Tolkien appears to have based Bilbo on the designer William Morris's travels in Iceland Morris liked his home comforts, but grew through his adventurous journeying. This is not compatible with the much older world of Dwarves and Elves. Bilbo sets out in The Hobbit timid and comfort-loving, and through his adventures grows to become a useful and resourceful member of the quest.īilbo's way of life in the Shire, defined by features like the availability of tobacco and a postal service, recalls that of the English middle class during the Victorian to Edwardian eras. The Hobbit is selected by the wizard Gandalf to help Thorin and his party of Dwarves to reclaim their ancestral home and treasure, which has been seized by the dragon Smaug. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, and the fictional narrator (along with Frodo Baggins) of many of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. Tolkien's illustration of Bilbo in his comfortable hobbit-hole, Bag Endīilbo Baggins is the title character and protagonist of J.

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