story.
Because you know what is going to happen with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf in the continuation “the Lord of the Rings”, but there isn’t anything written about the dwarfs of this book.
Because the continuation “the Lord of the Rings” is much popular then this book and much longer. And it haven’t much with this book to happen, so why has you written it.

C. The Summary

1.
This story is about Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, a small human-like creature, who lives in a nice hobbit-hole. On a morning in April, Gandalf, an old wizard, comes along and asks him if he wants to come with him on adventure. Hobbits don’t like adventure so he says no. The next day thirteen dwarves, by the names of Ori, Nori, Dori, Oin, Gloin, Kili, Fili, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Balin, Dwalin and Thorin Oakenshield, and Gandalf come for tea. They talk and sing about a treasure which was stolen by Smaug, a dragon, and now lies in the former kingdom of the dwarves under the Lonely Mountain in the East, where Thorin's grandfather was the king. At last Bilbo decides to go with them, and the next day they left on ponies.

In the beginning Bilbo liked the adventure but later, when the weather turns bad, he wished to go home. One day the pony with the food fell in the water, so they had lost much of their food. They are cold and wet and they are looking for a fire. They can see one burning in the forest. Bilbo, who had been appointed as the burglar, has to see who is at the fire and sees that there are three trolls. He wants to show something and he tried pick-pocketing one of them. The troll noticed it and grabbed him. The dwarves came to help him and they are all caught too, but Bilbo escapes. The trolls quarrel about the best way of preparing the dwarves for breakfast. At that moment Gandalf came back – he had been away for some hours – and he saved the dwarves by saying some things with one of the trolls’ voices, so they kept quarrelling until sunrise and they turned into stone, because that is what all trolls do in sunlight.

The dwarves are freed and the have a look in the hole of the trolls where they find food, gold and weapons from the famous city of Gondolin. They buried the gold and took some of the swords and went on further, over the edge of the wild where danger is everywhere. Soon Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarves arrived at Rivendell, the Last Homely House where Elrond lived with other elves. They stayed there for two weeks to rest. Elrond studies Thorin’s map of the Lonely Mountain and read the moon-letters (which can only be read in the same season and with the same moon phase as when they are written), which say how they can find the secret door on the West Side of the mountain.

On Midsummer Day they left and headed for the Misty Mountains. When the company approached the pass over the mountains it started thundering and the group of fifteen took shelter in a cave. At night this turned out to be the front door of the goblins’ complex. They are all captured except for Gandalf, and the ponies were killed. Gandalf used some magic to free them again and he also killed the leader of the goblins. Then he led the flight through the goblins’ tunnels. On that flight Bilbo is lost. He tried to find the exit on his own in the dark. He found a magic ring and he met Gollum, a nasty creature who lived alone in the dark, had no friends and ate fish and sometimes a goblin. They started telling riddles to each other; if Bilbo is the first who doesn’t know the answer he’ll be eaten by Gollum, and if Gollum is the first he’ll show Bilbo the way out. Bilbo won, but not in a very fair way; he was wondering aloud what he had in his pockets, and Gollum thought that this was a riddle. Gollum started looking for his magic ring and he wouldn't help Bilbo till he has found it, so Bilbo leaves without Gollum, who thinks that Bilbo has found the ring.


Bilbo slipped the ring on his finger and fought through the tunnels, for Gollum was chasing him. Bilbo fell and Gollum ran past him without noticing, at that moment Bilbo knew that the ring makes him invisible. Gollum expected for Bilbo to flee to the exit of the tunnel and he ran there. Bilbo followed and outside he met his friend again. The company is left quickly because they expected an attack of the goblins. At a certain moment there was indeed an attack, but one of the warg, a kind of wolves. They withstand the attack by using some magic fire but the soon arriving goblins lit the trees on fire in which they have climbed and the dwarves expect to lose the fight. Then the eagles arrived and picked them up, gave them some food and dropped them on the carrack the next morning.

The group of fifteen went to Beorn, who doesn’t really like people. They had a short rest and they headed for Mirkwood on Beorn’s ponies. On the edge of the wood they had to send the ponies back to Beorn and Gandalf left them because he has some urgent business in the south.

Mirkwood is a very dark and dangerous forest where is nearly nothing to find to eat or to drink. At a certain point they had to cross the enchanted river, which Beorn had warned them about. They used a boat to cross it, but the last dwarf, fat Bombur, feel in the river and fell asleep, so the others had to carry him. When he woke up there was no food left, but they saw fire and heard singing in the wood north of the path at night. When they reached the fire (Gandalf had warned them not to do that) they saw the wood-elves having a feast. When one of them stepped into the circle of light all the lights went out and some new ones appeared a little further ahead. This happened three times-the last time they lost each other completely and the next morning Bilbo found the dwarves – except Thorin, who was already captured by the wood-elves – captured by spiders. By using his magic ring Bilbo rescued them but soon the dwarves are captured by the wood-elves because they interrupted their feast. Bilbo used his magic ring again to stay free. Thorin didn't tell the truth about why they are in the forest, namely the gold under the mountain, so they had to stay there. Regularly empty barrels are sent by the river to Esgaroth, the Lake-town. After two weeks Bilbo helped the dwarves to escape again in the barrels, and in this way they reach Esgaroth.

In Esgaroth Bilbo and the dwarves got a warm welcome, because the songs have come true. The king is back and gold will flow again from under the mountain. When the dwarves were healthy again (they were sick due to travelling in cold wet barrels) they left and went to the foot of the mountain.

