Group "C" should answer TWO of the following:
Q1: In Chapter Eight, after
fighting the spiders, Bilbo says, “I will give you a name,” he said to it,” and
I shall call you Sting” (142). Why do
you think he names his sword, which clearly isn’t a legendary weapon like “Beater”
or “Biter”? Why might this also illustrate the transformation going on in Bilbo
by this point in the novel?
Q2: Unlike most novels,
Tolkein’s narrator is almost a character in the novel, full of coy hints about
the world’s history, and riddling sense of humor. Where do we most see the
narrator intrude on the story itself, and why do you think he does this? Why
not just tell the story ‘straight’?
Q3: Writing about the
Wood-elves, Tolkein remarks, “They dwelt most often by the edges of the woods,
from which they could escape at times to hunt, or to ride and run over the open
lands by moonlight or starlight; and after the coming of Men they took ever
more and more to the gloaming and the dusk. Still elves they were and remain,
and that is Good People” (152). What do the elves seem to represent for Tolkein,
since they are the greatest race in Middle Earth? Why, too, are they people of “the
gloaming and the dusk”?
Q4: Why do the people of Lake Town
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