Reading Aid: The Hobbit
Hey everyone! So in this Blog post, I will be making a Reading Aid for The Hobbit. This is my first time reading this book and I thought it might be helpful for some people, if I did little reviews and overviews of each chapter, as well as looking at the characters themselves everyday. So keep checking everyday for a new update about chapters in this Reading Aid post!
Here is the book link, so you can read each chapter before you read this! The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
Please note, this is to help readers know the storyline even better. Not to substitute the book in anyway!! Please read the chapter in the book before reading one of the Reading Aid chapters!!!!
The Hobbit Reading Aid
Chapter One: An Unexpected Party
So in the very beginning of The Hobbit, you meet Bilbo Baggins. A hobbit, who lives in his hobbit hole and loves to eat! Bilbo, one day, has an unexpected visitor. A wizard, named Gandalf, who has known the Baggins family for sometime. Bilbo tells Gandalf to come back tomorrow, for tea. Then the next day, with him comes a bunch of dwarves, lead by Thorin, their leader. They tell Bilbo of a plan they have, with Bilbo at its center. They want to go to the Mountain, guarded by Smaug, the dragon. Bilbo is completely stunned, and just makes them dinner and lets them stay over for the night...
Chapter Characters:
Bilbo: a hobbit, a creature that lives in a hobbit hole in the ground, has hairy feet, is very short, and loves to eat food. Gandalf: a wizard, with a long beard and a friend of the Baggins family. Dwarves: a small creature, like a hobbit, but bigger with great hoods of different colors. Thorin: the enormously important dwarf, leader, the great Thorin Oakenshield himself.
I really liked how this book jumps right into the story, there aren't any "sunshine and rainbows" so to speak. As you can see, it literally started out with: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. I like Bilbo's character, he is very timid and kind as you will see in further chapters.
Come back for another reading aid chapter tomorrow!
Chapter Two: Roast Mutton
In chapter two, Gandalf, Thorin, Bilbo and the dwarves set out early in the morning. They get some little ponies and start without breakfast! The come on their way to a red light shining through the woods. They go to the light and find out that it is trolls! The trolls are eating and capture the dwarves and Bilbo as Gandalf escapes. As the trolls are trying to find out what to do to the dwarves and this creature they never saw before (Bilbo), the sun started rising. Trolls will turn to stone if they stay out in the sun, so Gandalf returns and makes the trolls quarrel for a while and then they turn to stone once the sun had risen. The dwarves and Bilbo go into the trolls hut and find sword perfect for them.
In this chapter you can start to see a little of Gandalf's personality, he leaves and then returns to save the day! And he does this a lot.
New Chapter Characters:
Trolls: a creature that turns to stone when the sun comes out and eat pretty much everything.
Chapter Three: A Short Rest
In this chapter, all of the dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf simply take a rest and tell stories. And they tell more about the mission they have set in place, and Bilbo becomes more afraid, but they have to stop because they say that the hills and the trees have ears.
This is probably one of the shortest chapters in the book. Which is nice to have, because they are very long normally. It's cool to see them all building relationship through out the book also.
Chapter Four: Over Hill and under Hill
Bilbo and the dwarves continue on the journey, and they are starting to get tired after a while. So they send out two dwarves to find shelter. The two dwarves come back and say that they have found a cave. Gandalf seems hesitant, because he knows that all the caves in the area are most always in habitat. But everyone was so wanting to get to shelter, so they went. They get to the cave and go to sleep. When Bilbo wakes up, Goblins had entered the cave and were taking him and the dwarves through to the other side of the cave. Gandalf was able to escape with his wand. When the Goblins set them down they are in front of the master Goblin. Goblins are ruthless, and the master Goblin tells the others to torture them! But then the light go out and a voice bings them to safety. It's Gandalf, of course. The Goblins were gaining on them and then Bilbo falls, hits his head and is knocked out...
New Chapter Characters
Goblins: creatures that torture anything with out hesitation. And are ruthless.
Chapter Five: Riddles In The Dark
When Bilbo wakes up, it is pitch black, and he feels around. On the ground, he feels a cold, small pice of metal that he puts in his pocket. He keeps feeling around, then he feels water, an underground lake. As Bilbo is looking around, the author tells us of a creature that lives in the water. Gollum, who has a boat that he padded out into the water, so he can uses his long fingers to snatch up the fish with. Gollum, at the moment, was fishing when Bilbo can over. Gollum saw Bilbo and started to paddle over. Bilbo looked up from the ground and saw pale white eyes in the dark and asked who was there. Gollum, who talks though himself, as you can see in your book, say that he wants to tell each other riddles. Bilbo says that he would if Gollum could show him the way out of this place if he won. So they tell each other riddles, until it was Bilbos turn. He feels in his pocket and finds the pice of metal again. He asked himself what was in his pocket? Gollum hears him and thinks Bilbo's telling a riddle and can't think of what would be in Bilbo's pocket. Then Bilbo says that he won! So, Gollum gets angry, and his eyes start turning green, and he tries to find something of his in his den, before they go out. When Gollum can't find his "birthday present" as he calls it, he chases Bilbo until Bilbo feels in his pocket againand find that it is a ring. He puts it on his finger and he turns invisible! Gullom goes right past him. Then Gollum knows that Bilbo has the ring, his birthday present! So he tries to go find it, so Bilbo follows him, hoping he will take him to the exit without realizing. When Gollum does, Bilbo escapes. Only to find himself in a den of more Goblins! But he uses the ring and escapes again, out into the daylight.
New Characters:
Gollum: a creature with pale large pale eyes, that turn green when he is angry. He has long fingers that he uses to fish with. Talks to him self and is kind of creepy!
What do think of Gollum?! He's a pretty strange and creepy!
This was a very long chapter! Another reminder, please read the the chapter in the book first before reading this reading aid one! You get so much more out of the story, I was reading this reading aid over and was just realizing that if you just read this and not the book, you would be missing out on so much! Even though this is long.
Come back again tomorrow (after you read the chapter in the book!) for another reading aid chapter!