The Hobbit

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit that enjoys a peaceful lifestyle. Hobbits like to stay indoors and smoke their pipes and they do not like socialize. Hobbits do not like adventure or socializing with unfamiliar creatures. When he was asked to go on the adventure with the dwarves, Bilbo was taken out of his comfort zone and into the world of a hero. Bilbo goes from hobbit to a hero when he helps the dwarves get out of jail, put everyone in a barrel ,and fights spiders.

Bilbo Baggins a hobbit who was very rich and very peculiar. He lived in Bad End, the greatest place in Shire. He has no close friends except Frodo, his cousin who was adopted as his heir. Bilbo announced that he would hold a party to celebrate his 111 birthday. He invited one hundred and forty four guests. There was also Gandalf the Wizard, whose fame in the Shire was due mainly to his skill with fires, smokes, and lights. The day finally came. It was the party started with many entertainments. The hobbits were having fun until it came to Bilbo’s speech. He welcomed his forty four guests to his party and announced unexpected thing. He said that he was leaving and he was gone in a blink of an eye. The guests are speechless as the stood still in silent. While he was making his speech, he had been fingering the golden ring in his pocket and slipped it on. He was planning to leave and to have a permanent holiday. He left an envelope with the ring inside to Gandalf to give it for his cousin, Frodo. Frodo rushed back to Bag End and he

Bilbo encountered Gollum in a cave located in the depths of the Misty Mountains near Goblin-town. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit of the River-folk. He wasn’t just a test, but also an enemy of Bilbo. Gollum had a riddle battle with Bilbo, which both Bilbo and Gollum would have to solve alternatively. If Bilbo wins, Gollum would tell him the way out. Prior to that, Bilbo obtained the Ring; this Ring helps Bilbo escape from Gollum. Gollum called the Ring his “birthday present.” Gollum realizes that Bilbo stole the ring, and would get it back at any cost. Bilbo didn’t know what the ring did until he wore it, it made him invisible. Bilbo quickly escaped and found the way out. But he didn’t realize there were goblins. Bilbo also eluded them, but little he knew, the dwarves were there too. He finally reunited with the dwarves and Gandalf; they were so pleased to see he was alive. When Bilbo told his mates about how him being a young hobbit, succeeded to escape Gollum. Everyone began to praise him. The dwarves started to respect him a great deal more after he said to them that he dodged all the guards and escaped Gollum. This test showed Bilbo how

After this they start traveling once again. When they approach Misty Mountains, they take shelter in a cave to let the storm overhead pass. While they are waiting for the storm to pass they get captured by the Great Goblin but can escape thanks to Gandalf. On their way out, Bilbo trips and loses his consciousness. When he wakes up he tries to make his way out of the cave once again, but he finds a ring that he eventually pockets. After he pocketed the ring he encounters Gollum, who is a murderous creature who kills and eats goblins and those who wonder in the caves. During this encounter Bilbo exchanges riddles with Gollum and even gives Gollum an easy riddle to buy himself more time to think of a trickier riddle. This shows that he is so confident that he will be able to answer Gollum’s next

The ring makes him invisible, but he doesn’t know that yet. He then comes across a little shriveled up hobbit named Gollum. He knows the way out of the cave so he made a bet with Bilbo. If you can beat me in a game of riddles I will show you the way out, but if I win I get to eat you. Bilbo bravely accepts his challenge. Bilbo then wins the challenge by pure luck. “What have I got in my pocket?” (Tolkein, 78) That was his last riddle that Gollum didn’t get. Gollum gets mad and thinks Bilbo is trying to trick him. He then puts on the ring. Gollum then goes to the exit of the cave unknowingly followed by Bilbo. Bilbo then jumps over Gollum and out the door. He was very brave to face Gollum.

But before he finds out that it is magic, he finds Gollum who challenges Bilbo into a game of riddles, and if Gollum wins he gets to eat Bilbo, but if Bilbo wins Gollum has to show him the way out. Bilbo who eventually wins demands the way out of the cave. But, Gollum who takes the loss bitterly, goes back to his island and tries to find his birthday present and kill Bilbo.

As the story goes on, he develops an understanding of what he is capable of. During the group’s first trial, when he is riding through the uninhabited Lone-lands Bilbo discovers he already misses his hobbit hole. It is raining and a pony runs away with their food leaving them short on supplies. A mysterious light is spotted and Bilbo is sent to investigate. He is courageous and tries to pickpocket a troll.

People use courage all the time. Courage is shown in 9/11 videos with the first responders running into the buildings to save the people suffering, in the military when men and women go fight for the freedom and safety of our country, and sometimes in ordinary people in their everyday lives. In "The Hobbit", J.R.R Tolkien demonstrates how an ordinary person can be very couragous when faced with difficult obstacles. In Bilbo Baggins ordinary world, he lives in a shire called Hobbiton.

