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Tolkien’s primary intended audience for The Hobbit was children. He uses humor to illustrate this. How is this developed throughout? Please help

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Tolkien mainly uses humor through the narrator, bad situations, and the dwarves, and it is mainly used to lighten the mood and set the atmosphere. An example of this is Gandalf's first conversation with Bilbo, wondering “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” “All of them at once,” said Bilbo

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