An+Unlikely+Hero

- Bilbo Baggins is an unlikely hero in many ways. He is one half Baggin so he naturally like to stay at home and do nothing. Throughout the book Bildo becomes more of his Tookish side. He comes out of his shell and becomes starts to become a likely hero. When they encountered the trolls he is new at the job and has to try to pick pocket the trolls.

- Bilbo does many things throughout the adventure to show the elves that he is a hero and a leader. During the adventure Bilbo rescues the elves from the spiders, and because Gandalf left he realized that he had to step up and take charge. Bilbo thinks that he is a wimp and never can the strong andpowerful hobbit he should be. But he steps up and saves the elves from the spiders and does a really good job.

- Biblo also take great leadership when he has to save all the draves from the wood-elves. He has to put on on his ring and wonder throughout the tunnels to try to find the keys to the cell. His moment of opportunity came when the wood-elves got drunk off of wine. He then stole the keys from the elf that had the keys and set the dwarves free. He then put the dwarves in empty wine barrels and set them on down stream. He then had to react spontaneously and jump on a barrel himself to get away.

-At the time of when the dwares were going to take on Smaug, Bilbo became a leader and decided he needed to be the one to stand up and take charge and go and try to defeat and talk to Smaug. Bilbo knew that nobody besides himself would want to become the leader, so he believed in himself and went in to take on Smaug.

-Bilbo also take great leadership when he gives the Arkenstone the Bard. Bilbo is trying to avoid conflict by Bard and Thorin trading. This just blows up in Bilbo's face because Thorin is furious at Bilbo. Bilbo is just trying to make everyone happy. Everyone wants the person in charge to be calm and have rational thoughts.

- After the battle of the five armies, Thorin was wounded in the battle and he eventually died. Bilbo thought that it would be appropriate and proper to bury him. He also came up with a great idea to bury the Arkenstone with Thorin and also give him some of the treasure from Smaug's layer. Bilbo stood up and created a great idea, to respect Thorin for all he done along the adventure and how big of a help he was to the dwarves.

- After the funeral, Gandolf took Bilbo back to his house. Along the way, Bilbo gave treasure to all the people who helped him and his friends along the journey. He he gave treasure to Beorn and Elrond for helping him to get where he is now. He also payed respects to his fallen comrades.