The Hobbit Source Olsen Corey Exploring JRR Tolkiens The Hobbit New York Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012 Print John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 18921973 Professor of AngloSaxon at the University of Oxford ID: 307359
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Slide1
Introduction
The Hobbit
Source:
Olsen, Corey.
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
. New York: Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2012. Print.Slide2
John Ronald
Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford
The Inklings
An informal literary discussion groupTolkien regularly met with a group of scholars and writers at The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford
J.R.R. TolkienSlide3
One day when he was grading papers, he noticed that a student left a page of the answer book blank.
On a whim, he wrote on that page, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
“.
He decided that he needed to find out what a Hobbit was, what sort of a hole it lived in, why it lived in a hole, etc. This grew into a tale that he told to his younger children.
Beginnings…Slide4
Published in England in 1937 as a children’s book
Revised Second Edition published in 1951What began as a sequel, expanded
into The Lord of the RingsThe
Fellowship of the Ring was published in 1954
Not a children’s bookLegendariumTolkien’s entire collection of connected
fantasy works
The HobbitSlide5
Hobbits
DwarvesElves
Goblins (
orcs)Men
Who’s Who in Middle-earth?
Trolls
Eagles
Dragons
(
Smaug
is pronounced with “
ow
” like how)
Wizards
(
Gandalf is pronounced with “al” like pal)Slide6
“If, when we look at Bilbo and his magic ring in The Hobbit
, we are constantly thinking about Frodo and Mount Doom, we will not really be paying attention to the ideas that this
story is interested in” (Olsen 14).
People, Places, & Things Bilbo’s ring NOT the Ring of Power (not capitalized)Lonely Mountain NOT
EreborThe Necromancer NOT Sauron
(The Shire)Our focus…Slide7
Themes (yellow highlighter)
Habitation & Belonging (Bilbo, Elrond, Beorn)
Providence & Luck
Wealth & Greed (gold, dragons)Motifs (pink highlighter)
Lineage (Took vs. Baggins, Thorin, Bard)
Nature (Mirkwood)Characters (underline)
Gandalf as Story-Maker
Bilbo – Hero’s Journey
(Separation, Initiation, Return)
Thorin
Annotations & IndexSlide8
Read & Annotate Chapters 1-2
Memorize the names of all 13 dwarvesTuesday: Reading Quiz #1
Homework