The plot of the story, is a about a character Hobbit or a half-ling, who goes on an adventure with 13 dwarves, and a wizard named Gandalf. During their travels, they face conflicts with trolls, goblins and wolves, spiders, wood elves, and ultimately a dragon at the end. I have come to the climax of the story; Smaug the Dragon is dead, and the Dwarves have taken back their once-long, lost home, Lonely Mountain. I suppose what we might call the subplot is beginning to unravel. This is when most of the side characters get involved with the climax of the story, when there's a battle involving them. And although the conflict with the Dragon, Smaug has been resolved, there's yet another conflict about to ensue.
This is my third time reading the book, and it's definitely more enjoyable for me to read The Hobbit on this round, since I'm coming to know literary terms from Dr. Burton's English 251 class, and have noticed how J.R.R. Tolkien was able to make smooth transitions throughout the book. For an example:
"Already men were jumping into the water on every side. Women and children were being huddled into laden boats in the market-pool. Weapons were flung down. There was mourning and weeping, where but a little time ago the old songs of mirth to come had been sung about the dwarves. Now men cursed their names. The Master himself was turning to his great gilded boat, hoping to row away in the confusion and save himself. Soon all the town would be deserted and burned down to the surface of the lake.
"That was the dragon's hope. They could all get into boats for all he cared. There he could have fine sport hunting them, or they could stop till they starved. Let them try to get to land and he would be ready. Soon he would set all the shoreland woods ablaze and wither every field and pasture. Just now he was enjoying the sport of town-baiting more than he had enjoyed anything for years."
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