In the book "The Hobbit," JRR Tolkien describes hobbits as not the adventuring type. Bilbo Baggins says that to Gandalf the Grey.I'm not the adventuring type.
He wants to go on adventures. And then you've got Bilbo Baggins, who's a hobbit. And essentially, what happens is Gandalf knocks on Bilbo 's door and he's like, ,, hey, what's up?
And as coaches and principals, it's our role to help them overcome that stereotype threat. Now, Bilbo Baggins said, I'm not the adventuring type. But Gandalf the Grey, his coach, was able to help him overcome that stereotype threat and see a new self-identity for himself so that he could go on
about a fto second um and uh and it turned out that uh life the new Woodstock this is uh in bilbow
And then you've got Bilbo Baggins, who's a hobbit. And essentially, what happens is Gandalf knocks on Bilbo 's door and he's like, ,, hey, what's up? How's it going? And Bilbo 's like, ah, I'm having a birthday party.
And essentially, what happens is Gandalf knocks on Bilbo 's door and he's like, ,, hey, what's up? How's it going? And Bilbo 's like, ah, I'm having a birthday party. Leave me alone. And Gandolf the Grey says, "I'd like to invite you on an adventure that I'm arranging." And I remember reading this when I
for my students to come along? And so as the story goes, eventually, Bilbo says yes. And he goes on this adventure.
the road in a snowmobile. You were stuck. So here I am, 19 years old stuck in my mom's house, oh joy! But I wasn't stuck there, because of the Christmas present my sister Susan had given me. And all of a sudden I went to Middle Earth with a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins and I read those books like three times, all four of them and the next week, I couldn't stop reading. And I went back and changed my major at school. You give a kid, when somebody finds that book that gets them, whatever it is, that just pulls them in and won't let them
That's the story of "The Hobbit." But with that being said, there's a lot more to it than a lot of us want to retell. For example, in that first scene, when Gandalf the Grey knocks on Bilbo Baggins's door and says, I'm looking for someone to share an adventure that I'm arranging, he follows up with, "it's very difficult to find anyone." And what's more is Bilbo responds, "I should think so."
For example, in that first scene, when Gandalf the Grey knocks on Bilbo Baggins's door and says, I'm looking for someone to share an adventure that I'm arranging, he follows up with, "it's very difficult to find anyone." And what's more is Bilbo responds, "I should think so." He tells them that we're plain people, we don't like going on adventures.
up on the back of a motorcycle and my dad actually had to build this harness, he had a custom-built harness to hold me on the bike, 'cause I was such a nerd I would read on his back. And then I'm like, what's gonna happen with Frodo and Bilbo ? And I would sort of start to fly off. Aisha Tyler: So, um, sort of to keep me from death by science fiction, he had to, he had, he had this thing he would strap me to his back so I could read on his back. So,