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    Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has changes made to it that make the novel look bad. The title of the book is The Hobbit written by J.R.R Tolkien and the director of the movie is Peter Jackson. A small‚ peaceful hobbit named Bilbo Baggins goes on an unwanted adventure with 13 dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf. In the chapter‚ “Inside Information”‚ Bilbo begins to act more brave and starts to show the characteristics of a hero. In the movie Jackson changed the way that Smaug was first shown and how

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    is no difference in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit. The main antagonist Smaug‚ a Dragon‚ and the lesser antagonist‚ Gollum‚ both share similar traits to fit the author’s definition of evil. Which is greed for anything they desire‚ hurting anyone in their path‚ being clever. Smaug the main antagonist in the story has all the traits to be Tolkien’s main villain. Tolkien likes his villains to be clever and that fits Smaug very well. First it took the Hobbit‚ who is the protagonist of the story‚ several

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    Bilbo Baggins is given the responsibility of saving the dwarves from being eaten by Smaug‚ the dragon‚ just like when he saved the dwarves from multiple terrible situations such as saving them from the trolls. The title of this book is The Hobbit written by J.R.R. Tolkien and the director of the movie “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug” is Peter Jackson. The book and movie are about a hobbit named Bilbo who is called to go on an adventure. In this adventure Bilbo‚ 13 dwarves‚ and a wizard will go

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    Chapter 8‚ Bilbo rescued the dwarves by equipping his ring that allows him to be invisible and lure the spiders out to cut the dwarves free. If Bilbo didn’t come up with his intelligent plan‚ the dwarves would of died resulting in a failure to kill Smaug. Other complications is that Bilbo and the dwarves have to travel through the Mirkwood forest to get to their desired destination‚ but this forest is dangerous and proves to be a challenge to the group. The group spots a light and hear singing‚ so

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    Smaug-gling Gold Lost in the heart of the Lonely Mountains lies a stolen treasure guarded by an evil‚ dangerous dragon. The novel‚ The Hobbit‚ by J.R.R Tolkien‚ is a high-fantasy novel and has a series of movies based on it directed by Peter Jackson. The Hobbit is a novel based on Bilbo Baggin’s simple life changing due to Gandalf the wizard who thinks Bilbo would make a worthy burglar in a group of dwarves. They go on a quest facing many perils through treacherous lands to rightfully get back Thorin

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    In The Hobbit‚ Bilbo required a lot of courage to enter the belly of the whale (facing Smaug) because he is very dangerous and everyone is afraid of him. If he did not have courage‚ then he would have gotten killed. In addition‚ he needed to be good at talking and smart in order to not give away who he is and not be affected by dragonlore

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    their lives ordered and predictable. One day‚ he unexpectedly finds himself playing host to Gandalf the wizard and thirteen dwarves. The dwarves‚ with Gandalf’s help‚ plan to travel to the Lonely Mountain to recover the treasure that a dragon named Smaug stole from their people long ago. Gandalf has selected Bilbo to be their burglar. The dwarves are not too happy with the wizard’s choice‚ especially when Bilbo faints at the first talk of danger. But Gandalf insists there is more to the little hobbit

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    by the name of Gandalf and some dwarves to kill a dragon. Bilbo must fight against Smaug‚ a dragon who hoards treasure. First‚ Gandalf and the dwarves appear at Bilbo’s house to try and convince Bilbo to come with them to help kill the dragon. After days of persuasion and promises of riches beyond his wildest dreams Bilbo agrees and goes with the group to help kill the mighty Smaug. Along the journey to kill Smaug Bilbo and the gang run into murderous ogres‚ giant spiders‚ and Gollum-a hobbit that

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    his own comfort rather than his people’s survival and welfare. Bard was called into leadership by the people when a true danger occurred. When Smaug flew forth from his cave and attacked Lake Town the responses from both characters is astoundingly different. The Master‚ the appointed ruler of Lake Town‚ fled‚ leaving his people behind to be killed by Smaug. All the Master cared about was saving his own skin instead of helping his subjects escape. Bard‚ on the other hand‚ took his bow and defended

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    the dwarves watch from a mountain as the dragon known as Smaug goes down to Laketown to destroy everything with his fiery rage. As Smaug terrorises the town Bard the bowman breaks out of prison and is out to make sure his family is safe. Once he found his family he realized that the black arrow could kill the dragon‚ so he sets off the the bell tower were the remaining great bow is to shoot the black arrow. Once at the Tower the dragon Smaug tries to stop Bard and makes him drop his arrow‚ but Bain

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