Who Is Bilbo In The Hobbit

Bilbo’s initial excitement fades away the next night and hopes that all this talk of adventure was simply a dream, but soon realizes that it was no dream is, at once, thrust into a new situation as he leaves his home to join the dwarves on their adventure. At once the hobbit sulks at the fact that they seem to be unprepared, and also at the fact that he missed second breakfast. Here the reader can perceive that Bilbo is very dependent on his creature comforts, such as the multiple meals of the day, is very ill suited for adventuring, thus emphasizing the unlikelihood of the character’s progression into a hero.

In the beginning of the book, Bilbo is very unsure about his abilities and is not self-confident. He had never gone on an adventure before and wasn’t sure of what he was capable of. As the group faces many challenges, his confidence and courage grew, especially when he fends off the giant spiders. As the novel progresses, his courage grows, until they face their final task and Bilbo must go into the tunnels alone. By this point in the book, he has enough courage to do nearly anything. This conflict can be identified as man v. self. At one point in the book, Bilbo “felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach…” (Tolkien 144). This can be connected to the theme of the development of a hero from an ordinary person (or hobbit) because gaining courage is an essential part of becoming a hero. In this novel, there are endless amounts of conflicts, but these are two main conflicts that Bilbo

Bilbo Baggins was a timid hobbit that lived in a small hole and kept to himself. Not until a wizard named Gandalf persuaded him to go on an adventure with himself and a group of dwarves. The dwarves weren’t very fond of Bilbo coming with them, but they would have to put up with it. Bilbo left the luxury of his home to join their quest, not knowing the dangers that lie ahead. But, Bilbo still proved quite a brave hobbit when faced against challenges. He explored a side of himself he had never explored before! Whether is was battling against an army of spiders, or an army of goblins, Bilbo never ceased to exceed the dwarves’ expectations. They eventually gave him respect and honored him. “They knew only

Bilbo, was an ordinary character in his community at the beginning of his journey. He lived in his nice home. “It was a Hobbit Hole, and that means comfort.”(3) He maintained a comfortable lifestyle; a tidy home, one with paneled walls, and tiled floors. Hobbits, were known for being respectable, because they were rich, but also because “they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected.”(3) He was a Baggins. A Baggins never forgot their handkerchief, or their walking stick, or any other of their comfort items when they left home. It was their ordinary calm life. He loved it,

First, Bilbo is selfless. He shows this to be true during many troubles on this journey. As he travels with twelve dwarves and a wizard, who has now left them, through many lands, their journey brings them to Mirkwood, a very large, dark wood with many dangerous and horrifying creatures. In this forest, the company encounters giant spiders and the dwarves are captured and wrapped in spider silk, while Bilbo hides by using a magical ring that he had found earlier in their travels. He then uses his sword to fight the beasts and save his friends. After this, they notice that Thorin, the king of the dwarves, was missing. They searched for him and the path which they had lost before their quarrel with the spiders. Then, Wood elves with bows and swords surrounded them and captured all but Bilbo, for he had once again used his ring to ‘disappear’. The elves took the dwarves to their palace and locked them away in the king’s dungeon, where Thorin was also.

When Gandalf visits Bilbo he invited Bilbo to join him on an adventure, which Bilbo declines since he is deathly afraid of leaving his home. The next day he is visited by dwarves who believe that he can help them on their journey to Lonely Mountain to recover their ancestral treasure. The comments made by the Dwarves made Bilbo realize that Gandalf had said that Bilbo was a burglar. Bilbo eventually agrees to go, but then changes his mind the next morning, but eventually agrees to go again. After Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves had been traveling for a while Bilbo starts to regret coming on the adventure as the landscape gets a lot more hostile. Shortly after this

Meals will not come as often, he is sleeping on the forest floor, and he has a lot of challenges he faces. Bilbo has many allies that help him on his missions, such as all thirteen dwarfs, Gandalf, and Beorn, a shapshifter that help the fifthteen of them with a conflict later in the book. Along with allies, the hobbit faces many enimies during the adventure. Some enimies as small as the spiders, and elves they face to the dragon, smaug. "[The goblins] could not find Bilbo...slipping in and out of the shadow of the trees, running quick and quiet, and keeping out of the sun; so soon they went back grumbling and cursing to gaurd the door.

