The Hobbit Final Project: Home
By: Riley Armstrong
Location 1: Rivendell
Rivendell is referred to in the Hobbit as the "Last Homely House". This is said because it is the last place that anyone nice is found for quite a while on the journey at hand. The elves are a very peaceful bunch and also tend to be very happy and cheerful. "His house was perfect whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, nor a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley." Rivendell is a vastly large castle like structure that a culture of Elves lives in. Its a place of safety and merriment for the group in the story and it is also the place that Bilbo and the dwarves discover how to enter Erebor. P.41 "Moon letters are rune letters, but you cannot see them." says Elrond, but since the moon is the same that the letters were written, they learn the riddle is "Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole." this is one of the most important parts of the book and this place is important to it since Elrond is one of the few people who can actually read the letters.