Comparing The Hobbit And The Lord Of The Rings

Reading on a surface level, the beloved mythological children’s story, The Hobbit is an imaginative tale of unusual creatures and battles, but an in-depth look at the author, J.R.R. Tolkien’s life and circumstances reveals a deeper look at the social and economic problems in his world. The Hobbit is a quest tale, written by J.R.R. Tolkien, in the early 1930’s. During that time there were many consequences from World War I, which affected Tolkien’s writing style. He was a creative writer that was a part of his own writing class and had to go through many phases and years to create his most famous novel. He worked on many different books and used different literary devices, but his unique writing in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings created his literary reputation. J.R.R. Tolkien’s goal
He showed war like aspects within his story and through the characters. Beginning in the early 1920’s there were many different wars and changes flooding through Europe, all of which could have been an influence on Tolkien’s writing. Before The Hobbit was published, Tolkien had lived in Europe during some of the worst genocides in European history. These genocides included the gruesome death of millions of people due to corrupt governments. In The Hobbit the characters are very separated by race and class, which resulted in some groups being nearly exterminated. Hobbits, the highest class of all races, had created their own genocide and killed many of the working class trolls, goblins, and spiders (Firchow). Since this book began as just nightly stories to his small children, Tolkien would have used his past memories and experiences, which made for The Hobbit to be close to real European history. He simply changed the storylines to create an adventurous children’s story for his own kids, that now people of all ages can