Question

Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring. Twelve more years passed. Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End; but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his "coming of age”. . . Which detail in the excerpt identifies it as fantasy

Answer 1

The detail in the excerpt that identifies it as a fantasy is the sentence: Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit.

This shows fantasy as eleventy-one (111) is not an age most humans reach and they refrence Bilbo is a hobbit.

Answer 2

The detail that identifies it as fantasy is Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111.

Explanation:

This novel by J.R.R. Tolkien has repetitive elements that define it as a fantasy novel such imagined worlds, mythical creatures and the supernatural. The fact that Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one has these elements Bilbo belongs to the hobbits community which are mythical and fantastic creatures besides the age he is about to reach is unnatural even for a Hobbit.