After some time Bilbo discovered the place where the secret side-door in the mountain is, but they couldn't open it. At the beginning of winter, when the sun sets and the young moon is on the horizon (the dwarves call this Durin’s day, new year; this day was mentioned on the map of the mountain in moon-letters. At sunset the sun would shine on the keyhole) there appeared a crack in the rock in which Thorin can turn his key to open the door. Bilbo went down to take a look at the dragon. Smaug was asleep and Bilbo saw that there is still a treasure. He picked one golden cup out of it and brought it to the dwarves, who were happy to see it. Later Bilbo went down again and talked to the dragon, which had noticed there was a thief in his hall, and Bilbo found Smaug's weak spot. He told the dwarves about the weak spot, while a thrush listened. Then Smaug attacked them. They fled into the tunnel, and the mountainside with the tunnel is ruined. Smaug flew to Esgaroth, where the people could see him coming, and he attacked the town.

The citizens jumped into the water, even the master fled Tothe Lake, but a few men stayed to fight the dragon. One of these men was Bard, a direct descendant of Girion, lord of Dale, the town near the foot of the mountain. The thrush came and sat on his shoulder and told him Smaug's weak spot. With his last arrow Bard killed the dragon. Many people were wounded so the master got help from the wood-elves, who were already coming. In the meantime Thorin and his company went down and found out that Smaug was not at home. Thorin is looking for the Arken stone but he couldn't find it (Bilbo has found it and put it his pocked). He gave Bilbo a part of the treasure. When he heard that Smaug is dead Thorin sent a raven, aged over hundred years, to Dain, another dwarf-king who lived in the Iron-hills in the east, telling him he needs to come.

The men from Esgaroth went to the mountain armed because the dragon, who they had killed, had demolished their town and they wanted a part of the treasure. The wood-elves came with them. Birds tell Thorin that armed people were coming and he fortified the mountain. When they arrived they asked for a part of the treasure, but Thorin didn’t give it to them. Bilbo went to Bard and gave him the Arken stone so that he would have a better position in the negotiations. Bilbo saw that Gandalf was back. Later Bilbo went to a safe lookout post on the side of the mountain when Dain arrived to attack the men and the wood-elves. At the same moment goblins and wargs came from the north. What follows is called the Battle of Five Armies, in which Thorin, Fili and Kili are killed. First it seemed that the goblins and the wargs were winning, but then the eagles from the Misty Mountains and Beorn arrived. After that, Bilbo went home with Gandalf. Since most of the goblins were killed in the battle it was safe and there weren’t many problems. At the point where the met the trolls they dug up the pots with gold and soon Bilbo is back home, where the Sackville-Bagginses were selling his property, assuming that he is dead. Bilbo had to buy things back. He had lost his reputation, but what did it matter? Some years later Balin and Gandalf came for tea. Balin said that gold is running again in the river and that Bard has rebuilt Dale.
2.
Part1: Bilbo Baggins (main), Gandalf (main), Ori (minor), Nori (minor), Dori (minor), Oin (minor), Gloin (minor), Kili (minor), Fili (minor), Bifur (minor), Bofur (minor), Bombur (minor), Balin (minor), Dwalin (minor), Thorin Oakenshield (minor) and Smaug (minor)
Part2: the trolls (minor)
Part3: Elrond (minor), Durin (minor)
Part4: the goblins (minor) and Gollum (minor)
Part5: the wargs (minor) and the eagles (minor)
Part6: Beorn (minor)

Part7: the spiders (minor) and the wood-elves (minor)
Part8: the people of Esgaroth (minor)
Part9: Non characters are introduced in this part.
Part10: Bard (minor), Girion (minor), the people of Dale (minor) and Dain (minor)
Part11: the birds (minor)
3.
Part1: Bilbo is introducing, later Gandalf and all the thirteen dwarfs are also introducing, here they make clear what they are going to do and Bilbo is going with them, because he follows his hart.
Part2: Bilbo and the dwarfs are captured by trolls but Gandalf rescued them.
Part3: Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarfs are staying a time by Elrond, a elf, there they make clear their real plans.
Part4: They get in a goblins cave and are by captured, Gandalf rescued them again and then Bilbo finds the creature Gollum and founds the ring.
Part5: he escaped by Gollum, because he used the ring. Then the eagles flying him back to the rest.
Part6: They came by Beorn, but stay there not too long, because Gandalf says he has things to do.

Part7: The dwarfs are captured by the spiders and later by the wood-elves, Bilbo used his ring to save them.
Part8: To came to Esgaroth where they get a warm welcome, they stay there in an inn.
Part9: They now make their plans ready to used, Bilbo founds a weak spot of Smaug.
Part10: The people of Dale run away when Smaug attacked, but one man, Bard, stay and killed the dragon with his last arrow.
Part11: The people of Esgaroth and the dwarfs want Lonely Mountain, there is coming a war, who the dwarfs win, after this Bilbo goes back to home.
4.
My summary is three pages long, because this book is quite long, but not very long.
5.
I expected a lot of this book, because I had read “the Lord of the Rings” and have seen all the moves of them. So you expected that the precursor is also a really good book. In the beginning the book likes very boring, because the are telling what a hobbit is etc. That is of course logic, but I know it all, so I don’t matter it. Later the story is exact what I has expected, because their are a lot of rare, not really lives, creatures and there is a lot of action. I had expected that the book has a good end, so that when Smaug is killed it will be the end, but then there came a war. I don’t expected. I hoped that it will be end different, because now Thorin, Fili and Kili were killed, I don’t expected that, because they survived everything, and now as the story actually is finished, because Smaug is killed, they were also killed.
6.

I liked the book, because this book is very good written. It is not quite difficult to read, so you understand what there stood. The book is quite long for what happens in the book, so everything is very good explained. I like that in a book. The book is also very exciting, because there is a lot of action. Actually there is the whole time action and I liked that. So this book is really a book for my and I’m happy that I have read it.