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Click here to see the Pocket Hardback Edition based on the first edition cover.The precursor to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit or There and Back Again, is a Children's High Fantasy Adventure Novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. It tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a simple, respectable Hobbit who is content with his sleepy life in a small corner of Middle-Earth known as Hobbiton until a crafty old wizard named Gandalf and thirteen dwarves offer him the chance for a grand adventure to slay a dragon and win back a lost treasure in the Lonely Mountain, forcing him to grow out of his comfortable little world. Along the way, he encounters merry elves, ferocious trolls, wicked goblins, giant spiders, and other fantastic characters and creatures before coming face to face with the terrible dragon Smaug himself.J. R. R. Tolkien wrote the story in the early 1930s as a serious piece of fiction but to avoid scorn and derision among his peers said he was writing it to amuse children and in particular his three sons (which, as his own saying goes, contained a grain of truth: he used individual chapters from it as bedtime stories while he wrote them, using his son Christopher in particular as a test audience of sorts). It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim. The book has sold an estimated 100 million copies worldwide since first publication and along with its sequel is the Trope Codifier for the High Fantasy genre.A sequel was requested by his publishers, and as work on The Lord of the Rings progressed, Tolkien made accommodations for it in Chapter 5 of The Hobbit. These few but significant changes were integrated into the second edition. Further editions followed, correcting minor errors and reflecting Tolkien's changing concept of the world into which Bilbo stumbled (removing references to policemen and China, for example).The work has not been out of print since the paper shortages during the Second World War.Adaptations include: A 1966 In Name Only short cartoon adaptation by Gene Deitch. A 1968 BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation in 8 half-hour episodes. The master tapes for this were wiped in the '70s (a routine event for the BBC in this period) but a domestic recording was later recovered and used to re-issue the series. A very low-budget live-action version made in 1984 in Soviet Russia, as seen here. The same article also links to the Soviet version of the novel, with its uniquely styled illustrations. Boggit, a 1986 Amstrad CPC Text Adventure parody game by Fergus McNeill and Judith Child, which was a prequel to the 1985 game Bored of the Rings. Quest for the Golden etc..., a 1996 Interactive Fiction game by Derek Mason that parodied Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, as well as 1980s text adventures in general. A 1977 animated TV special by Rankin-Bass. Notable for using top-flight voice talent (several performances of which more or less defined the characters in the zeitgeist for decades and heavily influenced later depictions) and for having much of the music be based directly on songs in the book. It was also one of the first major Japanese crossover animations, and many of the artists went on to found Studio Ghibli. A 2012-14 live-action movie trilogy. Starring Martin Freeman as Bilbo the Hobbit and Ian Mckellen as Gandalf the Wizard, the films were titled An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies which were directed by Peter Jackson as a prequel to his The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Several video-game versions: The Hobbit, a 1982 Interactive Fiction game which is considered to be one of the defining entries in the genre. The Hobbit, a 2003 video game made for the Playstation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, Xbox and PC. A highly regarded Graphic Novel version approved by the Tolkien estate, illustrated by David Wenzel in 1991. There and Back Again by Pat Murphy, which is The Hobbit IN SPACE! Several Audiobook versions, including one read by Andy Serkis (who played Gollum in both the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies). Serkis originally did a livestreamed "Hobbitathon" reading of the whole book to raise money for NHS Charities Together & Best Beginnings during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and was asked to record an official version for Harper Collins later that year.
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One Bullet Left: Bard shoots the dragon with the only arrow he has left. Justified, as the one left is also a special one inherited through generations, and just before the shot he is told the dragon's weak spot.
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Delighting in Riddles
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Delighting in Riddles: Gollum is a downplayed example: he doesn't speak in riddles all the time, but he's more than happy to challenge Bilbo into a game of riddles. Smaug is an inversion. The narrative states that he, like most dragons, enjoys being riddled at.
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Pretty Butterflies
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Pretty Butterflies: There are enormous, black-purple butterflies living in the treetops in Mirkwood.
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Boisterous Bruiser
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Boisterous Bruiser: Beorn, at least once you've gotten through his defences.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Smaug. "Girion Lord of Dale is dead, and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep. And where are his son's sons that dare approach me?" Bard, the leader of the Lake-men's successful defense against the dragon, is Girion's heir.
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Cool Old Guy: Gandalf. The Hobbit doesn't specify how old he is nor the full range of his powers, but he's more-or-less the brains behind the operation, clearly capable of "magic," and not at all feeble or weak. He looks like this dried old geezer with a long beard and unreasonably large eyebrows.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: Tolkien's follow-up The Lord of the Rings and various posthumous publications about the world of Middle-Earth specified many additional details and background information on things that were not expanded upon in The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings provides a backstory for Gollum and his ring of invisibility, and reveals that the mysterious "Necromancer" is a millennia-old fallen angel otherwise known as the Dark Lord Sauron (who is also the creator of Gollum's ring and is the "Master who ruled [the rings]" cryptically mentioned in the chapter "Riddles in the Dark"). It also discloses that the Elven King's proper name is Thranduil. Appendix A of The Lord of the Rings provides a history of the Dwarves of Durin's Folk, including a genealogy which reveals that the mother of Fili and Kili (Thorin's sister) is called Dís and that Balin, Dwalin, Oin and Gloin are relatives of Thorin descended from a side branch of royal line. In "The Quest of Erebor", published in Unfinished Tales, Gandalf relates from his perspective how he first met Thorin Oakenshield, why he developed the plan to take Bilbo along, and what he was doing when he wasn't with Bilbo's party. The Silmarillion is an account of "the strange stories before the beginning of History, the wars of the evil goblins and the elves and the first men in the North" mentioned in the chapter "A Short Rest". This clears up various allusions made about the history of the Elves, such as the city of Gondolin (where the swords Orcrist, Glamdring and Sting were forged), the "elves and heroes of the North" who are Elrond's ancestors, and the migration to "Faerie in the West" which divided Wood Elves and High Elves.
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Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography
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Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography: The adventure starts out in Hobbiton and proceeds through hobbit lands, then into the semi-wilderness Lone-lands where they meet the trolls. The party enters the Misty Mountains, passes through the darkness of Mirkwood and eventually reaches the Desolation of the Dragon—the "bleak and barren" land around the Lonely Mountain. Bilbo implies that it gets even worse if you go off the map!
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The Brute
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The trolls are also portrayed as intelligent (well, they can talk) and with personalities; later installments would uniformly depict trolls as mindless, snarling brutes. However, it's possible that's only because every other time we see a troll, they're usually marching under either Morgoth's or Sauron's banner. The trolls we see in this book may just be what happens when trolls go "feral" and are left to their own devices with no master to serve.
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The Caper
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The Caper: Morally grey Main Characters "stealing" the treasure from Smaug, one of an Always Chaotic Evil race of monsters who stole it from its original owners.
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The Cynic
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The Cynic: Bard is well renowned for his grim attitude throughout Lake Town—but it comes in very handy when he's the first to twig that Smaug is coming and races to get the town ready to fight back.
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The Quest
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The Quest: Go forth across the land, over the Misty Mountains cold, to the distant Lonely Mountain to somehow get a massive pile of treasure out from under a very dangerous dragon. Try not to get dead.
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The Wood Elves. Elves and dwarves have a mixed history, so they mutually distrust each other to begin with. When the starving Dwarves of Thorin's Company disturb the Elves' forest banquets they assume they are attacking, and then the dwarves' presence stirs up the spiders, who are the enemies of the Elves. For their part, when they are captured by the elves they refuse to say why they're in the wood, making the Elves more suspicious. The Elves turn out to be a lot nicer later on, helping the Lake men to build shelters and find food after the destruction of their city by the dragon. During the Battle of the Five Armies, Bilbo decides he had rather make his Last Stand with the Elves than anywhere else.
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Villain Song
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Villain Song: The goblins' song, which the goblins sing when they capture the company, who unwittingly camped on their "front porch", as it were.
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No Sympathy: Thorin and Company are in no mood to hear Bombur complain about how hungry he is and how weak in the knees he feels when he wakes up after he fell into the enchanted river and slept for six days. Thorin rather cruelly tells him that if he won't stop telling them about his dreams of a forest feast they will leave him there. The dwarves have been eating short rations and carrying Bombur for those six days he was asleep, so Thorin's being ill-tempered is perhaps understandable, if not justified. Bilbo is annoyed by Thorin's lackluster response after he's released from his barrel and urges him to get up. The narrator wryly notes that Bilbo forgot he had enjoyed one more meal than the Dwarves, plus the use of his arms and legs with a more liberal quality of air. On the other hand, Thorin does see the sense in Bilbo's point about the need to get moving and helps him free the other Dwarves.
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Senseless Sacrifice: In the Battle of Five Armies, it is said that Fíli and Kíli defended Thorin with "shield and body." All for naught, as Thorin died of his wounds anyway.
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Talking Animal: The Eagles and other birds, though how comprehensible they are depends on what species is talking and, in some cases, on the language skills of the listener. Bilbo can understand the Spiders' speech. Smaug, if you consider him an animal. While Beorn's animals aren't heard speaking, they're certainly sapient and understand human speech.
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Beorn, the badass werebear berserker and one-man/bear army.
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Primal Fear
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Primal Fear: The Giant Spiders especially, but through the whole story Bilbo travels in a world where everything (aside from the trolls) wants to eat him. And the trolls only don't want to because he's too small to bother with; he's not even a mouthful, and not worth the trouble of skinning and deboning.
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Knight in Sour Armor
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The Elvenking fits a Knight in Sour Armor quite well. While isolationist and distrustful toward the Dwarves, he shows kindness to the survivors of Laketown and is more reluctant to begin a war for gold than any of his peers.
