Yet much of the praise for these works is rooted in their sweeping themes ... the very first part of Hobbit-lore – the map to the Lonely Mountain, carried by Thorin Oakenshield.

Later in "The Hobbit," Thorin would lose Orcrist when he was captured ... (Antiwar sentiment is a large theme of Tolkien's "The Hobbit," so there is certainly an irony in the weapon fetish that ...