Os conceitos geográficos em O Hobbit de J. R. R. Tolkien

Abstract

This work was born with the attempt to read Geography from Art, more specifically from the Literature. Therewith, the chosen theoretical and methodological path was that of cultural humanistic geography, as it is an approach that understands the geographic space based on meanings and experiences. The work we used was The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. A story that tells how a small person, a hobbit, accommodated and averse to adventures, takes a journey that will reverberate in the rest of his days, besides to influencing the future of Middle-earth. And it is in elapse of his wanderings that we get to know places, landscapes, regions and territories present in the geographical space imagined by Tolkien. Therefore, we initially developed a brief review of how these spatial concepts have changed throughout the history of Geography and, later, we contextualized how they are revealed in the narrative. Finally, it is evident that Geography is present in all forms of representation of the human being.