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I'm a Humanitarian: Supplementary to his diet of raw fish, Gollum also eats the occasional goblin whenever he can kill one.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: The goblins show they do indeed have a sense of humour, albeit of a very dark kind, when they cheerfully sing the "Fifteen Birds" song as they go about burning the dwarves alive, likening them to wingless birds to be cooked and eaten.
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Ambiguously Human: Gandalf speculates that Beorn is either a descendant of the bears who lived in the Misty Mountains before the Stone-giants arrived or a descendant of the men who lived in the region before the arrival of foul beings and beasts from the north.note Word of God later said that Beorn was a Man.
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Glowing Eyes
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When the evil wargs chase the party, they are described as having shining red eyes.
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Bilingual Bonus: If you can decode the runes around the original cover (which are slightly adapted Anglo-Saxon runes rather than in-universe cirth), it gives a full title in English: "The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again: Being the record of a year's journey made by Bilbo Baggins; compiled from his memoirs by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by George Allen & Unwin." (Newer editions added "of Hobbiton" after "Baggins", and changed the name of the publisher.)
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Non-Indicative Name: The Battle of Five Armies, maybe. The official five are the Men, Elves, and Dwarves on one side and the Goblins and Wolves on the other. However, the Eagles also took part, Beorn and Gandalf were there independently, and the Company joined the fray towards the end; but all of these groups may be too small to count as "armies" (though they did make a decisive impact)note the name is so non-indicative that in the animated version, the Goblins and Wolves are considered one army, and the Eagles are the 5th.
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Guile Hero
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Guile Hero: Bilbo is not physically cut out for action heroics, but he manages to survive and influence events because of his stealth, his ability to talk his way out of sticky situations, and (in the business with the Arkenstone) his willingness to pull a Batman Gambit.
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Break the Haughty: Thorin is rather prideful, but he's still a likable person. Up until he reclaims his family's vast long lost fortune and Gold Fever gets the better of him. If it costs him his life or if he would have been killed anyway is debatable, but he realizes the error of his ways not long before he dies of mortal wounds inflicted by goblins.
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Our Werebeasts Are Different: Beorn the "skin-changer" is able to shapeshift into the form of a huge bear, which he apparently does regularly by night, but also by daylight if need be (such as to fight in the Battle of the Five Armies).
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Missing Steps Plan: As noted by both Gandalf and Bilbo, the Dwarves' plan to reclaim the mountain goes something like this:
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Smaug dies and Bilbo fully expects the adventure is over. An attentive reader will notice there are still five chapters left, with three chapters before the actual climax of the story.
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Grim Up North
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Grim Up North: The Withered Heath, north of the Lonely Mountain, is notorious as a breeding ground for dragons.
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Marked Bullet
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Marked Bullet: Bard had an arrow he was particularly fond of, a family heirloom, and saved it for last.
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Out of Character
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In the first edition of the book, Gollum willingly bet the Ring and was sorry he had lost it and couldn't give it to Bilbo after Bilbo won the riddle contest. When Tolkien decided to use the Ring as the hook for his sequel, he determined this would be Out of Character for Gollum, and he completely rewrote this chapter to the current version. He also provided an in-universe justification for the revision in The Lord of the Rings, with Bilbo having been driven by the Ring to become an Unreliable Narrator when he retold the story to the dwarves and in his memoires.
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: When the characters finally reach the Lonely Mountain, they talk about all the treasures they'll find inside, with particular attention being given to the Arkenstone, the single-most valuable item in the entire mountain which is said to glow beautifully in any condition. After Smaug goes off to attack Laketown, Bilbo re-enters the treasury to have a look around, but in the dragon's absence it's pitch black except for a tiny point of white light off in the distance; a few paragraphs later, we learn that this is the Arkenstone.
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BreakingSpeech
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Breaking Speech: Thorin gives Bombur an exceedingly nasty one because he's annoyed about Bombur crying about being sick and in pain. It's cut from nearly all adaptations, except for a graphic novel adaptation, which notably leaves out the bit about Thorin telling Bombur that they would have abandoned him if he hadn't woken up when he did.
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The Hobbit / int_38ad0e6a
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Bilbo, aware of Thorin's all-overshadowing desire for the Arkenstone, uses that knowledge to force Thorin into negotiating with the Elves and Lake-men.
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The Hobbit / int_38d02d44
 The Hobbit / int_3ac583f4
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SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Despite the tone being somewhat lighter than The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit is more balanced. Its also a more Grey-and-Gray Morality story rather than a typical Good vs Evil story.
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The Hobbit / int_3ac583f4
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Namesake Gag
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Namesake Gag: The game of golf is apparently named after the goblin chieftain Golfimbul. Not because he invented it, but because Bandobras Took knocked his head off and it flew through the air and landed in a rabbit hole.
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The Hobbit / int_3adca595
 The Hobbit / int_3aec9e5e
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: Bard is notorious among the Laketowners for predicting all kinds of disasters, like floods and poisoned fish. When the glow of the approaching dragon is seen in Laketown, the more naive townsfolk believe that the river is turning into gold, while Bard immediately assumes that the dragon is coming. He is mocked for it, but before long it turns out he was right, and the preparations urged by Bard allow the townspeople to put up a temporary defence.
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The Hobbit / int_3aec9e5e
 The Hobbit / int_3ce914fb
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Macabre Moth Motif
 The Hobbit / int_3ce914fb
comment
Macabre Moth Motif: When the party is travelling through Mirkwood they go without campfires at night rather than attract the swarms of huge black moths that come out at night. Though not actually harmful, they're very unpleasant.
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The Hobbit / int_3ce914fb
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Beorn vs. any goblin (including Bolg) during the Battle of Five Armies, being able to effortlessly take out the elite goblins that Thorin and co. couldn't get past. Smaug against everyone and everything he fights (until Bard is told about his weak spot).
 The Hobbit / int_3d699462
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Congestion Speak
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Congestion Speak: At one point it's noted that when Bilbo has a cold, all he can say is, "Thag you very buch".
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The Hobbit / int_3da73f66
 The Hobbit / int_3eba1249
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"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation
 The Hobbit / int_3eba1249
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"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: After the defeat of Smaug, Laketown sends an army to the mountain to seek compensation for the destruction of Laketown by the dragon. Thorin refuses to negotiate while there is an army at his gates, especially while the Wood Elves have their own army there as well. They give him some time to think it over, and after some hours the Laketown messengers return to give what Bilbo thinks is a reasonable demand and hear Thorin's response. He isn't in a talking mood.
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 The Hobbit / int_3ed23024
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
 The Hobbit / int_3ed23024
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Everything that happens after the dwarves arrive at the mountain and find the secret passage: Bilbo was hired to steal the treasure, but the treasure proves to be so vast that Bilbo couldn't possibly steal a significant portion of it. Smaug points out to Bilbo on his second visit that even if he were able to steal his one-fourteenth share of the treasure, he would still have to find a way to transport it through hundreds of miles of trackless wilderness back to his home. Bilbo had been so focused on getting to the mountain that he never thought of this, and he wonders if the dwarves have been laughing up their sleeves at him the whole time. Unsurprisingly the dwarves, who got as far they did thanks to Gandalf and Bilbo rescuing them, have no plan to deal with Smaug. This becomes a real problem when they are trapped in the mountain with the only way out being through the dragon's lair. Though Smaug is killed in a suitably dramatic fashion, it is only after he has already burned down Laketown, leaving its people homeless and very unhappy with the dwarves who provoked the dragon. Bilbo fully expects the adventure to be over once he learns that Smaug is dead, but it turns out that sitting on a colossal pile of treasure with only 13 dwarves and a hobbit to defend it, even if you are in a mountain fortress, leads to its own problems.
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Deus ex Machina
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comment
Deus ex Machina: Gandalf's main role for most of the book. The dwarves are about to be eaten by trolls? He shows up and rescues them. The whole company is caught by goblins? He kills the Great Goblin and helps them escape. After being absent for most of the book, he shows up again at the climax when the Men of Laketown and the Elves are about to fight Thorin's dwarven allies and reveals that an army of goblins is on the way to kill all of them. A literal example are the eagles of Manwë, who save the day out of nowhere on multiple occasions. In his private writings, Tolkien himself called them a "dangerous machine", lampshading this trope. At one point they save the day when the group is trapped on trees at the edge of a cliff; later on, they arrive out of nowhere to tip the scales in the final battle.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Smaug is killed, the enemy forces are defeated, the dwarves recovered Erebor with Dáin as the new king, Dale is rebuilt with Bard as the new ruler, the Necromancer is expelled from his fortress, and Bilbo returns home safely and rich... but Laketown was destroyed, thousands of Elves, Men and Dwarves lost their lives at the Battle of the Five Armies, including Thorin, Fíli, and Kíli, and Bilbo discovers that his fellow Hobbits have not only not missed him but have even tried to take over his home and belongings. He also finds out that no one believes the stories he tells about his adventures, and that added to his long absence makes him lose all of his reputation. Despite this, Bilbo doesn't care much. There's also the question of his ring, but that's another story...
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Amnesiac Hero
 The Hobbit / int_41ba335a
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Amnesiac Hero: Bombur forgets the last (very eventful) four months after he falls in the enchanted river of Mirkwood, but he remains a protagonist through to the end of the book... which is actually quite meaningful if you understand what he must have gone through.
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I Am X, Son of Y
 The Hobbit / int_42002878
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I Am X, Son of Y: Most Dwarves, Elves and Men introduce themselves in this manner. Hobbits, on the other hand, use family names.
