Bilbo criticized Murphree for calling out the National Guard to prevent a lynching in Jackson, declaring that no black person was worthy of protection by the Guard.

" Toward the end of his possession of the Ring, Bilbo begins to show some of the obsessive tendencies of Gollum — calling the Ring " my precious ," and showing flashes of dark hostility when asked by Gandalf to give the Ring to his heir, Frodo.

While Bilbo may be seen as a literary symbol of small folk of any gender, a gender-conscious approach can help students establish notions of a " socially symbolic text " where meaning is generated by tendentious readings of a given work.

Tolkien used an image of an immature Golden Eagle from T. A. Coward's 1919 work The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs for an illustration depicting Bilbo awaking next to Gwaihir ( a giant eagle ).

After Bilbo died, the orderly staff left his body in the room until Wilderson began work later that night, so that the African-American orderly could remove the body of the segregationist.

This work explains how and why Gandalf arranged for the retaking of the Lonely Mountain ( Erebor in Sindarin ), an adventure recounted from the perspective of Bilbo Baggins many years before in Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Freed of the Ring's power over his senses, Bilbo travelled to Rivendell, where for the next 17 years he lived a pleasant life of retirement: eating, sleeping, writing poetry, and working on his memoirs, There and Back Again, known to us as The Hobbit.

In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins and his Hobbit companions journeyed to Rivendell, where they met with Bilbo, who had retired there after his 111th birthday, spending his time on his memoirs, There and Back Again.

There are hints in the History of Middle-earth series of books, ( especially in Morgoth's Ring in the section " Myths Transformed "), that some Orc leaders, such as the First Age's Boldog, or the Great Goblin encountered by Bilbo and the Dwarves, may in fact have been fallen Maiar which had taken Orc form:

Bilbo Baggins | Bilbo writing There and Back Again in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | The Fellowship of the Ring ; note subtitle " A Hobbit's Tale "

There is no such framework in the published version of The Silmarillion ; Tolkien eventually changed the intended framework of the saga, altering its mode from tales told by Ælfwine to one based around Bilbo Baggins's Red Book translations of " Elvish lore ".

Even though, like Bilbo Baggins, he may not be eager for adventure, he is willing or somehow brought into a fantasy affair.

Smith On Labour Value Bilbo, Biscay, Spain: University of the Basque Country Working Paper.

In Portugal, it's called " azeda " ( sour ), and is usually chewed raw, just like Bilbo Baggins did on the second from last line on page 87 of the Hobbit 50th anniversary edition.

* Hobbit Day, a day celebrating the fictional characters Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, as a part of Tolkien Week.

The evolution and maturation of the protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is central to the story.

This journey of maturation, where Bilbo gains a clear sense of identity and confidence in the outside world, may be seen as a Bildungsroman rather than a traditional quest.

Thus, while Gandalf exerts a parental influence over Bilbo early on, it is Bilbo who gradually takes over leadership of the party, a fact the dwarves could not bear to acknowledge.

Chance compares the development and growth of Bilbo against other characters to the concepts of just kingship versus sinful kingship derived from the Ancrene Wisse ( which Tolkien had written on in 1929 ) and a Christian understanding of Beowulf.

Specific plot elements and features in The Hobbit that show similarities to Beowulf include the title thief as Bilbo is called by Gollum and later also by Smaug, the underground path into the mountain, and Smaug's personality which leads to the destruction of Lake-town.

Bilbo steals the Arkenstone — a most ancient relic of the dwarves — and attempts to ransom it to Thorin for peace.

In the end Bilbo gives up the precious stone and most of his share of the treasure to help those in greater need.

Themes found in early English literature, and specifically in the poem Beowulf, have a heavy presence in defining the ancient world Bilbo stepped into.

It is in the use of his elf-blade that we see Bilbo finally taking his first independent heroic action.

This progression culminates in Bilbo stealing a cup from the dragon's hoard, rousing him to wrath — an incident directly mirroring Beowulf, and an action entirely determined by traditional narrative patterns.

He portrays Bilbo as a modern anachronism exploring an essentially antique world.

Bilbo is able to negotiate and interact within this antique world because language and tradition make connections between the two worlds.

For example, Gollum's riddles are taken from old historical sources, while those of Bilbo come from modern nursery books.

It is the form of the riddle game, familiar to both, which allows Gollum and Bilbo to engage each other, rather than the content of the riddles themselves.

It starred Anthony Jackson as narrator, Paul Daneman as Bilbo and Heron Carvic as Gandalf.

* Sting ( Middle-earth ), a sword belonging to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

In, Gandalf arranged ( and frequently accompanied ) a band of thirteen dwarves and the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to reclaim from the dragon Smaug the Dwarves ' lost treasure in Erebor.

After saving Maggie's life he develops a close and very protective relationship with her, going so far as to insult an attractive woman who is flirting with him when he mistakenly thinks she is calling Maggie ugly.

He issued a proclamation calling for assistance, took possession of the king's person, and withdrew for safety to the fortified Windsor Castle, where Edward wrote, " Me thinks I am in prison ".

She thinks a full appreciation of the work is only possible within the context of the remaining novels of The Baroque Cycle, and compares the novel to works by Dorothy Dunnett, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, calling it " history-of-science fiction ".

* when digging at the foot of the cross, Thompson finds what he thinks is the treasure, a silver button, only for Haddock to tell him that it's just a button from Sir Francis ' clothing and calling him a " freshwater sailor ";

When Samuel hears Yahweh speaking to him, he at first thinks it is Eli ; Eli, who doesn't hear Yahweh calling Samuel, eventually realizes the truth, and instructs Samuel on how to respond.

Kurosawa has been quoted as saying that he thinks little of the film, calling it “ too technical ” while also remarking that it contains “ all that technique and not one real thought in it .” His attitude had changed by 1982, when he wrote in his autobiography that “ no shooting ever went as smoothly ,” and that “ the excellent pace of the shooting and the good feeling of the crew can be sensed in the finished film .”

Just as he thinks the governor is calling, the switch is thrown and Grant drops.

" I remember just calling Blake a ' fucking prima donna ' and a ' stupid son of a bitch who thinks it's all about him.

Sabrina falls in love with him, even though she quotes others as calling Linus " the world's only living heart donor " and someone who " thinks that morals are paintings on walls and scruples are money in Russia.

Meanwhile, the abusive and promiscuous ex-boyfriend Jon begins calling, angry that Noi thinks she can leave him.

He knocks on a few doors in Islington near where he thinks that cave was, firstly calling at Friends of the World.

That night, Kyle is using the toilet, when he thinks he hears Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo calling to him from the toilet.

Lobby card for the filmTwo years after her husband's death, Christine Faber ( Lynn Bari ) thinks she hears her late husband ( Donald Curtis ) calling out of the surf on the beach one night.