Rachel Hebert-Post #3

I'm reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein. I'm more than halfway through the book. Right now in the book, Bilbo Baggins is saving his dwarf friends from giant spiders with a special sword that spiders apparently don't seem to like all that much, and of course, the ring after all of them entered this spooky forest and all but Bilbo got tied up in spider silk. The book is extremely good. There are no boring parts and you can tell that the author spent his time trying to think like the characters and put that point of view in the book.
    I think that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote this because it seems like this would be the sort of thing that he would have daydreamt about as a kid, and he wanted to cram all those ideas into the book. Or, from using what my sister told me, because he was in WWI, there's a theory that he based the magical world in the book off of the different feuding countries in the war.
   I think one of the themes in this story is that someone who is very underestimated can end up being more of a hero than those who underestimated him(Bilbo, of course.)
   Bilbo has to be my favorite character because he's funny when he's not trying to be and he's also courageous and willing to try new things, which is pretty much the whole journey for him. He's grown alot throughout the course of the book. He's become more daring and adventurous, and I think he's now wanting to prove all of the people, or other magical creatures, wrong.
    “A box without hinges, key, or lid,
     Yet golden treasure inside is hid.” 
   
  “Alive without breath,
    As cold as death;
    Never thirsty, ever drinking,
    All in mail never clinking.” 
   
Those riddles are two of my favorites in the book. They're important to the story because it shows how clever Bilbo can be.

   I don't really have any questions about my book except what's going to hapen at the end!

-The answer to the first riddle was an egg, and the answer to the second was a fish