Learn English with The Hobbit

• ☐ ☐ ☐ an elf [n] - a tall thin humanlike creature that lives for 1000 years [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a goblin [n] - a dwarf-like, ugly, violent creature [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a cleaver [n] - a heavy knife used to cut (chop) meat [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a blade [n] - a sword or knife
• ☐ ☐ ☐ forged [v] - created, made (of metal)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ laddie [n] - boy
• ☐ ☐ ☐ great deeds [n] - achievements, successful actions
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a letter opener [n] - a small dull knife used to open letters [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ come by (something) [phv] - find, acquire (something)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a hoard [n] - a large collection of treasure or gold
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a legacy [n] - one's possessions given by one generation of a family to the next
• ☐ ☐ ☐ stubbornness [n] - not changing one's opinion about something
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a downfall [n] - a sudden decline in strength or importance
• ☐ ☐ ☐ an artifact [n] - an important item made long ago
• ☐ ☐ ☐ runes [n] - old letters or writing [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ mid-summer's eve [n] - the longest day of the year in the middle of summer
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a crescent moon [n] - when only a small piece of the moon is visible [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ fate [n] - someone's unavoidable future
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a thrush [n] - a type of bird [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a keyhole [n] - the hole in which you put a key [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ ill news [n] - bad news, bad luck
• ☐ ☐ ☐ deem [v] - think, consider

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

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Bilbo	Gandalf	Thorin	Elrond

• Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves have arrived in Rivendell.
• Rivendell is an elf city and the home of Elrond.
• Elrond is the Lord of the elf city of Rivendell. He is an expert in many languages and types of writing.
• Thorin has a map to Erebor with writing that only Elrond can read.
• Erebor was the home of the dwarves until Smaug the dragon took it from them. It is in the Lonely Mountain.

1. What meal will they eat together?
   Breakfast
   Lunch
   Dinner
   
   
2. What does Elrond say about the sword Orcrist?
   It is very small.
   It is a goblin killer.
   It is a famous sword.
   It was made by elves.
   It was made 200 years ago.
   It was the sword of a king.
   It was used in a famous battle.
   
   
3. What does Elrond say about the sword Glamdring?
   It is very small.
   It is a goblin killer.
   It is a famous sword.
   It was made by elves.
   It was made 200 years ago.
   It was the sword of a king.
   It was used in a famous battle.
   
   
4. What does Balin say about Bilbo's sword?
   It is very small.
   It is a goblin killer.
   It is a famous sword.
   It was made by elves.
   It was made 200 years ago.
   It was the sword of a king.
   It was used in a famous battle.
   
   
5. Why does Gandalf insist that Thorin show the map to Elrond?
   Elrond can be trusted.
   Only Elrond can read the map.
   Elrond knows how to enter the mountain.
   Only Elrond knows where Erebor is located.
   
   
6. Why does Gandalf say they are examining the map.
   Academic interest
   To learn how to read dwarvish
   To learn how to enter the mountain
   
   
7. What type of writing is on the map?
   Durin's letters
   Elvish writing
   Moon runes
   
   
8. What is special about this type of writing?
   It is almost always invisible.
   It can only be read by dwarves.
   It can only be read in special moonlight.
   It gives magic powers to whoever reads it.
   It can only be read by a family member of the writer.
   
   
9. When was the map made?
   200 years ago
   When the dragon was born
   Before the dwarves built Erebor
   
   
10. What is Durin's Day?
    The Dwarves' New Year
    The first day of summer
    The day that the dragon came to the mountain
    
    
11. How can the door to the mountain be opened?
    One must be holding the map.
    One must read the runes on the map.
    One must be standing at exactly the right spot.
    One must be at the door at exactly the right time.
    
    
12. What does Elrond say about entering the mountain?
    It is unwise.
    It is dangerous.
    It is impossible.
    It is the dwarves' destiny.
    
    

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Directions: Write sentences about the video clip using the words given. You can change the word form or add words, but you cannot change the word order. Use a present time frame (tense).
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Instrucciones: Escriba oraciones sobre el videoclip usando las palabras dadas. Puede cambiar la forma de la palabra o agregar palabras, pero no puede cambiar el orden de las palabras. Usa el tiempo presente.

Instrucciones: Escribe oraciones sobre el videoclip usando las palabras dadas. Puede cambiar la forma de las palabras o agregar palabras, pero no puede cambiar el orden de las palabras. Usa tiempo presente.

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Elrond / tell / Thorin / sword / they / find

Elrond tells Thorin about the swords (that) they found.

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Balin / question / whether / Bilbo / blade / even / sword

Balin questions whether Bilbo's blade is even a sword.

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Gandalf / explain / where / sword / find

Gandalf explains where the swords were found.

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Despite / Thorin / misgiving / Gandalf / insist / he / show / Elrond / map

Despite Thorin's misgivings, Gandalf insists (that) he show Elrond the map.

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Gandalf / complain / stubbornness / dwarf

Gandalf complains about the stubbornness of dwarves.

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Elrond / ask / why / they / interest / map

Elrond asks why they are interested in the map.

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Elrond / tell / them / there / moon / rune / map

Elrond tells them (that) there are moon runes on the map.

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moon / rune / can / only / read / specific / night / under / specific / moon / light

Moon runes can only be read on a specific night under specific moon light.

