much of bilbos adventure? what does bilbo think about his travels back home? whats going on at bilbos house? explain who? why? what did bilbo do with his sword and his ring? how are things going in the land of the mountain? what happend to the old master?
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necromancer\n\nn 1: one who practices magic or sorcery [syn: sorcerer, magician, wizard] 2: one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead
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excellent book, I would suggest doing your own homework. But if you are just looking for some ideas to get you going then i can help. Have you actually read the novel?\n\nRalph\n\nRalph is the athletic, charismatic protagonist of Lord of the Flies. Elected the leader of the boys at the beginning of the novel, Ralph is the primary representative of order, civilization, and productive leadership in the novel. While most of the other boys initially are concerned with playing, having fun, and avoiding work, Ralph sets about building huts and thinking of ways to maximize their chances of being rescued. For this reason, Ralph’s power and influence over the other boys are secure at the beginning of the novel. However, as the group gradually succumbs to savage instincts over the course of the novel, Ralph’s position declines precipitously while Jack’s rises. Eventually, most of the boys except Piggy leave Ralph’s group for Jack’s, and Ralph is left alone to be hunted by Jack’s tribe. Ralph’s commitment to civilization and morality is strong, and his main wish is to be rescued and returned to the society of adults. In a sense, this strength gives Ralph a moral victory at the end of the novel, when he casts the Lord of the Flies to the ground and takes up the stake it is impaled on to defend himself against Jack’s hunters.\nIn the earlier parts of the novel, Ralph is unable to understand why the other boys would give in to base instincts of bloodlust and barbarism. The sight of the hunters chanting and dancing is baffling and distasteful to him. As the novel progresses, however, Ralph, like Simon, comes to understand that savagery exists within all the boys. Ralph remains determined not to let this savagery -overwhelm him, and only briefly does he consider joining Jack’s tribe in order to save himself. When Ralph hunts a boar for the first time, however, he experiences the exhilaration and thrill of bloodlust and violence. When he attends Jack’s feast, he is swept away by the frenzy, dances on the edge of the group, and participates in the killing of Simon. This firsthand knowledge of the evil that exists within him, as within all human beings, is tragic for Ralph, and it plunges him into listless despair for a time. But this knowledge also enables him to cast down the Lord of the Flies at the end of the novel. Ralph’s story ends semi-tragically: although he is rescued and returned to civilization, when he sees the naval officer, he weeps with the burden of his new knowledge about the human capacity for evil.\n\nJack\n\nThe strong-willed, egomaniacal Jack is the novel’s primary representative of the instinct of savagery, violence, and the desire for power—in short, the antithesis of Ralph. From the beginning of the novel, Jack desires power above all other things. He is furious when he loses the election to Ralph and continually pushes the boundaries of his subordinate role in the group. Early on, Jack retains the sense of moral propriety and behavior that society instilled in him—in fact, in school, he was the leader of the choirboys. The first time he encounters a pig, he is unable to kill it. But Jack soon becomes obsessed with hunting and devotes himself to the task, painting his face like a barbarian and giving himself over to bloodlust. The more savage Jack becomes, the more he is able to control the rest of the group. Indeed, apart from Ralph, Simon, and Piggy, the group largely follows Jack in casting off moral restraint and embracing violence and savagery. Jack’s love of authority and violence are intimately connected, as both enable him to feel powerful and exalted. By the end of the novel, Jack has learned to use the boys’ fear of the beast to control their behavior—a reminder of how religion and superstition can be manipulated as instruments of power.
