The Struggle Between Good And Evil In The Hobbit

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Power rule and corrupt (Evans145).

Magic comprises part of the fantasy aspects of the book. For example, when Gandalf is awakened by a scream, there is a flash of light and the goblin king falls at Gandalf's feet. "Bilbo's yell had done that much good. It had wakened him up wide…" (Carpenter 124). When Gandalf used his magic lightning command he killed the goblin king. When Bilbo encounters Gullum and plays a game of riddles with Gullum he steals a magic ring from Gullum. When Gullum found out he attempted to chase Bilbo. At that moment Bilbo placed the magic ring on his finger "his head was in a whirl of hope and wonder. It seemed that the ring he had was a magic ring. It made you invisible" (Tolkien 89). This magic ring truly shows that The Hobbit is a fantasy story and the ring that Bilbo had both represented good and evil. This is the ring that made Gullum into what he was. But Bilbo uses the ring for ...

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by the evil in the magic ring, which has turned him into a monster.
Evil creeps up to the adventurers in the terror they felt when approaching Smaug. The adventurers went to seek Smaug and they went to go look for the secret door into the mountain but something took them by surprise. When they got to the secret door they heard thunder and crept along side the walls of the mountain. "The dwarves heard the awful rumor of his flight and they crouched against the wall…" (Tolkien 208). Throughout the whole story, being bad is not something someone would want to be because Tolkien eventually punishes evil such as in Smaug's case.
In The Hobbit the main aspect of the story is theft by a ...

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