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Only Smart People May Pass
 The Hobbit / int_433e732f
comment
Only Smart People May Pass: The Riddle Game with Gollum, whose offer is to show Bilbo the way out of the caves (or to make a meal out of Bilbo if Bilbo loses the game). Played straight in the first few riddles (some of which are real stumpers), but subverted by the winning riddle: it's just a stupid question which Gollum mistook for a riddlenote The text notes that Gollum's response that the riddle isn't fair means he has technically accepted it as a riddle. Had he pointed out "Hey, that's not a riddle!", he probably could have made Bilbo come up with something else, but now he's stuck with that one. Of course, Gollum intended to cheat and eat Bilbo all along, since he had the Ring (or thought he did).
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Evil Sorcerer
 The Hobbit / int_434a6d40
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Evil Sorcerer: The Necromancer, mentioned in passing by Gandalf.
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 The Hobbit / int_43e36f2f
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Acrofatic
 The Hobbit / int_43e36f2f
comment
Acrofatic: Bombur is constantly teased about his weight, but until the enchanted river incident he keeps up well, giving the trolls the best fight along with cousin Bifur and climbing trees at top speed. He also has little trouble getting to the Lonely Mountain's secret entrance past a sheer climb when push comes to shove despite his reservations about trying.
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 The Hobbit / int_445bc425
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GreyAndGreyMorality
 The Hobbit / int_445bc425
comment
Grey-and-Grey Morality: In addition to the historical conflict between Dwarves and Elves, the story almost ends in a war between Dwarves on one side and Elves and Men on the other, which is averted only by Bilbo's peace-brokering and the goblins and Wargs showing up as a common enemy to force an Enemy Mine scenario. Both the dwarves and the men of Dale have legitimate grievances, and while the goblins and wolves are clearly bad guys, nobody else (even the Eagles) is really perfectly good, except perhaps Gandalf.
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The Hobbit / int_445bc425
 The Hobbit / int_44a65728
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Hospital Surprise
 The Hobbit / int_44a65728
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Hospital Surprise: Bilbo gets hit on the head during the climactic battle. He doesn't wake up literally in hospital, but he's found by a soldier and taken to where Thorin lies mortally wounded.
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 The Hobbit / int_4508b16b
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The Guards Must Be Crazy
 The Hobbit / int_4508b16b
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The Guards Must Be Crazy: The Mirkwood elves demonstrate the Drinking on Duty variation of this trope, allowing the dwarves to escape.
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Ancestral Weapon
 The Hobbit / int_454bda24
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Ancestral Weapon: Bard's Black Arrow.
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 The Hobbit / int_454e6cf5
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Hypnotic Eyes
 The Hobbit / int_454e6cf5
comment
Hypnotic Eyes: When Bilbo converses with Smaug under cover of invisibility, Bilbo is seized with an "unaccountable desire" to come out of his cover and tell Smaug everything he wants to know whenever "Smaug's roving eye, seeking for him in the shadows, flashed across him".
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 The Hobbit / int_462e2f79
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The Outside World
 The Hobbit / int_462e2f79
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The Outside World: The opening chapter mentions that "adventures" are generally frowned upon by the Hobbits, but the occasional hobbit has set out to see the world, particular those of the Took family.
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 The Hobbit / int_4781adbb
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 The Hobbit / int_4781adbb
comment
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Several characters, including Bard and Beorn, who are harsh when they're first seen but help the Dwarves in the Battle of the Five Armies.
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 The Hobbit / int_47fea76b
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Butt-Monkey
 The Hobbit / int_47fea76b
comment
Butt-Monkey: Bombur. He always manages to come last in everything, and if one of the dwarves slips and falls into a river, gets caught by an enchantment or has something unpleasant or humiliating happen to him, it'll be Bombur. He's also subject to frequent untactful comments about how fat he is.
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 The Hobbit / int_4832a3bb
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Always Chaotic Evil
 The Hobbit / int_4832a3bb
comment
Always Chaotic Evil: The goblins (a.k.a. orcs) and the wargs.
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 The Hobbit / int_48da376b
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Game Changer
 The Hobbit / int_48da376b
comment
Game Changer: The magic ring found by Bilbo Baggins gives him the power of invisibility, which allows him to aid the dwarves far more than an ordinary hobbit could have done.
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 The Hobbit / int_4a2059bf
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Gold Fever
 The Hobbit / int_4a2059bf
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Gold Fever: It nearly leads Thorin to war with Laketown and the Wood Elves, and leads to the old master of Laketown into stealing most of the share of the treasure allocated to Laketown and dying in the wilds once it's all over. Bilbo, on the other hand, is (mostly) immune. (It's probably a hobbit thing.) In Thorin's defence, the treasure isn't just money to him, it's his birthright and an element of his people's ancestral home (think the British Crown to the Royal Family) that he's been trying to reclaim for much of his life. The narrator also implies that Smaug's long keeping of the treasure has cursed it, to some extent:
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Call to Adventure
 The Hobbit / int_4c095112
comment
Call to Adventure: One of the classics.
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All of the Other Reindeer
 The Hobbit / int_4c8e8078
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All of the Other Reindeer: The dwarves as a company seem to like reminding Bombur that he is the fattest of them, and Thorin constantly puts him last in order, and often says Bombur will count for two of them. Bombur's complaints about always being last are usually met with some variation of "then you shouldn't be so fat." When Bombur wakes up in Mirkwood after having fallen into an enchanted river he gets little sympathy from the other dwarves, despite having lost months worth of memories and spent the last six days asleep. Thorin is even so annoyed with his tale of all the wonderful things he was eating in his dreams that he says they would have left Bombur behind if he hadn't woken up. To be fair, the other dwarves had just spent six days carrying Bombur on short rations, had eaten the last of their food the night before, and were beginning to lose hope that any of them would get out of Mirkwood alive.
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 The Hobbit / int_4e11940e
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Mythical Motifs
 The Hobbit / int_4e11940e
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Mythical Motifs: The dragon breathes fire and is definitely a symbol of the gold-greed that takes dwarves, humans, and elves alike.
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 The Hobbit / int_4eaa9b84
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Author Tract
 The Hobbit / int_4eaa9b84
comment
Author Tract: While none are very prominent, Tolkien does pause the narration at times to offer some remarkably opinionated notes, such as that goblins may have invented the modern tools of war (tanks and explosives) which he himself despised so much after seeing them during the First World War. He also speaks in some length (although most of it is likely to pass over the heads of the younger, intended target audience) of the virtues of a traditional, pastoral, rural English lifestyle when compared to those of life in the city or of modern people.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
 The Hobbit / int_4f4372e9
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Tolkien always had a specific design for Gollum in mind, and tried his best to write of that in the text. The way he looks in the Peter Jackson films (and most book printings from the '60s onward) is pretty much how everyone expects Gollum to look. However, in the earliest printings of the book, the illustrators hired had very different ideas for Gollum's appearance, so it can be strange to look through old printings and see Gollum looking like a strange yeti◊ in one printing, while looking eel-like in another.◊
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The Big Guy
 The Hobbit / int_500ecfb7
comment
The Big Guy: Bombur is the sole percussion in the company's music group, puts up, along with his cousin Bifur, the best fight against the trolls, and is the literal big guy, though not all of it is fat. Dori is the strongest of the dwarves. He often ends up carrying Bilbo.
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Trick-and-Follow Ploy
 The Hobbit / int_514d1380
comment
Trick-and-Follow Ploy: Done accidentally by Bilbo to Gollum. After Bilbo finds Gollum's "Precious"—a Ring that can turn him invisible—Gollum assumes that Bilbo was lying about being lost and is on his way to the backdoor. He races to head Bilbo off. Except Bilbo really was lost, so he follows Gollum out.
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same
 The Hobbit / int_5281d5b1
comment
Our Dwarves Are All the Same: The Trope Codifier, though since there are thirteen of them in the main party, some of them do get one or two individual personality traits. (Thorin is pompous and long-winded; Dori is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold-cum-The Eeyore; Bombur is a fat Butt-Monkey; Balin is the nice guy; Fíli and Kíli are cheerful.) However, none of them seem to carry any weapons until they find some in the Troll's lair, at which point they end up not with axes, but swords. Nor are they particularly stolid: they seem like seasoned adventurers to Bilbo at first, but once on the journey they whine and grumble about things at least as much as Bilbo does (and eventually more than Bilbo). Thorin's gang might be excused, however, from the fact that they have been technically homeless for decades; Dáin's dwarves from the Iron Mountain fit the trope a lot better.
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Bookends
 The Hobbit / int_53224e46
comment
Bookends: The story begins and ends with Gandalf visiting Bilbo in his home at Bag End.
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 The Hobbit / int_53fd0a77
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Out of the Frying Pan
 The Hobbit / int_53fd0a77
comment
Out of the Frying Pan: Lampshaded, when the party escapes the orcs of the Misty Mountains, only to be surrounded by wolves when night falls.
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 The Hobbit / int_5715081d
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Battle-Interrupting Shout
 The Hobbit / int_5715081d
comment
Battle-Interrupting Shout: Gandalf appears between the Dwarven, Elvish, and Human armies as they move to battle each other.
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 The Hobbit / int_5805c059
type
Werewolf Theme Naming
 The Hobbit / int_5805c059
comment
Werewolf Theme Naming: Beorn has a name that means "bear" in Old English, and he is a "skin-changer" who can turn into a bear at will.
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Hero of Another Story
 The Hobbit / int_581f6468
comment
Hero of Another Story: Gandalf. He has a lot of involvement with this one, but it's just one task of many that requires his attention, which is why he eventually leaves the group. While he's away, he goes on to defeat the Necromancer who had been terrorizing the south.
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Enemy Mine
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Enemy Mine: The Elves and Men on one side, and the Dwarves on the other, are at the brink of open conflict over the distribution of the treasure. But they band together for sheer survival when the goblins and Wargs show up.