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It tells you in the book.  You should read it, it's awesome.  I guess I'll tell you anyway (wouldn't want to spoil the book for you!).  When Frodo was stabbed in the shoulder on Weathertop by one of the ringwraiths (those guys in black), a piece of the blade stuck in his shoulder so that he almost became a wraith himself.  Elrond was able to save him-barely.  But the wound wasn't ever going to fully heal.  Remember at the end of the movie he's writing in that book, he suddenly clutches at his shoulder, because every year on the same day that he was stabbed, his wound becomes painful again.  Also, the ring had left an incurable wound as well.  Frodo leaves for the Havens and from there he sails on to Valinor with the Elves.  (Remember that he was stabbed in October and the ring was destroyed on March)\n\nHere's a passage straight from the book:\n\n"One evening Sam came into the study and found his master looking very strange.  He was very pale and his eyes seemed to see things far away.\n           'What's the matter, Mr. Frodo?' said Sam.\n           'I am wounded,' he answered, 'wounded; it will never really heal.'\n     But then he got up, and the turn seemed to pass, and he was quite himself the next day.  It was not until afterwards that Sam that the date was October the sixth.  Two years before on that day it was dark in the dell under Weathertop.\n\n        Time went on, and 1421 came in.  Frodo was ill again in March, but with a great effort he concealed it, for Sam had other things to think about.  The first of Sam and Rosie's was born on the twenty-fifth of March, a date that Sam noted."\n\nHere's another:\n\n"'Yes, I am coming,' said Frodo.  'The Ring-bearers should go together.'\n    'Where are you going, Master?' cried Sam, though at last he understood what was happening.\n     'To the Havens, Sam,' said Frodo.\n     'And I can't come.'\n     'No, Sam.  Not yet anyways, not further than the Havens.  Though you too were a Ring-bearer, if only for a little while.  Your time may come.  Do not be too sad, Sam.  You cannot be always torn in two.  You will have to be one and whole for many years.  You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.\n     'But,' said Sam and tears started in his eyes, 'I thought you were going to enjoy the Shire, too, for years and years, after all you have done.'\n     'So I thought too, once.  But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam.  I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me.  It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."\n\nThere, that's as thorough as I can get.  Hope it helped.  And you really should read the books, if not just for the information, they're awesome!
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Thorin was definitely the hero of The Hobbit.\n\nHe had a quest he was on -- to regain the stolen treasure of the Lonely Mountain.\n\nBilbo was just on an adventure.\n\nOkay, I admit, Bilbo was the more interesting character, partly because The Hobbit was told from his point of view,  \nbut he was just a hired sneak-thief, an "expert burglar."
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the two towers is my fav.  i love the war sequence.  my favorite part is when ghimli asks aragorn to toss him.  lol!!  oh and i can't forget the part where ghimli can't see over the wall and legolas asks him if he needs a box.  yeah, i have seen these movies way too many times.
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1.Foundation of stone-Foundation of Stone ch.1\n2.The taming of Smeagol-The taming of Smeagol-ch.2\n3.The riders of Rohan-The burnign of the Westfold ch.5,The riders of Rohan ch.9,The banishment of Eomer ch.6\n4.The passage of the Marshes-The passage of the Marhes ch.12\n5.The Uruk-hai-The Uruk-Hai ch.3\n6.The king of the Golden Hall-The king of the Golden Hall ch.16\n7.The Black Gate is closed-The Black Gate is closed ch.15\n8.The evenstar-The Evenstar ch.25\n9.The White Rider-The white Rider ch.13\n10.Treebeard-Fangorn Forest ch.14\n11.The leave taking-The story foreseen from Lorien ch.31\n12.Helm´s deep-Helm´s deep ch.27\n13.The forbidden pool-The forbidden pool ch.33\n14.Breath of life-The grace of Valar ch.29,Arwen´s fate ch.30\n15.The Hornburg-Where is the horse and the rider ch.37,The host of the Eldar ch.38,The battle of the Hornburg ch.39\n16.Forth Eorlingas-Forth Eorlingas ch.48\n17.Isengard Unleashed-Aragorn´s return ch.34,The breach of the deeping wall ch.41,Retreat to the Hornburg ch.43\n18.Samwise the brave-The tales that really matters ch.50\n19.Gollum´s song-End credits ch.53\nThe numbers of the chapters(ch.)aren´t from the extended version...
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OK, I read LOTF in 1980 but I think Ralph cried becuase he recognized his own failings as a "civilized" person.  He cried because he had turned savage and he felt he had failed himself and everyone else (especially Tubby).  He was especially bummed because he realized that he only needed to hold on to his civilized humanity a short while longer and he would have been rescued without shame.
