Bilbo’s Journey

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Throughout the story “The Hobbit” Bilbo, a hobbit, goes off on a journey. A journey may not seem like much but for a hobbit that never leaves his little hobbit hole it is. Throughout his journey Bilbo changes a lot from when he first sets off. At the beginning he is just very normal I would say. He stays at home and never leaves, he just sits in his chair blowing smoke rings out of his pipe most of the day. Then he goes off on this journey and it changes him. The journey turns him into a hero by its end.
Bilbo’s journey all starts one day he was sitting outside. Gandalf came up to him and even though Bilbo did not recognize him at first he soon realized it was Gandalf the great wizard. Gandalf tricked Bilbo into getting him to come to tea, while Bilbo thought it would just be Gandalf thirteen other dwarfs, Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, Bomber, and Thorin, came to tea. Bilbo found all this really annoying and wishes all the dwarfs and Gandalf would just leave, he did not like all these people in his house. Finally after the hobbit’s house was clean the dwarfs began to sing and tell stories of Smaug. Smaug was a dragon who had claimed the city of Dale which was Thorin’s father’s kingdom. Bilbo became very frighten about the stories told and when the dwarfs asked him to help them and be a burglar he was stunned. “I am quite sure you have come to the wrong house.” (19) Bilbo told them. He did not want to go off to a land he did not know and face a dragon for some reason that did not concern him. He just wanted to stay at home. This disappointed the dwarfs to some extent they did not believe Bilbo was all that important, but Gandalf did. The next day Bilbo woke up late in the morning to find a ...

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...ore than a hobbit to him. Thorin then died and Bilbo cried till his eyes were red. The he and Gandalf were on their way home. When he got home all his stuff was sold. Everyone around thought he was dead so they sold everything. So with the money he had he went and bought it all back from the people who bought it before.
By the end Bilbo had done many things to contribute to the way things played out. If Bilbo had not been there the dwarfs may not have been alive and the gold may be lost. Even though he had a lot of gold it wasn’t the gold that changed him. He had seen trolls, goblins, Gollum, elves, he killed giant spiders and talked to a dragon. He had saved the dwarfs live more then on one occasion. He wasn’t that hobbit who wanted to stay in his little hobbit hole anymore. He wasn’t even a hobbit who wanted adventures. Bilbo was now a hero.

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