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The Berserker
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The Berserker: In the Battle of the Five Armies, Beorn in bear form plows through the Goblin army in an Unstoppable Rage. Bonus points for invoking the literal meaning of "Berserker" (bear-skinned), too.
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 The Hobbit / int_5ca80293
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Pragmatic Villainy
 The Hobbit / int_5ca80293
comment
Pragmatic Villainy: The three trolls don't want to eat Bilbo. But not out of moral objections!
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 The Hobbit / int_5da37ab5
type
Triumphant Reprise
 The Hobbit / int_5da37ab5
comment
Triumphant Reprise: While passing back through Rivendell on his way home, Bilbo hears the elves sing the poem The Dragon is Withered, which opens by describing Smaug's defeat, to the tune of O! What Are You Doing? from his first pass through their realm.
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 The Hobbit / int_5fbb8d8e
type
Hollywood Density
 The Hobbit / int_5fbb8d8e
comment
Hollywood Density: Averted. Bilbo only takes a small fraction of what he was allowed to claim from Smaug's hoard, mainly because the two small chests of coins that he did take, one of gold and one of silver, were all that his pony could carry. It still took him eighty years to spend it all. (He gives away a small bag of gold, "almost the last drop of the Smaug vintage", to Sam shortly before the Scouring of the Shire in Return of the King.)
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 The Hobbit / int_5fcedca
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Big Eater
 The Hobbit / int_5fcedca
comment
Big Eater: Hobbits in general prefer to have rather more than three meals a day, and Bilbo is no exception. Bombur appears to be this, and is correspondingly fat. By the time of the Council of Elrond in The Lord of the Rings, seventy-seven years later, he's gotten so fat that he can no longer move around on his own and requires six young dwarves to move him "from couch to table".
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 The Hobbit / int_5fd14ab3
type
Sacred Hospitality
 The Hobbit / int_5fd14ab3
comment
Sacred Hospitality: Hospitality in its medieval sense is an almost universal virtue: Bilbo feels obligated to offer hospitality to thirteen total strangers on the basis that they show up at mealtime. Played for Laughs with his abject horror as the numbers grow and he realizes he might not see any of the two beautiful cakes he'd baked for himself—because as host it would be his duty to go without rather than take a slice and leave a guest without one. The goblins try to depict their abduction of the dwarves as 'inviting' them to come into the caves. Gandalf gets Beorn to grant hospitality and strongly discourages the dwarves from exploiting it (by, say, making off with Beorn's ponies). Bilbo feels an obligation to the Elvenking for being an (unsuspected) house guest of his. One of Bard's talking-points when he parleys with Thorin after the dragon's death is that the Lake-men gave unstinting hospitality to the dwarves and suffered greatly because of it.
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 The Hobbit / int_603b77ec
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Savage Wolves
 The Hobbit / int_603b77ec
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Savage Wolves: Wargs, the evil talking wolves who ally with goblins. Following the Company's escape from Goblin Town, they run into a pack of Wargs on the slopes of the Misty Mountains and are forced to climb trees to escape them. The Wargs later show up again as one of the five armies in the battle at the book's climax.
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 The Hobbit / int_60ea2a89
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Starter Villain
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Starter Villain: The three trolls. They prove too much for the dwarves and Bilbo to handle, and Gandalf has to rescue them.
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 The Hobbit / int_61836f3d
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News Travels Fast
 The Hobbit / int_61836f3d
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News Travels Fast: When Smaug dies, the novel explicitly notes that word of this event spreads very fast across the region.
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 The Hobbit / int_6293c185
type
Sequel Hook
 The Hobbit / int_6293c185
comment
Sequel Hook: In the foreword to the second edition, Tolkien notes that the account of Bilbo's encounter with Gollum is different in this new edition, and Bilbo lying about how he acquired the Ring is of great importance. The reason for this will be revealed in the (then-published) sequel. In later editions this sequel hook is removed, and instead at the end the reader is directed to The Lord of the Rings for further adventures.
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 The Hobbit / int_634a2ff9
type
Sue Donym
 The Hobbit / int_634a2ff9
comment
Sue Donym: "a bur— a hobbit." "a burrahobbit?"
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 The Hobbit / int_63b02752
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Hair-Trigger Temper
 The Hobbit / int_63b02752
comment
Hair-Trigger Temper: Gandalf describes Beorn as having this, especially regarding the topic of hunting and skinning animals.
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 The Hobbit / int_66f69cd4
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Invisibility Cloak
 The Hobbit / int_66f69cd4
comment
Invisibility Cloak: It's a ring, not a cloak, but it grants invisibility when one wears it.
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 The Hobbit / int_68da6712
type
Canon Welding
 The Hobbit / int_68da6712
comment
The "land of Faerie in the West" being named as the destination of westward elves. In the context of the Canon Welding, this is borrowed from the Legendarium's tale of the very first elves waking in Middle-earth and then traveling to Valinor, except for a small number who remained (known as the Moriquendi or "Dark elves" because they never saw the light of the Two Trees). Thus Faerie can be taken to be an alternate name for Valinor, but it's never called that elsewhere.note This is not the same as elves going to Valinor permanently in the Third Age. Rather, the first elves woke up, went to Valinor, and then some went back to Middle-earth for various reasons.
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Minion Maracas
 The Hobbit / int_694b5717
comment
Minion Maracas: Thorin picks up Bilbo and "shakes him like a rabbit" when he learns that the latter has stolen the Arkenstone and given it to the Men and Elves besieging the mountain. (At least, Gandalf manages to convince Thorin to not throw Bilbo down the wall.)
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 The Hobbit / int_6a3c49f
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Direct Line to the Author
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comment
Direct Line to the Author: The story is "compiled" from Bilbo's memoirs. This was exploited by Tolkien when he wanted to change the backstory of Bilbo finding the Ring to fit with The Lord of the Rings while he was writing it — the first edition represents Bilbo being economical with the truth.
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 The Hobbit / int_6a4a2085
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Legally Dead
 The Hobbit / int_6a4a2085
comment
Legally Dead: When Bilbo returns to Bag End after one year of absence, he finds he has been presumed dead and his heirs are just holding an auction on his possessions. Since it's not so easy to convince the authorities that he is still alive, he resorts to buying much of his own stuff back to save time and bother—he's certainly rich enough to do it easily now.
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 The Hobbit / int_6a6b23ff
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Unfazed Everyman
 The Hobbit / int_6a6b23ff
comment
Unfazed Everyman: Bilbo. While he has grown up aware that magical people and things exist, like most hobbits he has little knowledge about and zero first-hand experience with it until that one fateful day.
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 The Hobbit / int_6b05b601
type
Jerkass Has a Point
 The Hobbit / int_6b05b601
comment
Jerkass Has a Point: After Smaug destroys Laketown and is slain, the survivors want to make Bard their new king. The current Master of Laketown concedes to step down if need be, but asks why he's being blamed for Smaug's attack, when it was the Company that went into Lonely Mountain and stirred him up. Thus he keeps his job for a little while longer.
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 The Hobbit / int_6b35bdff
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Serious Business
 The Hobbit / int_6b35bdff
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Serious Business: In-universe, the riddle game is regarded as "sacred" and the prose says that even a lowly creature like Gollum is hesitant to cheat at it. The sequel mentions that there's in-universe debate over whether Bilbo's last question is technically cheating, but it gets a pass because Gollum negotiated special rules (he accepted it on the condition of getting extra guesses) and therefore loses any grounds to challenge it.
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 The Hobbit / int_6b983bf7
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Unstoppable Rage
 The Hobbit / int_6b983bf7
comment
Taking a single piece of treasure from Smaug's hoard sends the dragon into an Unstoppable Rage that scorches the whole mountainside.
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 The Hobbit / int_6bda9a30
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Meaningful Name
 The Hobbit / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: "Beorn" is Old English for "bear" (cognate with the Scandinavian "bjørn").
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 The Hobbit / int_6d57a234
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Lemony Narrator
 The Hobbit / int_6d57a234
comment
Lemony Narrator: Tolkien, as narrator, interjects several asides to the audience in each chapter. Since the book is presented as being compiled from Bilbo's memoirs, it is up for debate about how much of this style is derived from the original text.
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Shut Up, Kirk!
 The Hobbit / int_6eeba1cb
comment
Shut Up, Kirk!: Bilbo delivers several pointed rebukes to the Dwarves when he finds them unreasonable or pompous, particularly when Thorin starts speechifying before he sends Bilbo down into the dragon's lair.
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 The Hobbit / int_6fafb9ba
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OffStageVillainy
 The Hobbit / int_6fafb9ba
comment
Off Stage Villainy: The Necromancer. Gandalf's dialogue implies his villainy is very infamous. Apart from the implied torture of Thorin's father, none of it is actually elaborated on.
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 The Hobbit / int_6fc21d06
type
Fiction 500
 The Hobbit / int_6fc21d06
comment
Fiction 500: Smaug sleeps atop a mound of coins and jewelry and his hideout has many more riches. Forbes magazine has estimated the value of Smaug's hoard at $62 billion, amending an earlier evaluation of $8 billion.
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 The Hobbit / int_71e592a0
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Non-Action Protagonist
 The Hobbit / int_71e592a0
comment
Non-Action Protagonist: Peaceful hobbit Bilbo Baggins is hired to be a thief in a company of rough-and-tumble dwarven warriors. While he starts out a stuffy Classical Anti-Hero, he later proves his mettle through his wits. Nonetheless, he misses the entire Battle of the Five Armies because he got knocked out early in.
