The Hobbit Riddle Game

Can You Guess?
Gollum and Bilbo have a riddle CONTEST deep in the underground tunnels of Misty Mountains. Their riddles use clues and hints to describe a specific thing--a mountain, teeth, daisies, dark, eggs, fish, and time.
Choose a common subject and brainstorm as many qualities as you can about it. Then, devise a four-lined to eight-lined riddle using the traits of the item. Try to make your riddle rhyme.

Write your finished riddle bellow:

C1 Literary Mayhem no.8 THE HOBBIT..or there and back again!

Dear literary, ehm, Hobbits..

first of all DO NOT FORGET about your current translation HW, deadline is Wednesday 23.59!

and now a little story:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and 

an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a 

hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

 This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the 

neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only 

because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything 

unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. 

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, found himself doing and saying things altogether 

unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours' respect, but he gained-well, you will see whether he 

gained anything in the end:

READ MORE HERE 4 OUR NEXT LECTURE (about Bilbo, the Ring and a creature called Gollum)

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHOGUyNmU1YTktZDI0NS00NTZlLWJmNDUtY2U2ZDk5MWJmZGYz

The extract is from the 5th chapter of prof. JRR Tolkien's first book by the name of The Hobbit (1937)

OBSERVE:

http://pblancho.free.fr/index.html

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GOLLUM AND THE RING?

see this movie 

http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=9H09xnhlCQU&feature=mv_sr

Award winning unofficial prequel to The Lord Of The Rings dramatising Aragorn & Gandalf's long search for Gollum directed by British filmmaker Chris Bouchard. Based faithfully on the appendices of the books this is a non-profit, serious homage to the writing of J.R.R Tolkien and the films of Peter Jackson. It was shot on locations in England and Snowdonia with a team of over a hundred people working over the Internet. It took two years to make and was released as a non-profit Internet-only video by agreement with Tolkien Enterprizes. 

C1 Literary Mayhem No.7, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's Comrade

Dear Tom Sawyer's literary gang,

the topic of next week is Mark Twain's latest book (we're in 1885), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

the three and a half chapters of which you are going to read here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15WAGQ1gBxj3IVd84rxgpaoifDuaDCQMrVLhdEO-yEKM/edit

and an advertisement for which you will translate together:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dklEaeN0KI4HdUArGERtpBIsYOnpcvPIUXnBy2-uWvw/edit

and finally

read and listen to the novel online right here:

http://content.loudlit.org/audio/hfinn/pages/01_01_hfinn.htm

or read the NO FEAR version here (I wil ltell about it in the class):

http://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/lit/huckleberry-finn/chapter-1/

C1 Literary Mayhem No.6 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Fellow literature lovers,

enjoy your reading for the next week, try to answer the questions for your self:

1891 O.Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray CH1,2,9

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1txDESgI-brHY5pnGkTCXlPd8O67GM4e-JBDAKI4Okm8/edit

here you can find the entire short novel: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/WilDori.html

and here it is in many formats, including audio book: http://www.manybooks.net/titles/wildeoscetext94dgray10.html

also delightful is the translation we will start with. Please take a look:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15he30rAcf6JhBbdyNkTWKLE6SitztnRPQurcQX6zgoM/edit

About Dorian Gray:

Wilde published his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, before he reached the height of his fame. The first edition appeared in the summer of 1890in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.It was criticized as scandalous and immoral. Disappointed with its reception, Wilde revised the novel in 1891, adding a preface and six new chapters. The Preface (as Wilde calls it) anticipates some of the criticism that might be leveled at the novel and answers critics who charge The Picture of Dorian Gray with being an immoral tale. It also succinctly sets forth the tenets of Wilde's philosophy of art. 

This attitude was revolutionary in Victorian England, where popular belief held that art was not only a function of morality but also a means of enforcing it. In the Preface, Wilde also cautioned readers against finding meanings "beneath the surface" of art. Part gothic novel, part comedy of manners, part treatise on the relationship between art and morality, The Picture of Dorian Gray continues to present its readers with a puzzle to sort out. There is as likely to be as much disagreement over its meaning now as there was among its Victorian audience, but, as Wilde notes near the end of the Preface, "Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital."

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/context.html

Dorian Gray to play with:

http://www.yayoye.com/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-online-game/8534/

Adaptations, resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

for example

1945 version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNIR-dqoJk8

2009 version with Collin Firth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AAtY8pZ50

P.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_Gray_syndrome