The Hobbit Research Paper

J.R.R Tolkien and The Hobbit

J.R.R Tolkien author of The Hobbit, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, to English parents on January 3, 1892. At age three Tolkien and his brother were brought back to England. His father died shortly after in South Africa so they just stayed in England. At age twelve his mother died and him and his brother Hilary went from living with a priest, aunts, and boarding homes. He had a journal explain his rough childhood and what struggles he faced. Yet things started to look up for Tolkien going into High School. At age sixteen he met the love of his life Edith Bratt, but weren't aloud to see each other until age twenty one. He went to King Edward School in 1910 and 1911 and excelled in classical languages and

One week later,they got engaged. March 22, 1916 they got married in Warwick, United Kingdom. After that J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt were happy married for fifty five years with three sons and one daughter. Tolkien was and is still seen as a very romantic man, he would constantly write love poems to his wife. When he would send letters to his friends it would always be positive beautiful things about Edith. His most famous tribute to her is Beren and Luthien the love story mixed with Middle Earth. He has multiple famous love poem, and is why he is such a known romantic. Edith died November 29, 1972, just one year before J.R.R. Tolkien dies on September 2, 1973. For his final tribute of love he gets buried right next to Edith and gets his name of the same gravestone. In his lifetime he wrote thirty one books. The Lord of the Rings the series made one hundred fifty million dollars in 1955; The Hobbit made one hundred forty and six million in 1937. Before the book, The Silmarillion was finished Tolkien had passed away and his son Christopher gathered old material from his father to finish the book and complete it. This meant he was making completely new material to fix gaps and inconsistencies in the

He liked the idea of a random person becoming a hero and the fact that anything can happen. He told so many different things about christianity all hard to tell unless you understand or know something about catholic religion. Tolkien saw stories as a reflection of the truth, and felt like his story needed to be told through Middle Earth. Following Jesus Christ's example he taught many important lessons in the form of parables. The Hobbit introduces unexplained phenomena without spelling out the spiritual significance, disarming many who have an aversion to all things religious.Smeagol's many colors’ signify relativism, a belief that there is no unified goodness and that the unity of objective truth, which can be broken and fragmented into a multitude of differing opinions. The Gollum, Smeagol was completely obsessed with the cursed ring, he even tried killing Bilbo because Smeagol has dragon sickness. Bilbo by the end of the quest learn that money/gold isn’t everything which was really a hidden idea the whole