In a world not like our own where goblins steal, good elves sing, dwarves fulfill their lives with adventure and hobbits live their average boring lives that frankly they love. the most feared creature begins with a D and ends with an N.Dragons. They feed on their own greed by taking what is not theirs and killing whoever gets in their way.They live a life of immortality unless killed by a fatal force like a stab wound to the heart. A certain dragon named Smaug stole all of the treasure from the dwarf kingdom of Erebor about 150 years ago. In, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien,Thorin, the descendent of Erebor, decides to start a journey to take back what is rightfully his with the help of thirteen dwarves, a wizard, a hobbit and few helpful creatures …show more content…
Elrond gives the dwarves a place to stay, provisions for their journey, and sings beautiful songs making him one of the good characters. Elrond tells the dwarves about their swords and when they made and for what they were made for. Elrond gives a remark explaining how dangerous their journey will become,trying to warn them. Elrond remarked “... They must have come from a dragon’s hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many years ago…” (52.)The dwarves go on with their adventure despite the warning from one of the good characters Elrond. Furthermore, Bilbo steals Thorin’s most prized possession, the arkenstone, and gives it to Bard. Instead of trying to figure out a different way to find peace with Bard, Bilbo bargains it off like it is nothing. Bilbo informs Bard “This is the Arkenstone of Thrain. The Heart of the Mountain; and it is also the heart of Thorin. He values it above the river of gold. I give it to you. It will aid you in your bargaining,” (272.) Thorin is also apart of the greed mentioned in this story. Death results from his greed. Thorin is so attached to his lost treasure that he puts the people that accompanied him through all kinds of danger. Before Thorin’s death he realizes the mistakes he made and says “There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure.If more of us valued food and cheer …show more content…
when the Goblins capture the dwarves Bilbo get left behind with Gollum. “Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum- as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face,” (71.) He was a creature that even the goblins were fearful of because he ate whatever was in his distance. They also ran into spiders. “The nastiest things the saw were cobwebs: dark dense cobwebs with threads extraordinarily thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them,” (140.) Little do they know that the spiders would end up capturing them except for bilbo. Sadly, the worst danger of all begins during the battle of the five armies. they lose the lives of people fairly close to them. “... and poor old Bombur, and Balin and fili and kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves,”