Mr Bilbo Baggins Quotes

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My topic for this English project is the character Gandalf. After reading this paper I hope to have one goal accomplished, and that is to have enlightened you on more things than one about this specific character. I will try to cover anything and everything that is Gandalf related in The Hobbit from what his purpose and what roles he played, to exactly what my thoughts about him. Other than Mr. Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf is one of the first characters that we meet in the Hobbit. If you’re like me, one of the first questions you might have asked while reading this story was what exactly does this Gandalf look like. On pages 4 and 5 of chapter one, the narrator states that Gandalf is an old man with a long white beard that hung below his…show more content…
To me he seems almost like the mother of the group, by all the ways that he helps out like saving them multiple time while they are in great danger and pointing them into the right direction. Another way that you can tell that he is one of the wiser characters is by a lot of the things that he says. In the end of this book he makes the quote: “You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am quite fond if you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all”. I think this quote says more than enough about how wise Gandalf really is. Another trait of Gandalf is how trusting he is towards Bilbo. Although almost all the dwarves don’t believe in his abilities in the beginning of the story Gandalf does. He states many times that since he himself chose Bilbo, he most certainly is the one for the job even though he didn’t really look like it at first. I think that had a big effect on the story’s outcome because of how Bilbo thought of himself. He knew that Gandalf had faith in him and his abilities and I think thats what played a large part in him having faith in his own abilities so he was able to carry out all the noble actions that he
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