Would you go on the adventure?

[Renae]

Donna wrote: "Hell no. Adventures are nasty, uncomfortable things...make you late for breakfast. But...good morning to you! (Send me a postcard; I'd love to read about it)."

I love your response.

[Nicole]

I'm a go.. when do we leave?

[Renae]

After reading the book you have to be made of something mighty strong to last the entire adventure. While adventure seems so tantalizing I am not keen on lingering at death's door. Frodo lingered at deaths door way too many times. I am now on the second book of the Lord of the Rings series. I say even with more vigor no way.

[Priya]

What's the fun in adventure if there are no perils involved? So bring on the goblins, trolls, orcs and wargs; bring on the dragon. And watch me slay them all with the swish and slash of my sword that glows in the dark....btw, when do we leave??!!

[Gary]

As a Hobbit, I'd say no, but as a bored human, sure I'll go. Adventures have a way of changing you. Mine have changed me for the better, although they were nothing like Bilbo's.

[David]

Would be well up for the adventure! But I'd need to ask the wife first ;)

Not sure Gandalf would be impressed with that response!

[Vishal]

Adventure! Who said it?
anyone it may be.
i am going on a adventure!

[Eliza Windholz]

I remember the first time I read "The Hobbit" asking myself this question and realizing the answer was absolutely yes. That is just my particular approach to life in general although I have learned to calculate which adventures to take on and which aren't for me. Overall though it's a life I have little regrets over. These days though the answer for adventure opportunitues depends on if my husband and pets can also go and if we would still have a home and jobs when we return.

[Erin]

Johanna ღ♣✽Hobbit & Proud✽♣ღ wrote: "Modi wrote: "If I remember correctly (it's been a while since I read The Hobbit) they were huge. Big enough to wrap up a dwarf apparently. Was that in the Hobbit movie? By the way, what's an "atter..."

Thanks so much Johanna for the link to World Wide Words. What a great resource! I have always loved words and still find myself reading a dictionary for fun! LOL!

[Lucy]

I so would i mean it would be AMAZING

[Bjarne]

NO ! I would absolutely refuse to go ! I'll stay in my cosy hole and read the book one more time !

[Bjarne]

Devero wrote: "Rifle?
For sure.
And a bazooka too, for the dragon!"

Why not send out an armed drone, you spoilsport ?

[Will]

I suppose the harder question is ... if you were a hobbit would you have on the adventure?

I've always thought that hobbits were a metaphor for children having adventures in an adult world. So in effect we are asking if you would have gone an the adventure with a group of older children if you were, say, 12 years old.

Not quite so easy, perhaps.

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Absolutely! I mean, even if you wouldn't know what was in store, or when/if you would come home, it is so cool to be in the company of thirteen dwarves (not to mention a famous wizard). Why not???

[[deleted user]]

YOLO

[Will]

Okay, I'm an old fart. I had to google it. YOLO = You Only Live Once.

Which could also be a very good reason for not going on the adventure...

[Christopher]

I listened to an interview with Robert Jordan, the author of the majority of the Wheel of Time series, a while ago, and he said something that I found very interesting and has greatly affected the perspective from which I both write and read.

He was speaking to the fact that in most epic fantasy novels, there is some wizard, hero, knight, "fill in the blank" that comes along, finds an unsuspecting person that becomes the ultimate, epic hero and that person just willingly goes along with what that person has in task for them. This isn't reality. Now I know none of us read fantasy for reality, but I do want believable in what I read, given the parameters of the world in which the book is set. And that is why Rand, the main character in the Wheel of Time series is so reluctant to be the hero.

That being said, I really don't know if I would go. I would like to say yes, but in reality, who knows? Depends on the situation and where I am at in life. 10 years ago-hell ya without a second thought. Now with a wife and two kids, probably not. If I were Bilbo, IDK.

Christopher Patterson