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Konteksty Pedagogiczne, 2018 This article focuses on the dragon character in literature, taking Tol-kien’s Hobbit as an example while employing a pedagogical perspective. The dra-gon, as the antagonist, is a recurring motif in literary fiction, especially in fantasy, and together ...
Anna Hyla
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Framing audience prefigurations of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The roles of fandom, politics and idealised intertexts [PDF]
, 2014 Audiences for blockbuster event-film sequels and adaptations often formulate highly developed expectations, motivations, understandings and opinions well before the films are released.
Davis, Charles H. +3 more
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Wombs, Wizards, and Wisdom: Bilbo's Journey from Childhood in _The Hobbit_ [PDF]
, 2020 In The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien constructs middle-aged Bilbo Baggins as a sheltered and emotionally immature ‘child’ during the opening chapters before tracing his development into an autonomous, self-aware adult as the tale progresses.
Collins, Rory W.
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Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.How do we accurately measure mind wandering? This review compares five methods: from self‐reports (prone to bias) to brain scans (precise but expensive). No single method captures all aspects, so we propose the MAMW framework—a unified approach combining strengths of each technique.
Sholeh Nazari +2 more
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Grasping Objects From the Floor in Assistive Robotics: Real World Implications and Lessons Learned
IEEE Access, 2019 This paper presents a system enabling a mobile robot to autonomously pick-up objects a human is pointing at from the floor. The system does not require object models and is designed to grasp unknown objects.
Paloma De La Puente +4 more
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The Relegation of Bilbo: The Narrative Diminishment of Mr. Bilbo Baggins Across J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium [PDF]
, 2017 Despite the relative clarity with which Bilbo was conceptualized and written, Bilbo’s role within the Legendarium at large – and even his role within his own text, The Hobbit – has proved definitively lacking.
Stein, Katherine
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Screen Tourism: Worlds Within the Screen, Moving the Economy
International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT The number of tourists traveling to attractions and destinations they had seen on screen continues to increase. Screen tourism is a marketing tool that encourages tourism demand as well as promotes economic development, with governments and destination marketing organizations attracting tourists through conventional and digital media. However,
Yunkyoung Jo +3 more
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Fafnir, 2018 Characters are important for the audience reception of films, but little empirical research on actual audiences has been conducted on the topic of character reception. Are characters important for all audiences, and if not, what are the possible reasons
Tanja Välisalo
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Hobbits?...And what may they be? [PDF]
, 2017 Hobbits…And what may they be? This study considers the possible origin of the word ‘hobbit’ on the eightieth anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Tolkien’s book - The Hobbit.
Flowers, Michael
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The Homo floresiensis Controversy
Hayati Journal of Biosciences, 2007 A completely new and unexpected quasi human species, Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the Hobbit, was described in 2004 from Liang Bua, a cave in Flores. Like many important new contributions to the human fossil record in the past, many commentators refused ...
COLIN GROVES
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