Tolkien's, "The Hobbit." ... In just the first chapter of this novel, "Unexpected Party,"" there is an almost overwhelming amount of discussion of food. ... Throughout the first several chapters, there are constant references to Bilbo's empty stomach as well as his missed meals and this begins to break him down. ... In the second to last chapter of this novel, just before Thorin dies, he speaks these words to Bilbo. ... Food clearly played an extremely important role in every hobbits life, but in Bilbos case, his weaning desire for his next meal throughout this novel was a reflecti...

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• Grade Level: High School

Against the feuding authors wishes in 1954 HarperCollins released The Fellowship of the Ring,(Grotta 113) the second chapter in the lives of his extravagantly esteemed inhabitants of the middle-earth. ... (Grotta 114) The Guardian hailed Tolkien as a "born story teller",(Grotta 114) and the New Statesman and Nation called it "a story magnificently told with every kind of color, movement and greatness." ... An unlikely sort who had been an out cast among fellow Hobbits do to the shenanigans of his cousin Bilbo, for hobbits were short hairy little creatures that had simple desires and led sim...

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• Grade Level: High School