J.R. Tolkien

Unlike many of my peers that read The Hobbit in high school, I have not. Honestly, I've heard the book title a million times, but rarely heard anything about it. I also didn't know that Tolkien wrote the original Lord of the Rings as the sequel to The Hobbit. He was quite a man! This website I found said that he "created languages and socio-cultural contexts for these languages to develop. He based much of his myth-making on Christian, Celtic and Germanic sources to create his own internally consistent and contained cosmology. It was a process which took Tolkien twenty years." That had to take the man some brains...to create languages out of thin air.

Before reading this book, I have made some predictions about what I think it will be like. First, I think it will be darker than anything else we have read. Basing this judgment from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogies, I much would have prefered if they were 'lighter'. Second, the "Hobbit" in the story reminds me of something we have read before...the Goblins!! From "The Princess and the Goblin" by MacDonald, the hobbit just sounds like it is from a dark and evil place! Also, there has got to be some sort of quest or overcoming good to battle the evil...hence, humans that defeat the Hobbit. Thats all I got...but we'll see if any of these predictions come true when I start reading the book on MOnday!!