The main conflict in The Hobbit is trying to regain the Lonely Mountain from Smaug the Dragon.
The main points of conflict in The Hobbit were caused by the greed of various people.
Smaug is the major conflict who is slain by Bard.
There is more than one conflict in The Hobbit. The conflict with society would be with the river elves or Bilbo interactions with the dwarves as a group. But there is man vs man, man vs society, man vs enviroment
There are so many conflicts. The goblins of the Misty Mountains were a huge conflict, but also the wild wolves, the giant spiders, the wood elves, and of course the most important conflict of all, Smaug the Great Dragon.
Goblins and Dwarves live in the same kinds of places, and have a long standing rivalry for occupation of those places. That's the primary source of their conflict.
A hobbit barrow is referred to as a 'smail.'
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In the lord of the rings the conflict is that Sauron wants to rule middle earth and no single army is strong enough to go up against him, the time of the elves is at its end and the elves are leaving. Sauron wants the one ring back that was taken from him when he was defeated the first time. In the Hobbit the conflict is that the Dwarves want the gold and their mountain back, which Smaug has taken from the Dwarves. So they set off on a quest to steal the gold back. So they hire Bilbo as a theif.
The Individuated Hobbit was created in 1979-09.
what does mantelpiece mean in the hobbit
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