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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pages 112-124
After
our adventurers wake up from their night of feast, the eagles kindly take them
down off of the mountains so that they may continue their adventure. Once they get off the eagles and are ready to
once again begin their adventure, Gandalf announces that he will not be
continuing on the adventure for much longer.
All the dwarves (and Bilbo, who I wish to remind you is a hobbit) become
worried when they hear this because they would have never gotten this far
without him. Gandalf then takes them to
someone’s house who he knows of, but this man, named Beorn, is not familiar
with Gandalf. Still, Beorn eventually
welcomes them all in and offers them dinner.
“Indeed
we are now a good deal further east than I ever meant to come with you, for
after all, this is not my adventure. I
may look into it again before it is all over, but in the meanwhile, I have
other pressing business to attend to.”
When Gandalf says this, you can practically feel the dwarves get
nervous. Without him, they surely would
have never gotten this far. While he
still hasn’t left at the end of this section, one can only wonder how the
dwarves will fare without Gandalf guiding them through the many dangers of this
adventure.
As
I have been reading this book, it has started to remind me to the Percy Jackson
series. Much like the Percy Jackson
series, this book has many different kinds of warriors, and the different kinds
of warriors between the two books are very similar. For example, they both have warriors who use
traditional swords and shields, and they both have people who are able to use
elemental-type abilities. Also, in both
books they fight various kinds of creatures. In The Hobbit they fight trolls and
goblins, and in Percy Jackson they fight minotaurs and cyclopses. I find it interesting how books then and now
can be so much alike.
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