12/9/12
The Hobbit by J.R.R.
Tolkien
Pages 125-139
This section starts out with our group of adventurers
eating dinner with Beorn. Afterwards
Beorn leaves to take a look outside and the dwarves go to sleep. When they awaken, Beorn is gone and now so is
Gandalf. Around supper time Gandalf returns
and tells the dwarves that he was tracking bear prints. The next morning Beorn returns and tells them
that he was checking to make sure that their story was true. Beorn gives the dwarves traveling advice and
soon after lunch they leave, back to their adventure with refurnished supplies.
As they reached the edge of Mirkwood (a forest), Gandalf leaves the dwarves,
causing a large worry among them.
“I am not sending the horse back, I am riding it back!”
When Gandalf says this, it is easy to tell that the journey is about to get a
lot harder for the dwarves. Gandalf has
been the dwarves’ everything. He was
their connection to hospitality, the one who saved them from the goblins, and
the one who saved them from the trolls. One
can only imagine how they will manage getting through the forest without Gandalf. Also, if his doesn’t come back by the time
the dwarves get to the dragon, they are in for a big fight. It will be quite
interesting to see how the story progresses from here, we will see if Bilbo is
finally ready to toughen up or not.
As I stated before, the dwarves are very worried of their
current situation because they now must journey fourth without Gandalf. This reminds me of when Bret Favre left the Packers. All the fans were upset and worried that the
Packers would start to do worse as a team.
Not long after Favre left, Aaron Rodgers started to prove himself as a
quarterback and break many of Favre’s records.
The Packers were ready to move on without Favre, and now the dwarves
need to be ready to move on without Gandalf.
It’s time for Bilbo to become the dwarves’ Aaron Rodgers.
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