Bilbo and the Ring (Gollum's Preciousss)

[frodolives21]

Hi!!
i'm reading the hobbit for my literature class. i just finished the part where bilbo uses Gollum's preciousss( the ring) to escape and then surprises the dwarves. one of my favorite parts!!!!:)
please, tell me what your favorite part of the hobbit is!!;)

frodolives21

[Midge]

My guess is that this probably belongs in the "The Hobbit" thread.. forum.. thingy. But I'll answer it here.

I always like reading about the respites. My favorite one is when Gandalf is telling Beorn this long story to get him to be okay with so many dwarves at his door. It's kind of funny because that's what Gandalf does to Bilbo at the very beginning also! One or two dwarves at a time.. nice and easy does the trick. :D

[Earniel]

Moved to the Hobbit-forum.

Welcome to the Entmoot, frodolives21. :)

[barrelrider110]

I like the dialogue of the Trolls - Bert, Tom and Bill (William) Huggins.
"What's a bur- a- hobbit?"
It still makes me laugh out loud! :D

[Varnafindë]

Yes, there are some really funny scenes in there!

A beautiful - and very sad - scene is the one where Bilbo says goodbye to Thorin Oakenshield when he's dying. Thorin takes back all harsh words and wants them to part in peace. I find it very moving.

[Mark of Cenla]

Yes, there are some really funny scenes in there!

A beautiful - and very sad - scene is the one where Bilbo says goodbye to Thorin Oakenshield when he's dying. Thorin takes back all harsh words and wants them to part in peace. I find it very moving.

I concur!

[barrelrider110]

;)Welcome, Mark of Cenla
Elen sÃ*la lúmenn' omentielvo

I also like one of the very last lines of the book on a number of levels...

Gandalf: "You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!";)

[Alcuin]

;)Welcome, Mark of Cenla
Elen sÃ*la lúmenn' omentielvo

I also like one of the very last lines of the book on a number of levels...

Gandalf: "You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!";)
Compare that to an incident Tolkien recounted in Letter 328 to a young woman who wrote him in the summer of 1971.


A few years ago I was visited in Oxford by a man whose name I have forgotten... He had been much struck by the curious way in which many old pictures seemed to him to have been designed to illustrate The Lord of the Rings long before its time. … When it became obvious that, unless I was a liar, I had never seen the pictures before …, he fell silent. Suddenly he said, “Of course you don’t suppose, do you, that you wrote all that book yourself?�

Pure Gandalf! I was too well acquainted with G. to expose myself rashly, or to ask what he meant. I think I said: “No, I don’t suppose so any longer.� I have never since been able to suppose so. … But not one that should puff any one up who considers the imperfections of “chosen instruments�, and indeed what sometimes seems their lamentable unfitness for the purpose.

[AndMorgothCame.]

The steady dialogue between Smaug and Bilbo is a classic in all of literature, for me, and also the famous chapter, Riddles in the Dark, is fantastic.

Tolkien has a Hitchcockian way of building suspense and intensity while staying so subtle!

[Torongil]

I love the troll scene!

[AndMorgothCame.]

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