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 The Hobbit / int_723be11b
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Villain Has a Point
 The Hobbit / int_723be11b
comment
Villain Has a Point: While Bilbo speaks with Smaug, the wicked and greedy dragon brings to the hobbit's attention something he hasn't thought about concerning the Company's quest to take Erebor back from Smaug; even if it were possible for the hobbit to claim his promised share of the treasure without Smaug having a say in it, he couldn't get far away with it all. Despite knowing that Smaug is trying to play mind games with him, Bilbo cannot help but be troubled to realize this.
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 The Hobbit / int_75b23b58
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Sundial Waypoint
 The Hobbit / int_75b23b58
comment
Sundial Waypoint: The moon-runes needed to find the secret door into the mountain can only be read under the same phase of the moon in which they were written. The keyhole to the door is likewise revealed by the last light of Durin's Day.
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 The Hobbit / int_762b9223
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Played for Laughs
 The Hobbit / int_762b9223
comment
Bilbo feels obligated to offer hospitality to thirteen total strangers on the basis that they show up at mealtime. Played for Laughs with his abject horror as the numbers grow and he realizes he might not see any of the two beautiful cakes he'd baked for himself—because as host it would be his duty to go without rather than take a slice and leave a guest without one.
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 The Hobbit / int_7836c43
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Casting a Shadow
 The Hobbit / int_7836c43
comment
Casting a Shadow: The webs that the Mirkwood spiders produce are extremely dark.
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 The Hobbit / int_792fef74
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Cute, but Cacophonic
 The Hobbit / int_792fef74
comment
Cute, but Cacophonic: Bilbo gives out a loud warning shout in the cave.
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 The Hobbit / int_7a0030a9
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Cargo Concealment Caper
 The Hobbit / int_7a0030a9
comment
Cargo Concealment Caper: The dwarves get away from the elves by hiding inside empty barrels that the elves send downriver.
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Legendary Weapon
 The Hobbit / int_7b047cb2
comment
Legendary Weapon: Early in the book, the party recovers a small treasure hoard from some trolls. Among the hoard are a pair of legendary elvish blades, Orcrist the Goblin-Cleaver and Glamdring the Foe-Hammer, two legendary swords forged millennia earlier by the elves of Gondolin. Thorin Oakenshield takes Orcrist and it's eventually buried with him, while Gandalf takes Glamdring. The swords are legendary (in the sense of being extremely notorious) among the goblins themselves as well, and they instantly recognize them.
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 The Hobbit / int_7b50237d
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Distinction Without a Difference
 The Hobbit / int_7b50237d
comment
Distinction Without a Difference: When trying to recruit Bilbo Baggins into adventuring with the dwarven party...
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HorseOfADifferentColour
 The Hobbit / int_7e2caff3
comment
Horse of a Different Colour: Goblins ride large, sapient, evil wolves into battle. This is explicitly an alliance as well, the Wargs have a completely separate social structure and don't even live with the Goblins normally.
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 The Hobbit / int_7fbb2a3
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 The Hobbit / int_7fbb2a3
comment
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Throughout the journey, the dwarves just keep stumbling into trouble and making a royal mess of things. First, they stumble right into a goblin lair. The incident results in the Great Goblin's death. Hence, the goblins and wargs band together and set out for revenge, gathering an army in the process, which catches up to them near the end. The dwarves are then caught by the Wood Elves, and due to the mutual Fantastic Racism, refuse to tell them their motives. They're imprisoned, and upon escaping, the Elves become even more suspicious and angry with them. Bilbo wakes the dragon (a risky proposition to begin with). Then, while pelting the dragon with riddles, he accidentally gives Smaug the impression that he was one of the Lake-men by calling himself a "barrel rider." Smaug proceeds to go on a rampage on Laketown, and the survivors aren't happy with them for it. Bilbo himself, in stealing the Arkenstone and handing it over to the Elvenking and Bard, raises tensions between them and Thorin from merely a Mexican standoff/cold war to imminent bloodshed, despite his good intentions.
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 The Hobbit / int_7febc23b
type
Establishing Character Moment
 The Hobbit / int_7febc23b
comment
Establishing Character Moment: Thorin is the only dwarf not to greet Bilbo with "at your service." He is also the only one not to help clean the dishes.
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The Chooser of the One
 The Hobbit / int_80ed013b
comment
The Chooser of the One: Gandalf picks out Bilbo, personally, to help the dwarves' quest.
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Attack Its Weak Point
 The Hobbit / int_82108e3d
comment
Attack Its Weak Point: Smaug has exactly one vulnerable spot on his whole body, which Bard is informed of as he readies his final arrow.
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 The Hobbit / int_830b0ac9
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Final Battle
 The Hobbit / int_830b0ac9
comment
Final Battle: The Battle of Five Armies, in which everybody and the local werebear converge on the Lonely Mountain to fight over the loot.
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type
Interspecies Romance
 The Hobbit / int_8485d41a
comment
Interspecies Romance: It's speculated that someone on the Tooks' family tree married into a fairy family, which accounts for the adventurous nature in those of Took blood. However, the narrator says, "This, of course, is absurd," and the whole thing is presented as a slur on the Took family rather than a practical possibility. Played entirely straight with Elrond, who is explicitly described as having "both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors". (Elrond's unique background is later codified in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion).
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Riddle Me This
 The Hobbit / int_8510238b
comment
Riddle Me This: The riddle contest between Gollum and Bilbo. It's a hobbit thing, apparently.
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The Fair Folk
 The Hobbit / int_859ec5d8
comment
The Fair Folk: The elves of Rivendell aren't tricksters, but they are merry, quick to laugh at the Company, and break into song a lot. The narrator says that Wood Elves can be a lot closer to this than High Elves. They're first seen partying in fairy-rings that wink out when the dwarves try to enter.
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Nobody Here but Us Birds
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Nobody Here but Us Birds: "Hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl." Parodied in that Bilbo can't even do a generic owl sound, much less specific ones.
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Badass Boast
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Badass Boast: Bilbo and Smaug have a badass boast competition. Smaug's set the standard for how a fantasy dragon should look, talk, and act.
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Cultured Badass
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Cultured Badass: Pretty much all the protagonist dwarves, shown when they break out musical instruments (Thorin himself plays a harp) and explain their purpose to Bilbo by way of singing "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold".
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Stating the Simple Solution
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Stating the Simple Solution: Played with. When they finally arrive at the entrance to Mirkwood, Bilbo asks Gandalf why they can't just go around the dangerous forest. Gandalf points out that going around would require them traveling a further 200 miles north or 400 miles south. Additionally, the dangers of that are greater than just going through it. (The north is bordered by mountains with vicious goblins, the south is bordered by the lands of a dangerous necromancer.)
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Story-Breaker Power
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Story-Breaker Power: The reason the Eagles won't take the group all the way to the Lonely Mountain is due to the Lord of the Eagles not willing to venture anywhere near men due to the risk of being shot down by arrows when the men fear the loss of their livestock. Indeed, Gandalf once even helped mend an arrow wound the Lord suffered. They do return for the Battle of the Five Armies, averting Deus Exit Machina. Gandalf leaves the group before they enter Mirkwood, and reappears just in time at the end to warn the good guys of the coming attack. In the original edition, his dealing with a random Necromancer was just the author's excuse to get him out of the way.
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Fire/Water Juxtaposition
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Fire/Water Juxtaposition: The fourteenth chapter, "Fire and Water".
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Creepy Cave
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Creepy Cave: Bilbo and the dwarves (technically used to caves and often living in them) learn the danger of caves the hard way: They take shelter from a storm in what seems to be a small cave in the mountainside, but turns out to be the vestibule to the vast caverns inhabited by the evil mountain goblins, who truss the entire party and carry them deep into their lair. During their escape, Bilbo is dropped and wanders blindly into the depths of the caves (being a hobbit, the narration points out this is much less scary and safer for him than it would be for a human), ending up at a subterranean lake where he meets Gollum, who wants very much to eat him. The chapter is also where he stumbles upon his magic ring, which will later turn out to be the most evil object in the world.
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Didn't Think This Through
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Didn't Think This Through: Both Gandalf and Bilbo point out several times that at no point had the Dwarves ever given serious thought to how exactly they would actually get rid of Smaug once they got to the Lonely Mountain. After Bilbo manages to get the dwarves into barrels to escape the Elf King's palace, he realizes that he didn't put a barrel aside for himself and that there is no one to seal him into a barrel even if he had one. This is lampshaded by the narrator saying the readers likely saw the fault in his plan long before Bilbo did, but the narrator also challenges the readers if they could have done any better in Bilbo's situation. In his conversation with Bilbo, Smaug points out the obvious futility of Bilbo's mission: Without a way to get rid of the dragon, stealing the hoard piece by piece under the eyes of the dragon would take "maybe a hundred years", and even then there would be no way for Bilbo to get his promised share of the hoard (a fourteenth) safely home to Bag End. Bilbo is completely stumped, having never thought this far ahead. When he mentions it to the dwarves shortly after, they admit that they hadn't thought of it either.
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Bears Are Bad News
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Bears Are Bad News: Beorn plays The Berserker trope quite literally, being a Voluntary Shapeshifter who becomes an enormous bear in battle. You definitely don't want to cross him, though fortunately, he's mostly Bad News only to goblins and wolves.
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Our Goblins Are Different
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Our Goblins Are Different: The story is "teeming with goblins, hobgoblins and orcs of the worst description!". "Orc" and "goblin" are used interchangeably, with Orc said to be the untranslated Westron word for goblin; see for example the sword Orcrist, and its translated name, the Goblin-Cleaver.
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Hobbits
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Hobbits: Trope Maker, Trope Namer, Trope Codifier, and most likely Ur-Example as well.
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Stolen MacGuffin Reveal
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Stolen MacGuffin Reveal: Bilbo gets to do this a few times, most dramatically with the Arkenstone.
