Forgiveness In The Hobbit

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J.R.R. Tolkien once said “Not all those that wander are lost.” (The Riddle of Strider). Some people may understand wandering as a loss of direction, or meaning; whereas others see that those who wander may have a purpose. While in the act of wandering, people can learn many lessons including how to forgive the ones they have wronged, how important family and friends are, that riches and wealth aren’t the most important aspects of life, and to never forget where they came from. Forgiveness is when someone has a change of attitude towards an offense and lets go of the negative emotions while wishing their offender the best in life. During the dwarves and Bilbo’s wandering Middle Earth in The Hobbit,

It is a connection between two or more people that have total trust and faith in each other. They always stand beside one another in their time of need, and they never give up without a fierce fight. Pip and Herbert create a special bond together as Pip is learning to become a gentleman and while Herbert is trying to find his footing in a commercial life. Pip is willing to do everything he possibly can to help his best friend get the job of his dreams. Although Pip is in debt, with what limited money he does have he gives to Wemmick in order for Pip to fulfill his “desirous to serve a friend.” (Dickens 199). Pip informs Wemmick that he “wants somehow to help [Herbert] to a beginning.” (Dickens 199). Even though Pip is helping Herbert achieve his ambitions in life, he doesn’t inform Herbert that he is assisting him. Pip lets Herbert believe that his window of opportunity has finally opened all by itself when in fact Pip opened the window for him. It is the uncertainty of the outcome that keeps Pip from being candor to his friend, Herbert about his occupation. The Baxter family in Coming Home has always looked to God and each other for comfort and security. Each member of the Baxter family has faced numerous obstacles that have blocked their paths, but they never gave up. “They’d had their days of sorrow certainly. Maybe more than most families. But even then God made them closer, stronger. And always their father

No matter how far someone wanders from home, they will always remember where they came from and find their way back there. When Pip was seven years old, he loved everything about his life, that is until he met Estella and Miss Havisham. They came from a higher social class and made Pip realize just how little he knew about the world and social classes. When he was given the opportunity to leave his childhood home and move to London to become a gentleman he jumps at the opportunity to change himself to prove to Estella that he is worthy of her. Pip wandered around London for numerous years lost and unhappy with how his life turned out. After he goes bankrupt, gets severely ill, and finds out his recently revealed benefactor has died, Pip finds his way back home to the marshes where he first found his benefactor, the convict and to the forge where Joe works. While Pip leaves his home voluntarily, the dwarves in The Hobbit were forced out of their lands by the dragon Smaug also known as the “Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities” (Tolkien 220). The dwarves never forgive and they never forget what happened to their lands and their people. Thorin Oakinshield with the assistance of Gandalf the gray and his thirteen companions travel Middle Earth to Erebor to reclaim their homeland. In the midst of their travels, the company faces copious difficulties that were meant to stop them in their tracks, but the company never gave up hope and kept their sight