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=The King's Fifth= THE KING'S FIFTH - Novel Study

In this deeply affecting novel Scott O'Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors -- a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Ruthless they may have been, these steel-helmeted you men of Spain, but they lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.

== = = = = = = =THE HOBBIT - Novel Study= The Hobbit - Novel Study

The Hobbit’s plot and characters combined the ancient heroic Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian epics Tolkien studied with the middle-class rural England in which he lived. In many ways, the novel’s charm and humor lie in transplanting a simple, pastoral Englishman of the 1930s into a heroic medieval setting. Tolkien acknowledged that his hero, Bilbo Baggins, was patterned on the rural Englishmen of his own time.

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