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The Hobbit

The Hobbit. Smaug. Dominant Grand/Majestic Awesome Treasure Instills fear in the reader. Use of Personal Pronouns.

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The Hobbit

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  1. The Hobbit

  2. Smaug • Dominant • Grand/Majestic • Awesome Treasure • Instills fear in the reader

  3. Use of Personal Pronouns • “There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; a thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but hisfires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.” • Creates a sense of dominance due to his ownership • Everything seems to belong to the Dragon

  4. “all” & Present Participle • “under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across unseen floors” • Use of ?collective? word “all” gives the impression that the Dragon is never ending. • Use of present participle “stretching” also connotes that Smaug continues in all directions.

  5. Imagery • “vast red-golden dragon” • Lexical choice of “vast” gives an impression of his size. • Colour choice of “red-golden” gives connotations of majesty. Very royal colours, colour of kings.

  6. Lexical Choice • “Then Bilbo fled.” • Use of “fled” infers that Bilbo was running for his life, although Smaug only stirred. • The use of the short sentence also puts emphasis on the action of fleeing.

  7. Catalog of Smaug’s Treasure • “Countless piles of precious things,gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.” • Broken up by commas and the use of “and”, gives the impression that there is many things to look at. • Bilbo’s eyes dart from one pile to the next • Lexical choice of “countless piles”

  8. List of 3 • “but the splendour, the lust, the glory of such treasure” • Emphasizes the magnificence of Smaug’s treasure. • “lust” is an unusual word used to describe treasure, but it is so impressive that Bilbo has personified the treasure.

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