The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien

Hobbit Hole Perfectly round green door Brass handle in middle Long hallways like tunnels Lots of pegs for coats and hats One floor Carpet and tile Big closet for lots of clothes

Hobbit Hole and Bilbo

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

A Real Hobbit Hole?

A Real Hobbit Hole?

Gandalf

"All the unsuspecting Bilbo saw that morning was an old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which a white beard hung down below his waist, and immense black boots."

Dwarves

Thorin Balin Dwalin Kili and Fili Dori, Nori, Ori Oin and Gloin Bifur and Bofur Bombur

Ancient Song of Dwarves Far over the Misty Mountain Cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away at break of day To seek the pale, enchanted gold

Ancient Song of Dwarves Of ancient king and elvish lord There many a gleaming, golden hoard They shaped and wrought and light they caught To hide in gems on hilt of sword

Ancient Song of Dwarves The bells were ringing in the dale And men looked up with faces pale The dragon's ire more fierce than fire Laid low the towers and houses frail

Ancient Song of Dwarves The Mountain smoked beneath the moon; The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom. They fled their hall to dying fall Beneath his feet, beneath the moon

Ancient Song of Dwarves Far over the misty mountains grim To dungeons deep and caverns dim We must away, ere break of day, To win our harps and gold from him.

What do the dwarves want? To reclaim their treasure stolen by the dragon, Smaug A 14th traveler

Thorin’s Great Grandfather was Thrain. He tunneled and mined Lonely Mt. He built great workshops. He found gold and jewels. He became “King Under the Mountain”

The Men of Dale Built a city below the mountain Men would send for the dwarves as goldsmiths. Men would pay and reward the skilled dwarves. A dragon, Smaug, came and took all gold and killed the dwarves except for Thror (Thorin’s father) and a few others.

What is the plan? A map and a secret entrance A silver key Seek revenge on dragon Take back treasure

Trolls

"William never spoke for he stood turned to stone as he stooped; and Bert and Tom were stuck like rocks as they looked at him. And there they stand to this day, all alone, unless the birds perch on them; for trolls, as you probably know, must be underground before dawn, or they go back to the stuff of the mountains they are made of, and never move again. This is what had happened to Bert and Tom and William."     

Elf Elrond

"'Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them "'Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them.' said Elrond, 'not when you look straight at them. They can only be seen when the moon shines behind them, and what is more, with the most cunning sort it must be a moon of the same shape and season as the day when they were written. The dwarves invented them and wrote them with silver pens, as your friends could tell you. These must have been written on a midsummer's eve in a crescent moon, a long while ago.'

Goblin Attack

"Out jumped the goblins, big goblins, great ugly-looking goblins, lots of goblins, before you can say rocks and blocks. There were six to each dwarf, at least, and two even for Bilbo;and they were all grabbed and carried through the crack, before you can say tinder and flint. But not Gandalf. Bilbo's yell had done that much good. It had wakened him up wide in a splintered second, and when goblins came to grab him, there was a terrible flash like lightning in the cave, a smell like gunpowder, and several of them fell dead."

Gollum

'Bless us and splash us, my precioussss 'Bless us and splash us, my precioussss! I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, Gollum!' And when he said Gollum he made a horrible swallowing noise in his throat. That is how he got his name, though he always called himself 'my precious.'"

The Ring

"His head was in a whirl of hope and wonder. It seemed that the ring he had was a magic ring: it made you invisible! He had heard of such things, of course, in old old tales; but it was hard to believe that he really had found one, by accident. Still there it was: Gollum with his bright eyes had passed him by, only a yard to one side."

The Wargs

"The Wargs and the goblins often helped one another in wicked deeds. Goblins do not usually venture very far from their mountains, unless they are driven out and are looking for new homes, or are marching to war. But in those days they sometimes used to go on raids, especially to get food or slaves to work for them. Then they got the Wargs to help and shared the plunder with them. Sometimes they rode on wolves like men do on horses."

The Rescue

"The wolves yammered and gnashed their teeth; the goblins yelled and stamped with rage, and flung their heavy spears in the air in vain. Over them swooped the eagles; the dark rush of their beating wings smote them to the floor or drove them far away; their talons tore at goblin faces. Other birds flew to the tree-tops and seized the dwarves, who were scrambling up now as far as ever they dared to go.

Lord of the Eagles

Mirkwood Forest

Attack of Spiders

"The spider evidently was not used to things that carried such stings at their sides,or it would have hurried away quicker. Bilbo came at it before it could disappear and struck it with his sword right in the eyes. Then it went mad and leaped and danced and flung out his legs in horrible jerks, until he killed it with another stroke; and then he fell down and remembered nothing more for a long while."

Sting

"Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as hewiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. 'I will give you a name,' he said to it, 'and I shall call you Sting.'"

A Hero is Needed!

"With that one of the fat spiders ran along a rope, till it came to a dozen bundles hanging in a row from a high branch. Bilbo was horrified, now that he noticed them for the first time dangling in the shadows, to see a dwarvish foot sticking out of the bottoms of some of the bundles, or here and there the tip of a nose, or a bit of beard or of a hood."

Wood Elves

"Such day as there ever was in the forest was fading once more into the blackness of night, when suddenly out sprang the light of many torches all round them, like hundreds of red stars. Out leaped Wood-elves with their bows and spears and called the dwarves to halt."

A Barrel Rider

"When the barrels were empty the elves cast them through the trapdoors, opened the water-gate, and out the barrels floated on the stream, bobbing along, until they were carried by the current to a place far down the river where the bank jutted out, near to the very eastern edge of Mirkwood. There they were collected and tied together and floated to Lake-town, which stood close to the point where the Forest River flowed into the Long Lake."

Laketown

"Not far from the mouth of the Forest River was the strange town he had heard the elves speak of in the king's cellars. It was not built on the shore, though there were a few huts and buildings there, but right out on the surface of the lake, protected from the swirl of the entering river by a promontory of rock which formed a calm bay. A great bridge made of wood ran out to where on huge piles made of forest trees was built a busy wooden town, not a town of elves but of Men, who still dared to dwell here under the shadow of the distant dragon-mountain."

Bard

Secret Door

Then Thorin stepped up and drew the key on its chain from round his neck. He put it to the hole. It fitted and it turned! Snap! The gleam went out, the sun sank, the moon was gone, and the evening sprang into the sky. Now they all pushed together, and slowly a part of the rock-wall gave way. Long straight cracks appeared and widened. A door five feet high and three broad was outlined, and slowly without a sound swung inwards. It seemed as if darkness flowed out like a vapour from the hole in the mountain-side, and deep darkness in which nothing could be seen lay before their eyes, a yawning mouth leading in and down.

Smaug and his lair

"There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; a thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light."

Bilbo tricks Smaug

The dragon rolled over. 'Look!' he said, 'What do you say to that?' 'Dazzlingly marvellous! Perfect! Flawless! Staggering!' exclaimed Bilbo aloud, but what he thought inside was: 'Old fool! Why there is a large patch in the hollow of his left breast as bare as a snail out of its shell!'"