The Hobbit Analysis

In life, music is influential to many individuals by setting a tone. Just as music sets tone in, The Hobbit. Things like tone, the content in the song, and the structure of a piece of music, can give hints of what a certain group, like dwarves, elves, and goblins are like. First of all, the dwarves song makes the average reader want to go places. You can see an example of this in page 14 of, The Hobbit, When Bilbo Baggins goes from a character who would just rather stay at home, to a character who craved to go on an adventure. I know this because the text states, “As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things.” Then later on the narrator quoted, “ Then something tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go see the mountains.” This lengthy, flowy, in detail, song made this hobbit want to get out the house and go on an adventure. To me, this establishes the dwarves can use in detail
mustic to trick somebody into doing anything. In addition, The elves song gives an upbeat tone to the reader. Just from start to finish in pages 48 to 49 the elves just seem to be jubilant, you can see this with exclamation points almost every sentence. The structure of the text also contained a lot of choppy and short sentences. Adding on to this, the song was immensely short just like the sentences. Now even though it was upbeat, the content did not mention many positive things about the dwarves, an example was when the elves were mocking the dwarves beards. This content from the elves just hints more at why the dwarves have such a hatred for elvish kind. To finish things up, we meet up with the goblins, whose song was by far the shortest one throughout, The Hobbit.
The musical piece really makes you fearful, because the lyrics to this song are just to the point, by telling you, you’re going to be taken underground and be there for the rest of your life.This short and more aggressive writing is also made up of choppy sentences, much like the elves musical piece. The textual evidence shows that the goblins were people who cared for themselves and didn’t stress about any other beings. In some way music shows who you are in some way, shape, or form, just like in, The Hobbit, where you can find out what a character is like from hearing their very own music. The dwarves made you want to go somewhere, with their in detail perspectives of the mountains. Then the elves, who seemed to be upbeat most of the time, but did everything they could to show hate to the dwarves and their beards. After that you run into the all so evil goblins, who despised absolutely everyone but their own kind, and sang about how they would traumatise
you.