Sarah’s Comments (group member since Nov 06, 2012)

Sarah’s comments from the Hobbit Q&A with Sarah Arthur group.

Maybe someday! Right now I'm making the turn toward fiction of my own, starting with my debut YA fantasy book ONCE A QUEEN (2023), followed by two sequels.

Okay, you've been asking, so I'm working on my response. In the meantime, thoughts from the rest of you who have seen it?

That is a marvelous quote--thanks! Of course it will be several years before we see how Peter Jackson has interpreted the end of The Hobbit (the downside of a breaking into three parts), but in the meantime, for all of Bilbo's reliance on "luck," we get the sense that there's a larger hand at work, upholding the tale Bilbo finds himself in. As is the case for all of us!

Thanks, Amy! I had never made the connection before between Gollum's loss of the ring and Bilbo's dream...beautiful. I'll have to go back and read that scene again with new eyes. It makes me think of C. S. Lewis's comment, "In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still I who see." I would say, in reading AND discussing literature. Thank you!

Whenever someone yells "The Eagles are coming!" anywhere in LOTR and The Hobbit, you know something fantabulous is about to happen. These are moments when we catch glimpses of grace, the "eucatastrophe" as Tolkien called it: the sudden turn of the tide that reveals the good power at work in Middle-earth. What's your favorite scene?