Theme

Theme:

The fear of the unknown is to preserve our current self.  For once we leave our comfort bubble, we add something new to ourselves that cannot be taken back.

Biblo is a simple hobbit.  He is a respectable hobbit, one that does not go on silly adventures.  When this respectable hobbit who thinks adventures are "nasty disturbing uncomfortable things!" goes of past the Shire and into the wild with a party of dwarves (Tolkien 3). As Bilbo experiences trolls, the mines of goblins, being carried by an eagle, fighting spiders, out riddling Gollum, and outwitting a dragon, he himself grows beyond his years.  Coming back to the Shire, the "Presumed Dead" Bilbo  was "... and elf-friend, and the honour of dwarves, wizards, and all such folk that aver passed that way; but he was no longer quite respectable... [and] he was quite content" (Tolkien 302).