Study Guide: The Hobbit Workbook

This is a literature study guide for the book titled The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien. In this book a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is persuaded to leave his home in the Shire and embark on an adventure.

The guide is designed for 6th-9th grade students; it contains:

• background information
• a short biography of J. R. R. Tolkien
• vocabulary activities
• discussion questions
• literature analyses: plants, notable nouns/vivid verbs, point of view, similes/personification, riddle, idiom, critical thinking, onomatopoeia, poetry, alliteration, comparative and superlative adjectives, story mountain, effect/cause, metaphor, theme, summarizing, protagonist/antagonist
• extension activities
• games, a craft, and a recipe
• map work
• web links
• Tolkien Trivia
• Bible/personal applications
• a crossword puzzle
• writing activities
• an answer key
• activities that are able to be used as assessments

In this workbook version of the guide, space is provided for students to write all of the answers.

This guide is also available in interactive format:

Study Guide: The Hobbit Interactive

In the interactive format, space is not provided for students to write all of the answers.

• NOTE: The content of the guide in interactive format and in workbook format is the same; spacing is the only difference.