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The Hobbit Movie Vs Book

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Riddles of DEATH In a battle of a riddle game who do you think would win Gollum the king of riddles or Bilbo a short little hobbit who has no idea of what a riddle is. The book is called “The Hobbit” written by J.R.R Tolkien and the director of the movie Peter Jackson. In the book there is a short little hobbit named Bilbo who leaves in a small hobbit hole all by himself. At of nowhere a wizard named Gandalf comes by and starts to talk to Bilbo about some weird journey he is taking and wants Bilbo to come along with him and some dwarves.Bilbo says yes thinking it was going to be fun but turns out to be a scary ride and some things he has to put his life on the line. In the movie by Peter Jackson there were some changes like when Bilbo meets Gollum he is scared because Gollum has to personalities to him and when Bilbo finds the ring Gollum had. These are effective because it changes the scener. It also changes how we see each of the characters personal life because in the book it tells what a hobbit is but in the movie it shows us what they do, how they act with each other. In the movie Gollum has one personalities but in the book Gollum would have two personalities. In the movie when Bilbo first meets Gollum he is crazy when he is by himself,but in the book he is not crazy he is calm all by himself. He is …show more content…

Bilbo is guilty in the movie but in the book he is innocent. ”He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor”(Tolkien 68). When Bilbo finds the ring in the book it's by accident because he couldn't see in the dark but in the movie Bilbo sees Gollum drop the ring and when Gollum leaves Bilbo picks up the ring and puts it in his pocket and goes and try to find Gollum. This just proves that Bilbo is just a thief from when he was born he takes things that might seem cool or fun to

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Even though this part of the hero’s journey was portrayed pretty similarly, there is still a bit of a difference. They both used their instincts, but Bilbo was influenced a bit by the dwarves. His Took side had shown while the dwarves were contemplating whether he was fit for the adventure or not. This made him want to prove himself to them. Instincts aren’t normally the cause of the call to adventure, but for some reason, these two very different novels are similar this way.

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Tolkien uses Bilbo as a character who is not so easily corrupted by greed and is thus, able to carry the journey forward. Because of this virtue, Bilbo is able to see reason and make decisions that will benefit the greater good and stop useless violence. Even though this is not his home, Bilbo feels a sense of duty and risks his life to help the Dwarves. Unlike Odysseus, Bilbo is an unlikely hero who only sets out on the journey after being persuaded by Gandalf, a wizard. Bilbo relies mostly on his luck and on Gandalf to be saved.

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By the end Bilbo is much more comfortable taking risks. He makes his own plans (helping the dwarfs escape the wood elf 's dungeon) and is talking a dangerous creature (Gollum and

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Everything his normal hobbit life stood for was juristically changed. Joseph Campbell’s hero pattern disrupted Bilbo’s normal attitude and what not and made him into a hero. He refused his call to adventure, yet of course he ended up going on the adventure in spite. He was an aid to Gandalf defeating the trolls, crossing of the first threshold. Yet at the end of this adventure he didn’t even want his reward he would rather go home under the hill, magic flight back to his original world.

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As he tries to find his way out, he ran into an unusual creature named Gollum who challenges him to a riddle game, and if Gollum wins the game, he has the privilege to eat Bilbo, but if Bilbo wins then Gollum has to show Bilbo the way out. Gollum decides to try and kill Bilbo by using a magic ring that will make him invisible, but little did he know that Bilbo actually has the ring thanks to luck. In 2012, Peter Jackson remade this chapter, making many changes, into a scene in the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Two major changes that were made in the movie was the way Gollum was portrayed (making him more relatable), and the way Bilbo escaped the from the goblin's cave. The book uses suspenseful tones and moods to keep the readers

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