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Rewrite
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Rewrite: In the original edition of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly offered the Ring as the prize for winning the riddle game, and after losing game he was disappointed when he couldn't find the Ring (because he thought he might be accused of cheating at the game). He offered leading Bilbo out of the caves as a sort of consolation prize, and the two parted company amicably. After Tolkien had started working on The Lord of the Rings and decided that the ring was an Artifact of Attraction that had corrupted Gollum, this no longer fit the character of Gollum nor the nature of the ring, so Tolkien rewrote chapter 5 of The Hobbit in the 1951 second edition. In this edition, leading Bilbo out of the caves is the stated prize for winning the riddle contest from the beginning, and Gollum goes berserk and tries to murder Bilbo after guessing that he must have found the Ring, proclaiming his undying hatred of "Baggins" as Bilbo escapes him. The Lord of the Rings mentions that Bilbo put the first version in his memoirs, with the current version implied as being a re-write by Frodo telling the true story. It's suggested that Bilbo's earlier "lie" may have been due to the bad influence of the Ring's magic, with Bilbo trying to shore up his claim to ownership. In a lesser note, some other, smaller details were also changed. For example, Bilbo's chainmail shirt changes from "silvered steel" into "silver-steel", and finally to "silver-steel that the elves called mithril."
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Inflationary Dialogue
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Inflationary Dialogue: In Gandalf's account to Beorn, the number of dwarves continually inflates, starting at "one or two" and ending accurately. Beorn does not fail to notice, but it succeeds at preventing a meltdown in negotiations.
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: Gollum becomes very polite when he sees Bilbo has a sword. "Praps we sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my precioussss. It likes riddles, praps it does, does it?" Smaug is extremely articulate when Bilbo sneaks into his lair, and has some enjoyment in conversing with him and trying to puzzle out Bilbo's riddling, but he would have killed Bilbo immediately if he could see him, and at the same time makes no attempt to hide that he's a merciless killer.
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Enchanted Forest
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Enchanted Forest: Mirkwood is a sea of huge, ancient trees, under which there is perpetual darkness, and the sky cannot be seen at all. There are very few paths through it, and crossing it takes several weeks. The few sources of water there are may be enchanted. If you get lost (which is awfully easy, as the wood is apparently under a spell), your best hope is to be captured by inhospitable elves before you starve, the giant spiders get you, or (still worse) you stumble into the realm of the Necromancer. All things considered, best don't go there at all.
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In the Blood
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In the Blood: The Took side of Bilbo's family is well-known as the adventuring sort, and more than once, when Bilbo does something crazy or brave, the narrator notes that perhaps the Took side took hold of him. Naturally, decent hobbits consider them nuts.
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Mass "Oh, Crap!"
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": "The bells were ringing in the dale/And men looked up with faces pale."
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Nature Hero
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Nature Hero: Beorn, a vegetarian who lives alone in a cabin, talks to animals, and turns into a bear. Don't mention furs or hunting in his presence.
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Elves Versus Dwarves
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The dwarves are then caught by the Wood Elves, and due to the mutual Fantastic Racism, refuse to tell them their motives. They're imprisoned, and upon escaping, the Elves become even more suspicious and angry with them.
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Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
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Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: "Never laugh at live dragons." Wise words!
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Took a Level in Badass
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Took a Level in Badass: Bilbo starts out doing as well as you'd expect a homebody away from home would do. He gets better, with the description of his first spider kill almost coming across as gaining a Character Level. The dwarves themselves are rather bumbling for most of the book. They all are quite badass in the Battle of Five Armies however.
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Giant Spider
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Giant Spider: Talking, man-eating, venomous spiders the size of people infest Mirkwood. It's enough to make one wonder why the elves still live there.
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Conflict Killer
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Conflict Killer: The Men of Laketown and the Elves want to grab the treasure (and get revenge on Thorin's group for unleashing Smaug on them, however unwittingly) but Thorin has called in dwarven reinforcements. The two sides are gearing up to fight when the goblin army attacks, forcing an Enemy Mine.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: When Thorin is telling Bilbo at the beginning about how Smaug stole the dwarves' treasures, he remarks that dragons "can't make a thing for themselves, not even mend a little loose scale of their armour". Bilbo eventually discovers that Smaug's physical weak point is a gap in his armour. Fili and Kili are the first of the Company to face mortal danger, nearly drowning while trying to retrieve the bolting ponies. They later die protecting Thorin at the Battle of the Five Armies.
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Danger with a Deadline
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Danger with a Deadline: Gandalf notices that trolls have caught Bilbo and the dwarves, so from his hiding place Gandalf disguises his voice to keep reigniting the trolls' argument over how to prepare the dwarves and hobbit for eating, stalling for time until the sunrise turns the trolls to stone.
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Evil Takes a Nap
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Evil Takes a Nap: The evil dragon Smaug spends most of his time sleeping on top of his Dragon Hoard after wrecking the dwarf kingdom to seize it. It's only after Bilbo wakes him up that he goes outside to spread death and destruction again.
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Glowing Gem
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Glowing Gem: The Arkenstone is described as shining with its own pale light even in the darkness.
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A Light in the Distance
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A Light in the Distance When the starving travellers see the elven-lights in Mirkwood, they eagerly leave the trail hoping to beg for food. This, unfortunately, only gets them more hopelessly lost. The encounter with the trolls began this way.
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Exploring the Evil Lair
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Exploring the Evil Lair: Bilbo exploring the goblin tunnels, and later Smaug's lair.
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Land of Faerie
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Land of Faerie: One of the facts the narrator gives about the Wood-elves is that they "were descended from the ancient tribes that never went to Faerie in the West", suggesting that Faerie is a distant land across the sea. It is also mentioned that the elves who went to Faerie "grew fairer and wiser and more learned" than the Wood-elves.
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The Dissenter Is Always Right
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The Dissenter Is Always Right: When the men of Laketown see fire burning on the mountain, most of them think that Thorin and the other dwarves have retaken it and lit their forges, with only Bard suggesting that the fire means the dragon is coming to attack the city. Everyone tells him to stop being so gloomy but he raises the alarm anyway, so it's thanks to him that the town even survived long enough for him to kill Smaug.
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Ye Goode Olde Days
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Ye Goode Olde Days: "Long ago, when there was less noise in the world and more green..."
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Herald
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Herald: Gandalf deliberately sets up the whole adventure by dragging Bilbo into it, and selling him to the dwarves as some sort of professional burglar... or something.
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The Chosen Zero
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The Chosen Zero: The dwarves react to Bilbo as one. Ironically, he doesn't even know he's been hired as an adventurer.
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Supporting Leader
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Supporting Leader: Bard the Bowman and Dáin Ironfoot. Both are royalty and straight-up badasses who lead the defenders of Laketown and the army of the Iron Hills respectively; compare them with the central protagonist Bilbo, who is just a well-to-do hobbit and a Guile Hero, caught up in an adventure he didn't expect.
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One-Hit Kill
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One-Hit Kill: To be fair, Smaug got hit lots of times before, but none of those arrows were able to penetrate his armor.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: At first, it seems like a classic adventure story... then, Smaug annihilates Laketown and kills hundreds of people, then he dies... and eventually, Thorin goes mad, armies besiege Erebor and tens of thousands of men, elves and dwarves are killed in the Battle of the Five Armies, including Thorin, Kili and Fili.
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Physical God
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A literal example are the eagles of Manwë, who save the day out of nowhere on multiple occasions. In his private writings, Tolkien himself called them a "dangerous machine", lampshading this trope. At one point they save the day when the group is trapped on trees at the edge of a cliff; later on, they arrive out of nowhere to tip the scales in the final battle.
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MacGuffin
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MacGuffin: The hoard as a whole applies to all three main "good" factions — Dwarves only at first and what starts the plot, but soon it's revealed Smaug's stolen stuff from the Wood Elves of Mirkwood and the men of Long Lake and Dale as well. The final third or so then limits this to the Arkenstone, a particular piece that is specially Dwarven-crafted and functions almost like a magical forge-runner, but because it's been tinged with a bit of cursed dragon-magic that makes Thorin particularly paranoid and jealous about it being given away and thinks the men and Elves are after it over all the other portions of the hoard.
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Classical Anti-Hero
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Bilbo starts off as a Classical Antihero, often left a bystander while events happen around him. However after choosing to spare Gollum, and especially in Mirkwood, he manages to become more of a straight hero.
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Beneath the Earth
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Beneath the Earth: A number of examples; almost everyone seems to live underground. Bilbo lives in Bag End, the hobbit-hole that is quite literally "under hill" (though with many windows). The visit to "Goblin-town" and Gollum finds them in caves under a mountain range. The elves live in a cave system in Mirkwood. Smaug, and before and after him the dwarves, live under the Lonely Mountain, the dwarf king being known as King Under the Mountain.
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Keep the Reward
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Keep the Reward: After all is said and done, Bilbo only takes two chests of gold and silver back to the Shire. It's more than he needs and all that his pony can carry, and he knows he'd never be able to get his full promised share back home without running into a lot of trouble on the way.
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I Should Write a Book About This
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I Should Write a Book About This: And Bilbo does, resulting in the Memoirs There and Back Again: A Hobbit's Holiday, which cheekily is stated by Tolkien to be the novel's "base".
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: When the evil wargs chase the party, they are described as having shining red eyes. The very evil and malicious dragon Smaug has red eyes which emit searchlight-like beams.
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Hidden Elf Village
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Hidden Elf Village: Rivendell, literally a hidden elf town at the bottom of a ravine.
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Covert Distress Code
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Covert Distress Code: When Bilbo is preparing to sneak up on some trolls, he's told that should he get into serious trouble, "hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl, and we will do what we can"—however, it turns out Bilbo doesn't actually know how to make the correct owl sounds, so it doesn't do him any good.
