The setting of The Hobbit

The Hobbit starts with this famous sentence: "In a whole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
We get to know Bilbo Baggins from the inside and out, as I already have made a description of in my last post.

The main thing and the "objective" in this story, is to get the mountain of Erebor back from the dragon Smaug. The old king of Erebor was Thorin Oakenshield's grandfather. He was too addicted to gold and one day, it was too much for him. Smaug stormed the mountain and took it as its own. All of the dwarves had to escape, at least those who lived. And now, years later, the dwarves decided to meet at Bilbo's house in Baggend in the Shire. The Shire is where all hobbits live.
On the journey they meet all kinds of dangerous animals and creatures. They meet three trolls, stupid but dangerous. They meet orcs, bad warriors but many, and last but not least the dragon, Smaug. The fire-breathing death machine.

Thorin and his company needs shelter and food when they leave the elves and the orcs down from a river. Down that river, the two elves Legolas and Tauriel helps the dwarves escaping from the orcs.
When they have lost the orcs, they meet a man, called Bard. He is a helpful man, who gives them food and shelter. And in payment, the people of laketown are supposed to get gold from the mountain, when they have killed the dragon.

When they come to the mountain, they find the way in to the mountain with the key from Gandalv. And when this happens, Bilbo (who is the burglar) goes inside the mountain to find something that matters alot for the dwarf-king. The archenstone. Also known as the heart of the mountain. This is what drove Thorin's grandfather mad. It is something you can't put a value on, and it belongs to the king of the mountain, which soon will be Thorin.

After a long struggle of fighting with the dragon, The dragon goes to laketown, to kill and burn everything that is in it. But Bard, is the hero and slains the dragon with help from his son, and an arrow made of dwarves, especially to penetrate a dragon's skin.

After this event we have a large battle of five armies, and it ends good. And the dwarves wins the mountain (except Thorin), and Bilbo gets to go home and The book ends where "The Lord of The Rings" Start.

Hope you liked this, a pleasure to write about the Hobbit. I is a little bit long as a setting text, but I think this length is what you need when writing a text about the setting in this amazing book.
- Philip.