Bilbo's Transformation In The Hobbit

Does the promise of adventure, treasure, and danger awaken desires you never knew you had? For Bilbo Baggins of Bagend, this rings true. J.R.R Tolkien's novel, The Hobbit, follows the adventures of Bilbo and Co. through the Hero’s Journey in the extraordinary world of Middle Earth. It was a beautiful spring day in the Shire, and Bilbo was in the middle of his second breakfast when a wizard showed up at his doorstep. Though he did not know it at the time, Bilbo was in for the adventure of a lifetime. The wizard revealed himself to be Gandalf the Gray a well-known, kind, yet mysterious man. The wizard was trying to help the dwarves, Thorin and his thirteen companions, to reclaim their families’ homeland and gold from an awful dragon named Smaug. Gandalf was in the Shire to seek out the sneaky expertise of a hobbit, for they needed a burglar. Bilbo was indecisive at first, but in the

Another one of these foreshadowing events took place in the goblin caves. When Bilbo gets left behind while escaping from the goblins, he meets Gollum. While this pale disgusting creature does represent Bilbo’s Doppelganger, he also shows the reader the future fate of Bilbo. Gollum's features and crazed actions are all due to his unhealthy obsession with the magic ring. Gollum was once a hobbit like Bilbo, it was when he found the ring that he slowly began to transform into the hideous creature we now know. Now, Bilbo has the ring and the same fate is in store for him. We see the beginning of this during the group's escape from the spiders. Bilbo had dropped the ring and was attempting to retrieve it. In doing so he sadisticly killed a baby spider and with a crazy gleam in his eye called the ring ‘my precious’, just like Gollum. We further see this in the sequel Lord of the Rings. These minute hints benefit the reader, providing excitement and making predictable yet enjoyable, and still surprising,