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Luke Nounverber
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Luke Nounverber: But done as actual earned epithets, such as Thorin Oakenshield and Dáin Ironfoot, who earned their names in the Goblin Wars—Thorin, for example, had his shield broken in battle and replaced it with an oak branch, which he ripped off the tree in the middle of the fight.
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Thorin refuses to share the treasure and is ready to go to war with the Elves of Mirkwood and men of Esgaroth to defend it. Then Bolg shows up and his sudden attack brings the free peoples together.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: "What has it got in its pocketses?!?" Cue Gollum wigging out.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: The Lemony Narrator has a number of wry comments to make on Bilbo, the dwarves, the nature of rich people, and even chides the reader once or twice for thinking they must be cleverer than the characters just because they're sitting comfortably at home and not trying to think in the midst of danger.
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Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
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Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Gandalf and most of the dwarves are named after dwarfs mentioned in one of the poems in the Poetic Edda, as is possibly Bilbo as well — the poem mentions dwarfs named Billingr and Bildr.
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Pragmatic Hero
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Thorin is probably a Pragmatic Hero, as he is mostly noble and charismatic, but allows his greed and pride to almost push him into starting a war, though he ultimately repents of that.
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Robe and Wizard Hat
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Robe and Wizard Hat: "I am Gandalf, and 'Gandalf' means me!"
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"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
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"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word:
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And Then What?
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And Then What?: When Bilbo brings up the subject of just how he's supposed to get his share home, the dwarves themselves admit they didn't think about what they'd do after they got back their treasure. Thorin finally says that once Smaug has actually been dealt with, they'll have plenty of time to think about the issue.
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Aerith and Bob
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Aerith and Bob: The trolls Bert, Tom and Bill (who even has a last name, Huggins) exist alongside Bilbo, Gandalf, Thorin and Smaug.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: The Great Goblin at first appears willing to be civil to the company, or at least as civil as a goblin can get, interrogating them without resorting to torture just yet. Then when it's revealed that Thorin is carrying Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, he goes absolutely ballistic! Gandalf warns Bilbo that it would be a very, very bad idea to talk about fur-trading around Beorn. Wisely, they don't. Taking a single piece of treasure from Smaug's hoard sends the dragon into an Unstoppable Rage that scorches the whole mountainside.
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Gentleman Adventurer
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Gentleman Adventurer: Bilbo is a gentleman, not stinking rich, but "well-to-do" by hobbit standards and of a fairly high-status family in his homeland.
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Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
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Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: With the help of the Ring and a little riddling talk, Bilbo manages to have an almost civil conversation with Smaug, but just before he leaves he makes a parting shot about Smaug needing his rest since ponies take some effort to catch when they have a head start, "And so do burglars." As the narrator notes, "It was an unfortunate remark," since Smaug almost roasts him alive as he runs up the tunnel to the secret door. Smaug then goes off and burns down Laketown.
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Shrouded in Myth
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Shrouded in Myth: Gandalf the Grey. As later material shows, a large part of the reason for this is that Gandalf goes where he is needed, so he's always in areas with lots of stuff happening. It's given him the nickname "Stormcrow", like a flock of crows getting ready to pick over the bodies after a battle, and after a while a lot of people don't like him, thinking his presence causes problems, rather than him being there to help fix them. As Tolkien's narration puts it:
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Bilbo starts off as a Classical Antihero, often left a bystander while events happen around him. However after choosing to spare Gollum, and especially in Mirkwood, he manages to become more of a straight hero. Thorin is probably a Pragmatic Hero, as he is mostly noble and charismatic, but allows his greed and pride to almost push him into starting a war, though he ultimately repents of that. The Elvenking fits a Knight in Sour Armor quite well. While isolationist and distrustful toward the Dwarves, he shows kindness to the survivors of Laketown and is more reluctant to begin a war for gold than any of his peers.
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Standing Between the Enemies
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Standing Between the Enemies: Gandalf stands between the Three Armies (human, elf, and dwarf) to point out that their common enemies the goblins are approaching on warg-back.
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Crisis Catch-and-Carry
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Crisis Catch And Carry: While escaping through the Goblin tunnels, Bilbo has trouble keeping up, so each of the dwarves takes a turn carrying him.
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Dragon Hoard
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Dragon Hoard: Smaug destroyed the Kingdoms of Lonely Mountain and Dale solely to rob the kings' treasures. He heaped them up in a vault where he spends most of his time just sleeping on it. This habit also has the advantage that the coins and gems grow into his sticky, glowing hot skin, thus providing him with additional armor. When Bilbo steals a single cup from the sleeping dragon's hoard, Smaug detects the loss immediately upon waking, which implies he has a minute knowledge of his hoard that exceeds human mental capabilities; the narrator even lampshades this by saying that even if dragons never spend a single bit of their treasure, they "usually have a fair idea of the market value."
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Character Level
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Bilbo starts out doing as well as you'd expect a homebody away from home would do. He gets better, with the description of his first spider kill almost coming across as gaining a Character Level.
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Cutting the Knot
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Cutting the Knot: Smaug can't fit through the hole Bilbo uses to get after him. So he flies to where he calculates the hole must come out and smashes the mountainside to bits.
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Generic Doomsday Villain
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Generic Doomsday Villain: The Necromancer due to him never actually appearing on-screen. He is described as a dangerous villain whom Gandalf considers facing more important than Thorin's quest, but the reader learns nothing about him since nothing about the battle with him or his actual villainy is elaborated on. Ultimately he's less a villain than an excuse to keep Gandalf out of the story. Which gets inverted by the time the main Lord of the Rings trilogy comes around, as Gandalf doing battle with the Necromancer is expanded to be Sauron before coming back to power. Thus important to the wider-scale lore but purely background to the Dwarves' quest.
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By the Lights of Their Eyes
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By the Lights of Their Eyes: When the party is sleeping in pitch-dark Mirkwood Forest at night and Bilbo is on guard duty, he sees the eyes of multiple forest creatures glowing in the dark, watching them.
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Bilbo spends the climax of the Battle of Five Armies knocked unconscious after a rock hits him in the head. When he wakes up, he's told that Beorn even entered the fray in bear form!
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Psychic Dreams for Everyone
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Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Smaug, of all individuals, has one about Bilbo before they meet.
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 The Hobbit / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The moon runes and Sundial Waypoint clues to Erebor's secret entrance are fantasy-flavoured versions of similar clues in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. The opening narration of the first edition mentions that Hobbits are "smaller than dwarves... but very much larger than Lilliputians". Whether this is the Lemony Narrator using a species from a more well-known work of fiction (at the time) to give the reader a rough idea of what size Hobbits are, or an implication that Lilliputians exist in Middle-Earth, is unknown.
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Spiders Are Scary
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Spiders Are Scary: Tolkien's son Michael was terrified of spiders as a child (and Tolkien himself was bitten by a tarantula as a child, although he stated this did not affect him). The descriptions of Mirkwood's massive, gluttonous, and malicious spiders draws from that (although their dialogue makes them a bit less scary than Ungoliant and Shelob).
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The Power of Language
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The Power of Language: One of the book's Central Themes. From the Dwarves' song which first inspires Bilbo to go on his adventure to Gandalf's verbal spellcasting to Bard being saved by his inherited ability to communicate with thrushes, great narrative emphasis is placed on the power of the right words at the right time. Bilbo himself, as a Guile Hero, learns how to effectively Talk His Way Out of sticky situations—first by winning his life in a riddle contest, and later by talking circles around Smaug.
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Bard's Black Arrow is supposedly of Dwarven craftsmanship, but there's no visible sign that it has any magical properties. That said, every time Bard has used it, it always hit its mark, and he's always been able to recover it. Shooting it at Smaug proved to be no exception, as it hit the one part of the dragon's body not covered by an impenetrable scale and killed the beast. The arrow, however, is not recovered this time—almost as though it had fulfilled its destiny.
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Deus Exit Machina
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The reason the Eagles won't take the group all the way to the Lonely Mountain is due to the Lord of the Eagles not willing to venture anywhere near men due to the risk of being shot down by arrows when the men fear the loss of their livestock. Indeed, Gandalf once even helped mend an arrow wound the Lord suffered. They do return for the Battle of the Five Armies, averting Deus Exit Machina.
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Damned by Faint Praise
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Like the elves, Tolkien's dwarves were originally based primarily on Norse mythology, where they are almost always antagonists. While never depicted as servants of Morgoth, The Silmarillion includes several accounts of dwarves acting as antagonists, especially the treacherous "petty" dwarves. Some of this conception carries over to The Hobbit, despite the dwarves being Bilbo's friends and companions. When the dwarves refuse to send anyone to accompany Bilbo into the dragon's lair, the narrator notes that "dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots", and describes good-aligned dwarves like Thorin and Company as "decent enough people, if you don't expect too much." By the time of The Lord of the Rings and later drafts of The Silmarillion, several entirely heroic dwarves have appeared in the narrative, most prominently Gimli.note Although it is an open question as to how exceptional Gimli is when compared to other dwarves. Dwarves are also described there as among the most resistant to Sauron's corruption. Gimli also says that it is quality workmanship and aesthetics that dwarves value, not really monetary value, to the point of leaving gold or other valuable materials in natural caves untouched if mining them would spoil a cave's beauty.
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Boring Return Journey
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Boring Return Journey: While Bilbo does have (unspecified) troubles on his return journey, "he was never in great danger"—mainly because this time, Gandalf is with him all the way and the region's goblins have just had their butts whupped and are in hiding.
