The Hobbit by Tolkien: Comprehensive Reading Guide / Study Guide

This 62-page reading guide (36 without the answer key) encourages active reading strategies and facilitates plot comprehension. Each section of this guided reading resource is divided by chapter and includes lists of vocabulary terms to be defined, key quotations in need of analysis, and hundreds of text-dependent questions to create a more purposeful reading experience. An answer key is included.

This item covers the following and more:

• Description of a hobbit
• Gandalf’s first meeting with Bilbo
• Thorin’s ancestral history
• Bilbo’s reluctance to participate in the journey
• Bilbo’s role
• The trolls
• Gandalf as the mentor
• The adventurers’ general disdain toward Bilbo
• Elrond
• Moon letters
• Bilbo’s significant discovery
• Gollum’s characterization and peculiar habits
• The riddle contest
• The escape from Gollum and the cave
• The incident with the wargs
• The Eages’ aid
• Beorn’s background
• Beorn’s role as a protector of nature
• The dangers of Mirkwood
• Bombur’s dream
• The conflict involving spiders
• Bilbo’s strategic thinking and heroic victory
• The change in the adventurers’ perception of Bilbo
• The characterization of the wood elves
• Thorin’s imprisonment and stubbornness
• Bilbo’s growing frustrations with the other adventurers
• Lake Town, its inhabitants, and their reaction to the adventurers
• Bilbo’s plan to rescue the dwarves – and its weakness
• Lonely Mountain
• Bilbo’s growing seriousness toward his role
• The secret door of the mountain
• The significance of the thrush
• Smaug’s interactions with Bilbo
• Smaug’s reaction to the people of Lake Town
• The Arkenstone
• The exit from the mountain
• Bard’s talents and significance
• How the Master of Lake Town infuriated his people
• Smaug’s death
• The relationship between Thror’s people and ravens
• Roac’s recommendation
• The return to the mountain
• Bard’s attempt to rationalize with Thorin
• Thorin’s disinterest in sharing his wealth
• Bilbo’s secret bargaining with Bard and the Elvenking
• Gandalf’s pride in Bilbo
• Bilbo’s justification for the bargain
  Thorin’s angry response
• Dain’s involvement
• Battle of Five Armies
• Unity among factions
• Thorin’s dynamic character/sudden realization
• The Eagles’ return
• Honoring the dead
• Various new roles for previously met characters
• Bilbo’s return home
• Bilbo’s shocking discovery
• Bilbo’s new reputation