Tolkien's "The Hobbit" for my first book report. ... A hobbit is a hairy, fat man about half our size, and this particular one lived in a comfortable hobbit hole in a quiet community where adventures were unspoken of. ... This story is packed full of surprise, suspense, mystery, conflict, dilemma, and foreshadowing throughout the chapters. ... "The Hobbit" is full of grand adventures and suspenseful action. ... Overall it is a great story that will keep you glued to every page....

• Word Count: 505
• Approx Pages: 2
• 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...

• Word Count: 1879
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Lord of the Rings Chapter by Chapter Summery The Departure of Boromir The camp is attacked by a band of Orcs and Boromir is killed. ... Later, they find Hobbit footprints and a broach clues that their captured friends have passed this way. ... He takes the Hobbits to an ent house and gives them drink and shelter. He knows Gandalf and asks the Hobbits for news of the outside world. ... The next day Treebeard takes the Hobbits to a meeting of ents at entmoot. ...

• Word Count: 4146
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School