READERS EXPO 2015

THE HOBBIT

• Made by J.R.R. Tolkein.
• Only book in the series.
• Fantasy genre. All external conflicts.
• The characters go on a journey to complete a goal.
• Bilbo and the dwarves go on a journey to get Thorin's home and loot back.

MR. BILBO BAGGINS

• Main character in the hobbit.
• Does change through the story.
• Has only external.
• Goes on an epic journey to get gold from a dragons den.
• The protagonist of the story. Static character.

GANDALF

• Protagonist. Static character.
• Helps Bilbo and the dwarves through their jouney.
• Stays relatively the same throught the story.
• Has many external conflicts, man vs man, man vs nature.

THE DWARVES

• They are the ones who bring Bilbo along on the journey.
• Their leader is Thorin. The dwarves are all protagonists.
• There are 11 dwarves. All protagonists and static characters.
• They are off to get back the Arkenstone, the most precious thing to Thorin.
• Only problem is, the Arkenstone lay in Smaug's loot pile. And to take back his home.

SMAUG

• The dragon that took over Thorin's home.
• Likes riddles.
• For laying on his loot for so long it has made his belly have gold plating!
• A very large antagonist.
• Dynamic character. Changes from nice and listening to riddles to destroying an entire town!

HOW THE AUTHOR KEEPS YOU INTERESTED

• Lots of action, and new characters are shown very often.
• Lots of different conflicts internal, and external.
• Man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. nature.
• Point of beiw changes from chracter to characters.

GOLLUM

• Antagonist. Dynamic, first listening to riddles one time then trying to kill bilbo the other.
• Not a very big part of the story but Bilbo got the ring from him.
• Thought I should give him a mention in this expo.
• Unknown species. Preys on fish and stray goblins.
• Spends all his time obsessing over the ring. And lives in an underground lake.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE TWO TOWERS.

• Made by J.R.R. Tolkien. Second book in lord of the rings series.
• Has some of the characters from the hobbit.
• Has another journey. Has external and internal conflicts.
• The characters go on a journey to complete a goal.
• Frodo and sam head to Mordor to toss the evil rings into Mt.Doom.

FRODO AND SAM

• Frodo is the ring holder and Sam assits him on his journey to Mordor.
• Both protagonists. Has extrrnal and internal conflicts.
• Their mission: to throw the ring in Mordor's Mount Doom.
• Sam calls Frodo his "master".
• Sam is a static protagonist character. Frodo is a dynamic protagonist.

THE RING.

• Has evil powers. Antagonist. Static character.
• Turns the wearer invisible if worn.
• Forged in the fires of mount doom by the ring creator.
• Did make an appearance in the hobbit. And yes its the same ring.
• If placed in fire it has ancient scribes glow on the sides and they tell how to destroy it.

GOLLUM/SMEAGOL

• Antagonist. Smeagol and gollum are the same person, just split personality. So, dynamic.
• He helps Frodo and Sam to mordor before trying to double cross them. But he does help then for a while.
• Only hope for Frodo and Sam to get into Mordor.
• Then when in morodor he backstabs them and leaves them after getting beaten by frodo.
• Never seen for the rest of the story. But comes back in the third book.

HOW THE AUTHOR KEPT YOUR INTREST.

• Man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. nature.

They have some characters the same, like the ring and gollum. Have a sort of the same story line to go on a journey and complete a goal. They both go on a journey to complete a goal. Same genres, and same author. Lots of man vs. man, man vs. nature. And some internal man vs. self.

They don't go on the same journey and to the same place. They don't have the exact same era as bilbo. In The Lord of the rings the two towers bilbo is depicted as much older than when he was in his book.

Why you should read it? If you like action packed fantasy books that have characters going through perilous journeys with goblins, dragons, dwarves, and wizards! This is the book for you!

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