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Who Is Bilbo Baggins In The Hobbit

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Bilbo Baggins is introduced as just a normal hobbit smoking a pipe on his front porch, when suddenly an old man appears on his doorstep. Bilbo is perplexed as to what an old man with a cloak and staff is doing in his house. After the queer man introduces himself, Bilbo recognizes him as the wizard Gandalf, who has presented amazing fireworks on special holidays in Hobbiton, where the hobbits live. (Tolkien 5-9)
When Gandalf asks if Bilbo would be interested in going on an adventure, Bilbo says no. He invites the wizard to come over for tea sometime but only so he doesn’t seem rude. In reality, he wants nothing to do with Gandalf and his adventures. (Tolkien 6-9)
When the doorbell rings the next afternoon, Bilbo assumes it is Gandalf. Suprisingly, …show more content…

He asks Gollum, “What have I got in my pocket?” referring to the ring he had found. Gollum can’t guess the right answer. (Tolkien 87-88)
Since he doesn’t like that Bilbo won, he goes to his island in the middle of the lake to get his “precious,” a golden ring that makes its wearer invisible. (Tolkien 89-90)
Gollum doesn’t find it for one very simple reason: that the ring is the same ring that Bilbo had found. Gollum suspects the hobbit of stealing it and runs at him, angry. Bilbo luckily happens to slip on the ring. (Tolkien 91-92)
Gollum can’t see him anymore, so he assumes that Bilbo is ahead of him. The hobbit quietly follows Gollum to the exit. (Tolkien 94-95)
Goblins are crowded around the exit, so Gollum comes to a halt. Bilbo leaps over him, runs past the goblins, and just barely squeezes through the door and makes his escape. (Tolkien 95-99)
Still invisible, Bilbo discovers that he has made it to the other side of the Misty Mountains. The tunnels took him all the way through the range. (Tolkien 100)
He soon finds Gandalf and the dwarves debating whether or not they should leave without him. (Tolkien 101-102)
Bilbo appears in front of them and explains his adventure. However, he doesn’t mention the ring and how it helped him. (Tolkien …show more content…

After being notified, the goblins arrive. (Tolkien 111)
Gandalf attacks the Wargs. Just then, the Lord of the Eagles sees the company’s predicament. (Tolkien 113-114)
With several other eagles, he picks up the travelers, and flies them to safety. (Tolkien 118-121)
The eagles are fortunately friends of Gandalf. They provide food and shelter for Bilbo, the dwarves, and Gandalf until they are ready to resume their journey. (Tolkien 121-122)
Gandalf disappoints the company by teeling them that he must leave. However, he says that he’ll stay around long enough to help them find food and ponies to make it through Mirkwood, the last obsticle standing between them and the Lonely Mountain where Smaug resides. (Tolkien 125)
He leads them to the house of Beorn, a skin-changer who has a great wooden house in the middle of the woods outside Mirkwood. In order not to startle Beorn, Gandalf cleverly takes the dwarves to Beorn’s house a few at a time. (Tolkien 128-136)
He tells the skin-changer the story of their adventure in the mountain. Beorn is amused because he hates goblins, as goblins are enimies of nature. (Tolkien 130-137)
Beorn offers the company much-needed food and shelter. Tolkien

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