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whoa! demo, did you actually write all that or just cut and paste it?\n\nTo keep it simple as possible w/o an entire unrelated history of the Middle Earth:\n\nElrond and Elros were of mixed race of the elves of the Sindar and Noldor and of humans from two noble houses. They were descended from even the Maiar.\n\nTheir grandparents were:\n\n*Beren and Luthien\n-Beren was a man of the House of Beor\n-Luthien was the daughter of Thingol of the Sindarin Elves and Melian the Maiar\n--Their son was Dior who was Elvish and his daughter was Elwing\n\n*Tuor and Idril\n-Tuor was a man of the House of Haldor\n-Idril was the daughter of Turgon at one time High King of the Noldor\n--Their child was Earendil the Mariner who was human\n--He married Elwing and thier sons were Elrond and Elros\n\nNow Morgoth was running rampant in Middle Earth particularly Beleriand. Pretty much all the old strongholds of Elves, Men, and even Dwarves were ruined. Earendil made a forbidden journey to the West to get help from the Valar. \n\nThey answered and with him destroyed Morgoth's forces and put the upstart Valar away for good. Earendil was forbidden to return to the realm of man and to his sons was given the choice to be man or elf.\n\nElrond chose to be Elf while his brother chose to be a man and became the first king of Numenor with an extended lifespan.\n\nSo the choice had to do with both their parentage and their father's actions  - plus probably a bit of foresight on certain Valar's part who saw the destiny of Elros and Elrond's descendents intertwined.\n\nhope that makes some sense
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The Lady of Shallot? That's my favorite poem! Getting back to the topic, I'm a heterosexual male, and the movie made ME cry. It was deeply moving. It's a shame that people will kill each other just because they are different.
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Why would you read the conclusion? That ruins every story...I think you mean comments or i=what is on the back cover. Some great books are Watership Down, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, good fantasy with morals and leads to a lot of immagionation. I hear goo stuf about harry Potter series/ not just for kids really.
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Has anyone gone to the Nivarna, Nibban?\n\nHis address plese.\nEmail\nPhone\nPostmail.\n\nI would like to interview him for serious information. Please help me.
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Here are a cuple places with summarysand then my summary\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Chair\n\nhttp://www.macrobee.de/version2/article.php3?id_article=74\n\nTwo children, Eustace and Jill, are picked to save the prince's life from the evil witch. They are sent to Narnia, the magical place out of this world, by Aslan, the king of all Narnia. Aslan sends them there so that they would travel to the other side of Narnia into the witch's palace and defeat her, so they can have the prince back. \nEustace and Jill overcome huge obstacles, but in the end make it to the palace. When they reach the palace, the witch is waiting for them, waiting to kill them. She has her army try to kill them but Aslan comes and rescues them. As he fights them off, the children run inside and take the prince. The prince is free, and Aslan kills the witch.
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Mav got up and went to church even though she really wanted to be on top of a mountain looking out over creation.  \n\nPreacher was the long winded one, and Mav has a short attention span, but she got to say goodbye to her friend that is moving.\n~~~~~~~~~\nEDIT\nEri - NEVER skip breakfast! Just eat it later. :D
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The Lord Of the Rings!
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None really.  The whole series kind of sucked.\n\nThe Hobbit was the best of all of them, but that's just b/c the name 'Bilbo Baggins' is fun to say.
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Tom Bombadil\n\nof all the folks the hobbits meet  tom is the most wondrously unexplainable encounter and certainly they had the best time at his house.\nSome say Tom had no real role to play in the war  but I think they over look what he did for Merry.   Merry starts out disliking magic forests like the old forest near buckland and his encounter with old man willow would have encouraged his dislike of magic trees\nBut then he was rescued by old Tom.\nTom's influence would be the only explanation for Merry's sort of liking Fangorn forest  which led to Treebeard being friendly. \n\nOk enough with Tolkien trivia   the real truth why I love Tom\nTom is such a Snazzy dresser.\n\nOld Tom is a merry fellow; Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow
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I have two more movies to watch that I rented. I already watched The Brothers Grimm, not too bad, pretty cool how they included a lot of things in the movies that had to do with fairy tales. Now I have left The Constant Gardener and The Village. \nOther than that, it's too cold to go outside, just staying in, locked to the internet and alternately playing Morrowind:The Elder Scrolls III.