The Hobbit: The start, week one

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. When starting the Hobbit the very first page explains what a Hobbit is. A Hobbit is a little people, kind of like a dwarf but smaller. It goes on to say how a Hobbit acts, behaves, and is inclined to look. Next it tells where a Hobbit lives, The Shire. This is where the story of Bilbo Baggins starts.

 Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party

The beginning of the story starts off in a Hobbit hole in a place called The Shire. The Shire is a piece of land in between the River Brandywine and the Far Downs. A Hobbit hole is a hole made in the side of a hill. This is where the main character, Bilbo Baggins, lives. As he is sitting in the front of his house he greets Gandalf the wizard and wishes him a good day. The conversation goes on until Bilbo invites Gandalf to tea the next day. The next day just as Bilbo is about to sit down for dinner there is a knock at the door and when he answers it there is a dwarf standing there. Bilbo invites him in for tea, but before he can serve it there is another knock at the door. Soon more dwarves come into his house and he is overwhelmed with there company. Eventually Gandalf does show up, with some more dwarves, and Bilbo is at his wits end. That is where I am at the moment.

So far I think the book is really entertaining, mostly because of Gandalf and his plans and how he words things. I kind of wish there was less third person view, but I think I will get used to it later on. I don’t think I will ever remember the names of the dwarves, they all sound really similar. I like all of the detail that Tolkien puts into the story, there is even a couple of maps in the beginning so that you can track where they are going. It also makes the story seem just a little more real.