Rachel hebert-blog 2 10-23-12

         I am reading The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein. I'm a little past half way through the book, and there are pretty much no boring parts anywhere in the book. So, Bilbo sets off with a whole bunch of dwarves and a wizard to retrieve treasure that the evil dragon Smaug is guarding. To help them through a trecherous forest, Gandalf, the wizard, decides that they'll stop at Beorn's house at the edge of the woods. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this right, but Beorn is a bear who can talk(I'm pretty sure everything talks in this series) that can also shape-shift into different things like humans and other animals(most of which are huge). Because he lives by the forest, he has knoledge he can tell them and supply them with food and other items that would help them through the forest. Right now, the group is in the forest, but they really hate it because there's no end in sight, and at night, It's so dark that you can't see your hand in front of your face.
         I really like the book because it has really imaginative characters and you can tell that the author spent his time to make the book show it as he saw their world.
         I think that the author wrote this book because he probably dreamt of hobbits and other creatures in the book when he was a child, and he wanted to write about them.
        There are definately alot of themes in this book, but I think that one of the most important ones is that you can break free from your stereotype(I'm not using that word just because it's in word study) and turn out to be more of a hero-figure than those who underestimated you to begin with. By the way, I'm pretty much talking about Bilbo.
       Of course, I have to say that the best character is Bilbo because he funny, but also pretty witty. he's grown alot by becoming more adventurous and learning that adventurous is okay. I also really like Thorin because he's one of the smartest and leader-like one of the dwarves.
       "Short cuts make for long delays" is one of my favorite quotes from the book because it's saying that in the long run, taking the easy way out will just make it all the harder later.
         I don't really have any questions, except what's going to happen at the end!