A Story Told Through Song
Neal Timberlake
Mrs. Thompson
English 9- period 6
23 August 2006
A Story told through Song
When song writers write songs, the songs usually have to do with real situations and other aspects of their life. For example writers write songs about love, life problems, adventures, feelings, and dreams. In the novel The Hobbit by, J.R.R. Tolkien, songs are used many times throughout the story. In The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien uses songs to explain adventures and settings, through the characters that sing them.
Tolkien uses songs to provide most of the descriptions in his novel. To introduce the personality of Bilbo, the main character of the story, the twelve dwarfs sing, "Chip the glasses and crack the plates! Blunt the knives
and bend the forks! That's what Bilbo Baggins hates- smash the bottles and burn the corks! Cut the cloth and tread on the fat!"(12) In the novel, the dwarfs use this song to make fun of Bilbo and his neat and tidy personality. They are surprised that......
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