Characters
Bilbo's "mentor" - a wizard.
Who is Gandalf?
Ingenious
What is clever or original?
Bilbo's home village
What is the Shire?
What did Gollum lose?
What is a ring?
A hint about what is to come. For example, "And that was the last time they saw their ponies."
What is foreshadowing?
The leader of the elves, a reader of moon letters
Who is Elrond?
Appalling
What is Very bad, awful; causing shock or dismay?
Where Bill, Bert, and Tom, goblins, and Gollum live.
What are caves?
What is Glamdring?
A reference to a character or thing from another literary work
What is an allusion?
Wears a blue hood with a silver tassel, a leader
Who is Thorin Oakenshield?
Shirk
What is avoid or neglect work?
Where the dwarves are going.
What is the Lonely Mountain?
This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.
What is time?
When the author talks to the audience, aka breaking the fourth wall
What is direct address?
A shape-changer, sometimes a bear and sometimes a man.
Who is Beorn?
Bracken
What is a coarse-lobed fern?
Where Beorn lives.
What is between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood?
The advice that Beorn gives the travelers.
What is don't drink the water?
When readers must infer what a character is like based on what the character does, what the character thinks, or how the character effects others.
What is indirect characterization?
Carries the hobbit and dwarves across the mountains
What are the eagles?
Quaff
What is to drink?
Where the spiders live.
What is Mirkwood?
How Gandalf deters the Wargs.
What is throwing flaming pine cones?
Three reasons Tolkien includes songs.
What are to share a backstory, to develop character and cultures, and to suggest the connection to oral tradition?