1. BILBO’S ADVENTURE
THEO 226
13-10-2015
SAMUEL FARRUGIA

2. THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH
• J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
• English philologist
• University professor
• The Hobbit (1937)
• + 100 million copies sold
• The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)
• + 150 million copies sold
• A great friend of C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia,
etc.) and played a major role in Lewis’ conversion to
Christianity.

3. LOTR: TOLKIEN’S MAGNUM OPUS
LOTR WAS MADE INTO A CINEMATIC TRILOGY: 2001-2003

4. PETER JACKSON’S CINEMATIC ADAPTATION
THE HOBBIT TRILOGY: 2012-2014

5. MIDDLE-EARTH

6. TOLKIEN’S “GENESIS”
(POSTHUMOUSLY: 1977)

7. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: ISTARI

8. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: DARK POWERS

9. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: ELVES

10. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: MEN

11. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: DWARVES

12. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: GOBLINS

13. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: HOBBITS

14. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: HOBBITS

15. THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: HOBBITS

16. HEROES
The hero and the saint are “ideal types”
• Both are important and neither should be dismissed in relation to the other.
Heroes
• Heroes are persons of great courage who perform extraordinary and praiseworthy
deeds.
– historical, mythical, spiritual, etc.
• before becoming a hero – they are unknown, ordinary – conflict draws out the
courage of the hero.
• heroes push through the fear; courage isn’t absence of fear, but rather facing it;
they acknowledge their feelings but rise above them.
• heroes fight for others.

17. “IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND THERE LIVED A HOBBIT…”

18. « …IT WAS A HOBBIT-HOLE, AND THAT MEANS COMFORT. »

19. « I’M LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO SHARE IN AN ADVENTURE »

20. « I’M LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO SHARE IN AN ADVENTURE »

21. AN UNEXPECTED PARTY

22. AN UNEXPECTED PARTY

23. AN UNEXPECTED PARTY

24. AN UNEXPECTED PARTY

25. « I’M GOING ON AN ADVENTURE » !

26. PERILS ON THE ROAD