Firstly, Bilbo grows bolder and more curious as he begins his adventures. The first stage of a hero’s journey is the Separation, in which the hero leaves his known world, or home, and crosses into the Unknown (Thompson and Harris 7). Bilbo resides in Bag-End, his hobbit-hole, where he lives as a “very respectable [hobbit who]...never had any adventures or did anything unexpected” (Tolkien 2). Bag-End represents Bilbo’s known world, where he lives comfortably and complacently. Next, Bilbo undergoes the first step of the hero’s journey, the Call, which occurs when the protagonist is called to adventure (Thompson and Harris 8). Bilbo is not particularly brave or gifted, but when Gandalf chooses him to be the burglar

Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist of The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins has curly brown hair and thick leathery feet. He was fat in the stomach and was half the height of an adult. He likes having multiple meals a day, and snacks. Bilbo also had long clever fingers. Bilbo is a very respectable individual. He enjoyed staying at home, Bilbo doing something unexpected was unheard of. Before the adventure, he thought highly of his neighbor's opinion about him. When Gandalf chose Bilbo the other dwarves thought that he was unfit for the job. The dwarves did not

Soon later in the book Bilbo starts to do thing to the attacking for, as it chapters progress in the book, that is after the group escape from the goblins, Bilbo get knock in the head while he was being carried in the getaway thus leaving him alone in the dark. As he wake up alone trying to look for an escape route him comes across a ring and keeps it; soon after he is found by gollum, and they booth play a game of riddles, as bilbo try his hard to not lose to gollum so he won't get eaten. Gollum trys to cheat his way in by looking for the ring, soon after he discovers it's been

He keeps everything to himself and has a low sense of confidence and wisdom of such any undertaking venture. Until 13 dwarves and a wizard came long, Bilbo was ruzed into helping the dwarves asset their gold over the brimming mountains abducted by a fire- breathing dragon, Smaug. Throughout their march to the Lonely Mountains, the dwarves and hobbit were interrogated with spiders, flies, trolls, goblins, elves and Lake men. Through the first part of the campaign, the dwarves were tramping through a lightness, dungeon-like tunnels with bilbo being hoisted up by Dori. On spur of moment, Bilbo was grappled from behind and no one knew who or what it was. The hobbit fell and bowled over a boulder making him unconscious. Furthermore into the dim tunnels Bilbo has awaken, and was challenged to exchange riddles with a creature that threatened to devour him if he does not answer his riddles correctly. Small slimy creature, no one knew where it derived from. Golum was its name. Throughout the riddles, Bilbo obtained assurance from not getting eaten by

After beginning his adventure, Bilbo faces one of his most difficult challenges in The Hobbit when Bilbo Baggins faces the Inmost cave stage he fights with Gollum in the cave. Holmes describes the Inmost Cave as “the abyss. This is the greatest challenge that faces the hero” (Holmes). This stage is literally in a dark cave, one that provides a morally challenging and terrifying experience for Bilbo. In the cave, he deals with the Gollum and finds the Ring, changing his character forever. Only once he suffers through his riddle battle with Gollum, he recovers The Ring, a ring that grants its wearer invisibility as they wear the Ring. Bilbo has to deal with a moral dilemma when he must face Gollum and must decide on whether or not to kill Gollum. While in the cave with Gollum, Bilbo put on the Ring, which make him invisible and had to deal with what to do about Gollum in Bilbo’s panic and terrified state: “Bilbo almost stopped breathing, and went stiff himself. He was desperate. He must get away, out of this horrible darkness, while he had any strength left. He must fight. He must stab the foul thing, put its eyes out, kill it. It meant to kill him” (Tolkien 86). He was forced to lose some of his innocent and face the reality of life and death situations. For this difficult battle in the cave, Dorothy Matthews reported in The Psychological Journey of Bilbo Baggins, “In this underground scene he must face an important trial; he must make a decision whose outcome will be a

This earns Bilbo some respect from the dwarves as they begin to realize that he is a beneficial asset to their group. Soon after a threatening thunderstorm occurs which renders Bilbo unconscious in a cave. Later when he awakes, Bilbo finds a ring which he absent-mindedly pockets. Bilbo uses quick-wit and bravery to outsmart Gollum, a creature who lives in the cave, in a game of riddles. Afterwards, when Gollum attempts to kill him, Bilbo uses his new ring to elude the creature by turning invisible and escaping this demonstrates Bilbo's newfound

In the introductory of the novel, Tolkien sets the tone by describing what hobbits are and how they live. There is nothing unordinary about Bilbo, but there is certainly no sign of anyone admiring or looking up to him. This is used to explain how he is just an average man, who can achieve great things later on in life. In a psychology study, by Prof. Philip Zimbardo, at Stanford university, Zimbardo explains how we rarely “…hear about ordinary men and women who have, by circumstance