The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins Quotes

If there were a word to describe “the most mainest of all main characters” I would use it for Bilbo Baggins. He is only one of fifteen “main characters” (I hope that is the correct count of main characters). Hobbits as I recall are very small, smaller than dwarves. After a quick Google Search, I find out that Bilbo is only a whopping three feet! Another quick Google search and I find out that three feet is about the average height of a two or three year old child. I imagine since Bilbo is short he must be looking up at every person he talks to which would be the other main characters consisting of thirteen dwarves (another short species) and the wizard Gandalf (who is nearly two times Bilbo’s height). Hobbits prefer peaceful and normal life, not an adventurous and wild one. Hobbits, for some reason I am privy to, do not grow beards no matter how old they are. I found this quite interesting as I recall many instances in which beards were mentioned. Nearing the end of the novel, the dwarves praised one another with “May your beards never grow thin!” (Tolkien 294).

The Hobbit begins introducing Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit. All of a sudden the great wizard named Gandalf swoops to Bilbo’s hole (or you can call it his home). The wizard attempts to persuade Bilbo to go on an adventure, but apparently as mentioned earlier hobbits dislike the idea of

On a particularly stormy night, they take shelter in a cave owned by the Great Goblin and the were soon ambushed and captured. The goblins saw that they had the goblin-killing weapons and got mad thus resulting with the Great Goblin ordering his subordinates to “Slash them! Beat them! Bite them! Gnash them! Take them away to dark holes full of snakes, and never let them see the light again!” (Tolkien 64). The fight led to several goblins including the Great Goblin to their deaths. Everyone managed to escape except Bilbo, who falls and blacks out while getting a piggyback ride from