Then, as Cyrus tries to disengage from the football team and pursue interests, he observes some changes in his football friends’ behaviors.

First, he struggles with reading comprehension. At school, Cyrus also deals with another set of challenges. But Cyrus gets some motivation to stand up for himself and his desires when a dog is abandoned at the fire station (just like Cyrus was).Ĭyrus’s father sends to dog to a shelter, warning him not to get attached - even though Cyrus already is. Although he plays football for his school team, he does not enjoy it, and would much rather be doing something else, but he’s afraid to let his dad (and the town that knows him to be an Olson) down.

A mix of old and new faces traversed Middle Earth over Peter Jackson’s prequel trilogy.Summary: Brave Like That by Lindsey StoddardĬyrus Olson does not think he’s “brave like that.” He’s not brave like his adoptive firefighter father who was also a star football player in his day. The results were mixed, as was the reception, but the cast of The Hobbit films was as fantastic as the one for Rings. No longer was it a mostly self-contained children’s story for film, it had to be a prequel to a great trilogy, ready to offer comparable thrills and set pieces to what came before. Hollywood’s timing being what it is, Rings made it onto the silver screen first, and was such a runaway success that it meant more changes to The Hobbit when it took its turn in the movies. The Lord of the Rings made The Hobbit into an integral part of Tolkien’s cycle of tales, and its writing necessitated changes to The Hobbit’s text to bring it more fully into the fold. Still, it was a children’s book that stood on its own until Tolkien fulfilled his publisher’s hopes for a sequel. It was related, certainly Elrond Half-elven was borrowed from the then-unpublished Silmarillion, and a few bits and bobs from the long history of Middle Earth were alluded to. The Hobbit was never meant to be part of J.R.R.

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