"The Hobbit": A Dragon's Curse

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" (P.1). This is how J.R.R. Tolkien starts his world renown book "The Hobbit", published in 1966. This book is a tale of a small hobbit named Bilbo and his ever-memorable journey through the evil world during his time. Living in the Shire, as his homeland is called, it is very calm and pleasant for Bilbo, but once the outer limits of the land are …showed first 75 words of 2016 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2016 total…was caught and lured in by the tales and legends of the Dragon's gold. Fighting off many, many evil things Bilbo only escaped with life by a narrow margin many times. No obstacle was as heavy upon his heart and as hard to kill, though, as the lust and greed that he (along with the Dwarves, Elves, Goblins, and Wargs) had for the treasure that Smaug so greedily slept upon night after night without use.