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rune / write / 200 / year / ago

The runes were written 200 years ago.

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Elrond / think / dwarf / be / mean / come / Rivendell / this / day

Elrond thinks (that) the dwarves were meant to come to Rivendell on this day.

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They / must / enter / mountain / Durin / day

They must enter the mountain on Durin's Day.

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Thorin / worry / because / Durin / day / soon / upon / them

Thorin is worried because Durin's Day will soon be upon them.

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open / door / they / must / stand / right / spot / right / time

(In order) To open the door, they must be standing in the right spot at the right time.

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Elrond / think / it / unwise / enter / mountain

Elrond thinks (that) it is unwise to enter the mountain.

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The text below is from the [ original novel ]. You can also read a [ shortened version ] of the novel.

1. Which parts of the video are the same as the novel?
2. Which parts of the video are different from the novel?
3. Which parts of the novel are not in the video?

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The master of the house was an elf-friend—one of those people whose fathers came into the strange stories before the beginning of History, the wars of the evil goblins and the elves and the first men in the North. In those days of our tale there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors, and Elrond the master of the house was their chief.

He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer. He comes into many tales, but his part in the story of Bilbo's great adventure is only a small one, though important, as you will see, if we ever get to the end of it. His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley.

I wish I had time to tell you even a few of the tales or one or two of the songs that they heard in that house. All of them, the ponies as well, grew refreshed and strong in a few days there. Their clothes were mended as well as their bruises, their tempers and their hopes. Their bags were filled with food and provisions light to carry but strong to bring them over the mountain passes. Their plans were improved with the best advice. So the time came to midsummer eve, and they were to go on again with the early sun on midsummer morning.

Elrond knew all about runes of every kind. That day he looked at the swords they had brought from the trolls' lair, and he said: "These are not troll-make. They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago. This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin-cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade. This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foe-hammer that the king of Gondolin once wore. Keep them well!"

"Whence did the trolls get them, I wonder?" said Thorin looking at his swordwith new interest.

"I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains. I have heard that there are still forgotten treasures of old to be found in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria, since the dwarf and goblin war."

Thorin pondered these words. "I will keep this sword in honour," he said. "May it soon cleave goblins once again!"

"A wish that is likely to be granted soon enough in the mountains!" said Elrond. "But show me now your map!"

He took it and gazed long at it, and he shook his head; for if he did not altogether approve of dwarves and their love of gold, he hated dragons and their cruel wickedness, and he grieved to remember the ruin of the town of Dale and its merry bells, and the burned banks of the bright River Running. The moon was shining in a broad silver crescent. He held up the map and the white light shone through it. "What is this?" he said. "There are moon-letters here, beside the plain runes which say ‘five feet high the door and three may walk abreast.'"

"What are moon-letters?" asked the hobbit full of excitement. He loved maps, as I have told you before; and he also liked runes and letters and cunning handwriting, though when he wrote himself it was a bit thin and spidery.

"Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them," said Elrond, "not when you look straight at them. They can only be seen when the moon shines behind them, and what is more, with the more cunning sort it must be a moon of the same shape and season as the day when they were written. The dwarves invented them and wrote them with silver pens, as your friends could tell you.

These must have been written on a midsummer's eve in a crescent moon, a long while ago."

"What do they say?" asked Gandalf and Thorin together, a bit vexed perhaps that even Elrond should have found this out first, though really there had not been a chance before, and there would not have been another until goodness' knows when.

"Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks," read Elrond, "and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole."

"Durin, Durin!" said Thorin. "He was the father of the fathers of the eldest race of Dwarves, the Longbeards, and my first ancestor: I am his heir."

"Then what is Durin's Day?" asked Elrond.

"The first day of the dwarves' New Year," said Thorin, "is as all should know the first day of the last moon of Autumn on the threshold of Winter. We still call it Durin's Day when the last moon of Autumn and the sun are in the sky together. But this will not help us much, I fear, for it passes our skill in these days to guess when such a time will come again."

"That remains to be seen," said Gandalf. "Is there any more writing?"

"None to be seen by this moon," said Elrond, and he gave the map back to Thorin; and then they went down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.

The next morning was a midsummer's morning as fair and fresh as could be dreamed: blue sky and never a cloud, and the sun dancing on the water. Now they rode away amid songs of farewell and good speed, with their hearts ready for more adventure, and with a knowledge of the road they must follow over the Misty Mountains to the land beyond.

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1. The book (but not the movie) suggests why the trolls had the two famous swords in their hoard. How do you think the trolls came by these swords?
2. Balin foreshadows some of Bilbo's future deeds when he talks about his unimpressive sword. What great deeds do you think Bilbo will accomplish with his sword? What could be a good name for his sword?
3. Why is Thorin so hesitant to show the map to Elrond? Why do you think the dwarves are so distrustful of elves in general?
4. Why do you think Gandalf lies to Elrond about their purpose (academic interest)? Why does Elrond think it is unwise to go to the mountain?
5. Only Elrond (an elf) can read the dwarvish writing on the map. What might be the reason for this?
6. Can you summarize all the steps the dwarves must follow in order to enter the mountain? (try using these words: Durin's Day, exactly, grey stone, key hole, key, knock, last light, spot, thrush, time )
7. What type of weapon would you want if you were part of this adventure?