1937 Hobbit - Sports Histories

1937 Hobbit - Sports History

Physical Education: Sports History

Old Took. Bilbo's grandfather on his mother's side, had a great-granduncle who was long remembered:

".. Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the Goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment."

Choose a sport and create a brief history about a way in which it may have been "invented." Try to capsule the idea in a short paragraph, as Tolkien did. Your story may be realistic or fantasy! Write your finished sports history here.

Služba Dokumenty Google uľahčuje vytváranie, ukladanie a zdieľanie dokumentov, tabuliek a prezentácií online.

B2 Literary Mayhem No.8, THE HOBBIT ..or there and back again!

Dear literary, ehm, Hobbits..

a little story:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and  an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a  hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

 This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only  because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything  unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. 

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours' respect, but he gained-well, you will see whether he  gained anything in the end:

READ MORE HERE 4 OUR NEXT LECTURE (about Bilbo, the Ring and a creature called Gollum)

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHZDM3NDc1YmMtMTA3ZC00ZmM4LWE4OTUtMTAwNzM5MDA3ZTY1

The extract is from the 5th chapter of prof. JRR Tolkien's first book by the name of The Hobbit (1937)

IF YOU'RE ALREADY INTERESTED IN YOUR 'HOBBIT HISTORY':

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14rcfqzqZV9w7OjoNEZirBz6ZG3jY8JulIMZ5Xn1Yyvg/edit?hl=sk

OBSERVE:

http://pblancho.free.fr/index.html

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GOLLUM AND THE RING?

see this movie 

http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=9H09xnhlCQU&feature=mv_sr

Award winning unofficial prequel to The Lord Of The Rings dramatising Aragorn & Gandalf's long search for Gollum directed by British filmmaker Chris Bouchard. Based faithfully on the appendices of the books this is a non-profit, serious homage to the writing of J.R.R Tolkien and the films of Peter Jackson. It was shot on locations in England and Snowdonia with a team of over a hundred people working over the Internet. It took two years to make and was released as a non-profit Internet-only video by agreement with Tolkien Enterprizes. 

B2 Literary Mayhem No.7 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's Comrade

Dear Tom Sawyer's literary gang,

First of all, the deadline for your current homework is Sunday 20.11.2011 (nice date), 23:59 C.E.T. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c6fPSEDPiMOKTzAnnHrINFkOm0nDYl2pG8WgOdLeXM0/edit

the topic of next week is Mark Twain's latest book (we're in 1885), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

the two and a half chapters of which you are going to read here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XLzrjdDJA5gyzk7BuaCMHgk_UuaEWbS4LH7oJiMBUEs/edit

and an advertisement for which we will translate together:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dklEaeN0KI4HdUArGERtpBIsYOnpcvPIUXnBy2-uWvw/edit

and finally

read and listen to the novel online right here:

http://content.loudlit.org/audio/hfinn/pages/01_01_hfinn.htm

or read the NO FEAR version here (I wil ltell about it in the class):

http://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/lit/huckleberry-finn/chapter-1/

B2 Literary Mayhem No.6 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Dear adventurous boys and girls,

Meet Samuel Clemens, alias Tom Sawyer alias Mark Twain

What does he say about himself?

I was born the 30th of November, 1835, in the

almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County,

Missouri. . . . The village contained a hundred 

people and I increased the population by 

1 percent. It is more than many of the best men 

in history could have done for a town.

—The Autobiography of Mark Twain

and what about Tom Sawyer?

translate here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rkBjz3eRUoak3b5tLGF0UBXgI0GGNFy9Auf7T72lon0/edit

and read here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EO149acUEUXsLcvOKApJmYqXt2fP7EUNtlUV0y0fK0U/edit

Literary Mayhem No.5 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Fellow literature lovers,

enjoy your reading for the next week, try to answer the questions for your self:

1891 O.Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray CH1,2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ji1gR7cWSpA6qPB1uNeqJTT14nwJQIKzT1X-gEpGt3k/edit

here you can find the entire short novel: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/WilDori.html

and here it is in many formats, including audio book: http://www.manybooks.net/titles/wildeoscetext94dgray10.html

also delightful is the translation we will start with. Please take a look:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15he30rAcf6JhBbdyNkTWKLE6SitztnRPQurcQX6zgoM/edit

About Dorian Gray:

Wilde published his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, before he reached the height of his fame. The first edition appeared in the summer of 1890in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.It was criticized as scandalous and immoral. Disappointed with its reception, Wilde revised the novel in 1891, adding a preface and six new chapters. The Preface (as Wilde calls it) anticipates some of the criticism that might be leveled at the novel and answers critics who charge The Picture of Dorian Gray with being an immoral tale. It also succinctly sets forth the tenets of Wilde's philosophy of art. 

This attitude was revolutionary in Victorian England, where popular belief held that art was not only a function of morality but also a means of enforcing it. In the Preface, Wilde also cautioned readers against finding meanings "beneath the surface" of art. Part gothic novel, part comedy of manners, part treatise on the relationship between art and morality, The Picture of Dorian Gray continues to present its readers with a puzzle to sort out. There is as likely to be as much disagreement over its meaning now as there was among its Victorian audience, but, as Wilde notes near the end of the Preface, "Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital."

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/context.html

Dorian Gray to play with:

http://www.yayoye.com/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-online-game/8534/

Adaptations, resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

for example

1945 version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNIR-dqoJk8

2009 version with Collin Firth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AAtY8pZ50

P.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_Gray_syndrome