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The Hobbit Good And Evil Essay

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In J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit there are many characters that have both a good and evil side which shows those character's true intentions. My first character to explain their intentions has to be Thorin Oakenshield. My reasoning behind Thorin being a good and evil character has to be from where at first he comes out to be a hero that just wants his kingdom back but we soon after find out why his kingdom was lost in the first place. Thorin’s father Thrain had mined precious ore from his palace and one of his men eventually discovered the Arkenstone. The Arkenstone had corrupted Thrain to become a greedy dwarf who had no intention to help anyone. Thrain was majorly obsessed with his jewels and treasure. The time came that Thrain needed …show more content…

Unlike his father Thorin actually gives some of his treasure away to help pay for what his father did. My next character is our main hero Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo is a simple hobbit who decides he wants to go on an adventure with dwarves to take back a fallen kingdom. Bilbo eventually finds the creature Gollum in a cave looking for his precious (The ring). Within the cave Bilbo ends up finding Gollum's ring and puts it on his finger to find out that it makes him completely invisible. When Bilbo meets up with the dwarves he keeps the ring hidden because he doesn’t want any of them to find out that he has it or to take his ring from him. This makes Bilbo a hero because he uses the ring to save the dwarves many times and it makes him evil because the ring corrupts him and makes him hide the ring so nobody will take it. My final character will be Smaug. Smaug is seen by many as a great evil and I can see why simply because he took a kingdom and killed lots of innocent people in the time that he did it. I would classify Smaug to have a good side because dragons are attracted to gold and that is what the mountain was full of. So in Smaug’s eyes he was taking what was his to take out of a primal

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