"Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor."

I believe The Hobbit is a very good example of the hero’s journey, the man in the fairy tale. Granted, the movie only covers a segment of the story, as there is to be three of them, but the entire journey There And Back Again is a very good example. Bilbo starts off a meek hobbit, not wanting adventure, when he meets Gandalf, who encourages him to adventure, and then thrusts him into it as the dwarf feast goes underway. They first go into the unknown, and the first challenge happens, once they start the adventure and meet the giants. They go on through the descent to find and meet goblins in the mountains, where Bilbo hits his abyss in a literal abyss; Gollum is about to kill and eat him, he is deep underground and lost, when he starts running as fast as he can, and figures out the ring he found, Gollum’s precious, renders the wearer invisible. From that point on, after the escape from the goblins and Gollum, Bilbo starts growing, from helping save them from the Wargs, leading through the dark forest, rescuing them from the giant spiders, and breaking them out of the Elven prison, and leads them to The Lonely Mountain. There he goes in and talks to the dragon Smaug, and searching the piles of treasure and finding the Heart of the Mountain. Then, as war is breaking out on the slopes of The Lonely Mountain, he uses the Heart of the Mountain, a trinket of immeasurable wealth, as a bargaining tool to prevent war, and succeeds (in preventing war between dwarves and elves & men), and then stands his ground and fights in the Battle of Five Armies (dwarves, elves, and men against goblins and wargs). He returns to the world of the normal with massive wealth of gold and silver to Bag End after the long journey home.