The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien presents an extremely fantastic miraculous Middle Earth world, and narrates a story with hope and reliance, guts and persistence, fear and puzzlement. It illustrates a vivid picture of the classic adventure story, which is shown as a seductive, arduous journey, and in which frustration, monumental treasures, and dangerous battles are typical. A lot of critical attention has been focus on the nontraditional features of a heroic protagonist in this book. Moreover, at the end, the hobbit finally becomes an example of the theme of “even the smallest person can change the course of the future”, this significant philosophy, which consist the author’s opinion that how regular folks can make a difference. The book uses non-heroes as character to make the transformation of Bilbo into a hero that much more dramatic.
The Hobbit takes place in Middle Earth, specifically Kindly West, Rivendell, Mirkwood, and the Lonely Mountain. The book begins in the “Kindly West”, in the land of the hobbits. Hobbits called the Bilbo’s home “The Hill”, and Took family inhibited across “The Water”, which is a river that located in the Hill. These clues show that the hobbits are socially in isolation from the world and so sheltered that their range of activities is only on a hill and on body of water. They don’t even bother to think of any distinguishing names to differentiate rivers and hills. Bilbo and the dwarves start off the adventure to east, and as they go further and further away from Bilbo’s home, the more unknowns and dangers they encounter. Meanwhile they approached Rivendell, the real borderline between good and evil. It is protected by the great lord Elrond, filled with elves. They pass through the Misty Mountain, and a wild man in a large wooden house called Beorn serves them with honey and bread. His house does not make Bilbo feel that it is reliable and home-like which foreshadows a serious unknown risk approaching them. Next up, they...