Events
Bilbo wakes up to find a mess of dishes the morning after the dwarves arrive. This person cleans up that mess.
Who is Bilbo Baggins?
The trolls were sitting on these types of trees.
What are beech trees?
The human settlement south of the Lonely Mountain.
What is Lake-town (Esgaroth)?
Thorin says that this is worth more than a river of gold to him.
What is the Arkenstone?
What is the University of Oxford?
The magic ability granted to Bilbo when he puts on the ring.
What is invisibility?
The age of Middle Earth during The Hobbit.
What is the Third Age?
The eerie forest filled with threats, such as giant spiders.
What is Mirkwood?
Gollum took the ring from this person.
Who is Déagol?
He was the first dwarf to arrive at Bilbo's door.
Who is Dwalin?
At the end of chapter XVII, these creatures come in from the sky.
Who are the Eagles?
The theme of greed, or dragon-sickness, affects many people, including Thorin. This event shows us just how overcome with the sickness Thorin is.
What is Thorin's obsessive greed for the treasure, mainly the Arkenstone, and his refusal to share?
This captured place used to be a prosperous home for the dwarves.
What is the Lonely Mountain?
This is the first thing Bilbo took from under Smaug.
What is a golden two-handled cup?
The Hobbit was published in this year.
What is 1937?
This hit Bilbo in the head, causing him to fall unconscious.
What is a stone?
The riddle game in chapter V of The Hobbit shows us Bilbo and Gollum challenging each other with riddles rather than a fight. The riddle scene enforces the theme of this.
What is brain over brawn/intelligence is just as helpful as physical skills?
The name of Bilbo's father.
Who is Bungo Baggins?
Orcrist and Glamdring are called this by the goblins.
What are Biter and Beater?
JRR Tolkien was born here.
What is Bloemfontein, South Africa?
In chapter XVI, Bilbo tries to give the Arkenstone to these two people.
Who is Bard the Bowman and the Elven-king?
Everything is connected! The idiom "the pen is mightier than the sword" means that communication and ideas can often overpower physical strength. Bilbo uses his communication in this event rather than brawn while speaking to an enemy.
What is the riddle game?
After saving the Company from the goblins and Wargs, the Eagles brought them here.
What is the Carrock?
At the start of The Hobbit, Thorin left a note containing instructions in Bilbo's home. He specifically left it in this place.
What is under a clock on the mantelpiece?
JRR Tolkien was grading papers; he came across a blank one and wrote this.
What is, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit,"?