The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit is one of these fundamental pieces of literature becomes even more important in our contemporary time through its transition into a film, and the marks to beginning of modern films tradition of adapting literature for the big screen. Many will only know The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings for what they’ve seen in the movie theater but never the less it illustrates a fundamental structure that exists in almost every piece of literature, story, film, or otherwise in the west, the idea of the hero’s journey. Now specifying the west is important I believe because you can argue and push on to eastern/other works the idea of a hero’s journey and it either clicks or doesn’t. There are fundamental things that exist in most works when dealing with a hero but some are looser than others. Obviously, The Hobbit is one of the best reflections of the hero’s journey, without looking back to the Greek classics and others, of course, J. R. R. Tolkien gives an amazing depiction of such a structure.