Bilbo Baggins suffers a huge internal conflict in the novel largely due to his mixed family heritage. Bilbo's father was a Baggins, a family that is known for their laziness and cautious nature. His mother was a Took, a family that is known for being adventurous and causing mischief. Throughout the novel Bilbo is torn between his fathers and mothers heritage . He can’t decide whether to stay safe or to step up and join Gandalf on the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain. This conflict eventually changes Bilbo's outlook on life. By the end of the novel he is no longer lazy and cowardly but strong and heroic. During the journey Bilbo is tested many times.(The Politics of Fantasy: The Hobbit and Fascism) Hobbits are shy, amiable, chubby little creatures who prefer to be left alone in their own company. No nasty adventures or ambiguous entanglements with unpredictable foreigners--just long, lazy mornings and afternoons filled with a succession of tea and seed cakes, watching the hair grow on one’s toes, puffing on one's pipe, and talking of nothing more threatening than tomorrow's weather. Bilbo is dead weight in the beginning of the novel. He only slows the group down and is a liability. Through the guidance of Gandalf and the rest of his friends he become an asset to the crew. Bilbo comes across Gollum in the roots of the mountain. Gollum has a

Him being at his home being comfortable and sitting outside and smoking his pipe at the beginning of the story. The here comes Gandalf with his long staff, and Bilbo greets him and say good morning to him. Gandalf says “What do you mean? 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?” Bilbo says all of them and invites Gandalf to sit down with him. Gandalf says that he does not have time to sit he is looking for someone to go on an adventure. Bilbo tells him he won’t find anyone around these parts. People who live in the Hill are quiet folks they aren’t into adventures. The rising action of the Hobbit is when Gandalf appears and asks Bilbo if he would like to go on an adventure. Bilbo of course at first says no and that hobbit’s do not go on adventures. Bilbo invites Gandalf tea and Gandalf accepts and before he leaves he leaves a sign on Bilbo’s front door. The next day Bilbo up and doing the things he would normally do when he hears a knock at his door. He thought it was Gandalf but it was Dwalin. Then two more dwarves Kili and Fili. Five more dwarves show up Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, and Gloin. Then Gandalf arrives with four more dwarves Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, and Thorin. They all start discussing the adventure, the map, and who was going to do what. Bilbo is excited about the adventure but

Bilbo is tired of doing all the stuff for the dwarves and he thinks they should do some stuff instead of him going.Bilbo thinks they should all go into the secret door with him. and they didn't and that made him a little bit mad. Bilbo is getting tired of all the adventures, he wants to go home to his hobbit hole and doesn't want anything more. Bilbo gets happy that he gets his share of the gold and gets to go home. Bilbo gets home and gets mad that people are auctioning off all his belongings, he has to buy them all back, but he could never find his

Now he had become the real leader in their adventure. He had begun to have ideas and plans of his own.” At this point in the story, Bilbo had fully grown into the burglar that he signed up to be. He managed to overcome many of his fears throughout the adventure while still being the same hobbit he always had been. Bilbo’s experience with the treasure hoard and Smaug was the excitement he was looking for in his life all

As more and more dwarves arrive the following day at Bilbo’s house, he became flustered and confused as to why there were so many dwarves in his home. When Bilbo learns that he is to accompany Gandalf and the dwarves on their adventure, he is unsure about it and doesn’t think that he should be the one to accompany them. Throughout the beginning of the journey, Bilbo is miserable and unhappy. He frequently thinks about giving up the adventure and returning to his home, as he frequently thinks thing along the lines of “his comfortable chair before the fire in his favorite sitting-room in his hobbit-hole”(Tolkien, 46). During the adventure, the group faces many challenges. They are captured by trolls, chased by goblins, trapped by spiders, and imprisoned by wood-elves. Along with these obstacles, Bilbo also gets split up from the group and finds himself talking to a creature named Gollum. Gollum has been driven mad by his “precious” possession, which is a ring that enables the person wearing it

The Hobbit: Bilbo is a hobbit that lives in the Shire. He is very well respected and lives a normal life, but he is quite curious for a hobbit. One day he talks with a wizard named Gandalf and invites him over for tea in a couple of days. Instead of Gandalf, thirteen dwarves (Balin, Dwalin, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Ori, Dori, Nori, Fili, Kili and Thorin) show up. They tell him their home, the Lonely Mountain, and its treasures were stolen by the dragon Smaug a long time ago and that they want to go on a quest to reclaim it.

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit, a small creature that’s beardless with hairy feet who’s sociable and that loves his cozy home. Later on, he meets a wizard name Gandalf who’s looking for someone to share an adventure with, but Bilbo strongly declines the request. After Bilbo refuses the invitation, he wants to invite Gandalf for tea the next day, and after Gandalf left, he makes a strange imprint on Bilbo’s door. The next day, Gandalf and thirteen dwarves randomly came inside his house with comfort and to talk about the journey they are going to have. When Bilbo determines that Gandalf had made a weird mark on his door, it meant that the wizard had displayed Bilbo as a burglar expecting that the dwarves would recruit him, and until then, he agrees

Bilbo Baggins, throughout the story, has had to fight himself in many situations. Almost every chapter he has to overcome his fears and change himself. In the beginning of the story, Bilbo is a humble young man in a nice house, with no need or want for adventure. An old man named Gandalf comes and talks to him about adventure, to which Bilbo declines. So the Gandalf put a marking on his door. The next day thirteen dwarves come to his house and start to make themselves at home uninvited, and then they begin to speak of adventure. So this where Bilbo decides to go for an adventure. Bilbo has been known for not being very adventurous, he always stayed at home. So he embarks on the journey, and already he is transforming into a new hobbit.