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Nothing Is Scarier
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Nothing Is Scarier: The lightless tunnel to Smaug's lair is so terrifying to Bilbo that actually seeing the giant dragon in all his gold-encrusted glory comes as a relief! Later, when the Company is forced to retreat into Lonely Mountain after Smaug goes on a rampage, Bilbo becomes so frightened at the silence when the dragon doesn't come back that he wishes Smaug would return just to break the monotony.
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Clever Crows
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Clever Crows: The talking ravens that live near the Lonely Mountain are friendly to the Dwarves (unlike the crows, which ravens despise).
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Not Always Evil
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Not Always Evil: The Wood Elves. Elves and dwarves have a mixed history, so they mutually distrust each other to begin with. When the starving Dwarves of Thorin's Company disturb the Elves' forest banquets they assume they are attacking, and then the dwarves' presence stirs up the spiders, who are the enemies of the Elves. For their part, when they are captured by the elves they refuse to say why they're in the wood, making the Elves more suspicious. The Elves turn out to be a lot nicer later on, helping the Lake men to build shelters and find food after the destruction of their city by the dragon. During the Battle of the Five Armies, Bilbo decides he had rather make his Last Stand with the Elves than anywhere else. The men of the lake gave aid to the Dwarves when they first showed up but later sent an army to take their gold. But when the orc and wolf armies show up, they immediately join forces with the Dwarves again.
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Incoming Ham
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Incoming Ham: Thorin. "I am Thorin son of Thráin son of Thrór King Under the Mountain! I return!"
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Taken for Granite
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Taken for Granite: The trolls turn to stone if caught outside in sunlight. Too bad for them, they aren't bright enough to remember this.
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"Eureka!" Moment
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"Eureka!" Moment: Bilbo is struggling with one of Gollum's riddles, when a fish brushes by his foot. This makes him realize that the answer is in fact fish.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Gandalf starts to scold Bilbo when he asks if they have to go through Mirkwood without him. He thought Bilbo meant to give up and go home. Bilbo is quick to explain that he was just wondering if there was a way to go around the wood rather than through. Gandalf has some choice words for Thorin when he finds him ready to start a war to avoid giving up any of his gold: During the same scene, Bilbo gives Thorin a pretty solid rebuke when the latter savagely turns on him for giving away the Arkenstone:
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Magic Map
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Magic Map: The map of the Lonely Mountain is just a regular map most of the time, but in the light of a certain phase of the moon it reveals information crucial to getting into the mountain alive.
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Neither the Elvenking nor the Master of Laketown are named during the course of the book, though the Elvenking is later given a name in The Lord of the Rings.
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Depending on the Artist
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Depending on the Artist: Tolkien always had a specific design for Gollum in mind, and tried his best to write of that in the text. The way he looks in the Peter Jackson films (and most book printings from the '60s onward) is pretty much how everyone expects Gollum to look. However, in the earliest printings of the book, the illustrators hired had very different ideas for Gollum's appearance, so it can be strange to look through old printings and see Gollum looking like a strange yeti◊ in one printing, while looking eel-like in another.◊ The Rankin-Bass Gollum◊, meanwhile, ends up being a kind of an intermediate step (which notably still influenced the Serkis/Jackson Gollum) — he's got the general shape and manner one would expect of a Hobbit ruined by centuries of quasi-unlife, though he's still a fair bit bigger than Bilbo, and also has a somewhat amphibian-like mouth and skin texture, and most notably has extremely large, fish-like eyes, the production purpose of which seems to be to make it easier to depict the "fell light" Tolkien mentions shining in them. (Interestingly, when R-B got to Return of the King, they revised his design a bit◊ to more match certain revelations in LotR and make his kinship to the Hobbits a bit more clear.)
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Our Dragons Are Different
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Our Dragons Are Different: Smaug is a huge winged, scaly, firebreathing, gold-hoarding, sentient and intelligent reptilian monster that can talk. Tolkien confirmed that Smaug is a fusion of the dragon from Beowulf (a winged creature of fire) and Fafnir from the Völsunga saga (huge size, talks, has a personal name). Through its influence on the fantasy genre, The Hobbit re-introduced intelligent, talking dragons to literature.
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The Cavalry
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The Cavalry: The Eagles. Bilbo unwittingly rallies the Dwarven, Human, and Elven forces when he sees the Eagles on the horizon and announces their arrival. Then he gets hit in the head with a rock and passes out for the duration.
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Foe-Tossing Charge
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Foe-Tossing Charge: Beorn does this during the Battle of the Five Armies, on his way to rescue Thorin.
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Contrived Coincidence
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Contrived Coincidence: By astonishing luck, Thorin is in Rivendell and Elrond asks to see his map on the one day in the year when the moon-letters on it can be read. By even more astonishing luck, the moon is in exactly the right phase to allow him to read it, something which presumably happens only about once every 29 years!!! The movie lampshades this with Elrond's offhand remark, "Fate is with you, Thorin Oakenshield."
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Cue the Sun
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Cue the Sun: Bilbo's rescue from the trolls. Gandalf, unseen, keeps re-igniting the argument the trolls have about how to cook the prisoners until the dawn turns them to stone, effectively Talking the Monster to Death.
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City of Canals
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City of Canals: Laketown is built on the surface of Long Lake. Which sounds like decent protection from dragons until you realize how rickety that would make it... oh, and flammable. Did we mention Smaug flies and breathes fire?
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Rightful King Returns
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Rightful King Returns: Bard brings the line of Girion back to rulership of Dale, and Thorin intended to take the Lonely Mountain back for the line of Durin.
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Last of His Kind
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Last of His Kind: Smaug is said to be the last of the "great dragons", though this implies there are still less impressive dragons.
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Clothing Damage
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Clothing Damage: Bilbo tears his coat and loses several buttons when he gets caught in the doorway escaping from the goblins' lair.
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Verbal Tic Name
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Verbal Tic Name: Gollum owes his name to the gulping noise he habitually makes in his throat.
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The Load
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The Load: How the company initially view Bilbo. This changes after he saves them from the spiders.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: Bilbo justifies giving away the Arkenstone by pointing out that Thorin promised he could pick his own share of the treasure. He Lampshades this to himself by noting that that probably wasn't what Thorin meant.
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Hostage-Handler Huddle
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Hostage-Handler Huddle: When the trolls capture Bilbo and the dwarves, they quickly get into an argument as they can't agree on how to cook them, with each troll putting in his own suggestion for how to prepare their meal and disagreeing with the others'. Every time the trolls start to agree, an outside voice (which later turns out to have been Gandalf) chimes in and restarts their argument. This persists so long, the sunrise catches them by surprise and turns them into stone.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Quite a few times. Gandalf saves the dwarves and Bilbo from the goblins. The eagles save the whole crew right in the nick of time. Bilbo saves the dwarves from the spiders. Beorn's and the eagles' arrival at the Battle of the Five Armies basically turns the tide. Thorin and his original twelve companions charging from their fortress to attack the goblins' general and his bodyguard that had been tearing the heart out of the allies' line.
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Underground City
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Underground City: The dwarven city under the Lonely Mountain and the Elven King's hall in Mirkwood.
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Named Weapons
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Named Weapons: Glamdring, the Foe Hammer; Orcrist, the Goblin Cleaver; and Sting. Glamdring and Orcrist are famous enough that the goblins recognize them on sight, calling them "Beater" and "Biter" respectively.
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Mundane Utility
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Mundane Utility: It's mentioned that after his adventure Bilbo uses his magic ring whenever he wants to avoid unwelcome visitors.
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Speaks Fluent Animal
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Speaks Fluent Animal: Bard, Balin (though he can only understand raven), the Wood Elves, Beorn... there's a lot of this going around. Averted when Bilbo can't understand bird speech and remains blissfully ignorant of exactly which ugly names the crows were calling them. It's unclear whether the Mirkwood spiders are speaking English or whether Bilbo understands them because he has the Ring.
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Underhanded Hero
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Underhanded Hero: In order to prevent a useless war between allies, Bilbo conceals his possession of the Arkenstone and hands it over to Bard so he can bargain for a ceasefire.
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Spider Swarm
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Spider Swarm: Mirkwood is full of intelligent talking spiders. The group which Bilbo and company run into all live together in the trees and cooperatively hunt prey.
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Food Porn
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Food Porn: Oh yes. One thing Hobbits love is a good meal—"especially dinner, which they take twice a day if they can get it." And since Bilbo is deprived of food more often than not on the adventure, he pays extra close attention when he does get a good meal.
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Home Sweet Home
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Home Sweet Home: Hobbiton, Bilbo's hometown. He may be one of those crazy Took nutters, but he is still a hobbit, and he wants to get home again.
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Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious
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Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious: The Lakeman produce a travel-ration called "cram", which Bilbo and his dwarvish companions are forced to subsist on for an extended period.
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You Were Trying Too Hard
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You Were Trying Too Hard: The "time" riddle. Bilbo is wracking his brain for an answer, Gollum looks like he is about to declare him the loser, and he tries to shout "I need more time to think!" but all that comes out is "Time! Time!" Which luckily for Bilbo was the correct answer.
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Death Equals Redemption
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Death Equals Redemption: Thorin repents of his greed and forgives Bilbo on his deathbed.
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Have a Gay Old Time
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Have a Gay Old Time: "He was in fact held by all the hobbits of the neighbourhood to be 'queer'..." One of the wood-elves calls another a "toss-pot". Back then it meant "heavy drinker", but has come to have a much ruder meaning. The elves in Rivendell sing a song in which one of the lyrics is "the faggots are reeking". This had a completely different meaning in the 1930s (especially in Britain, where the pejorative sense wouldn't really start to gain traction via American importation until the 1960s).
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I Call It "Vera"
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I Call It "Vera": Sting, Bilbo's sword (er, knife) from a troll hoard.
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All Trolls Are Different
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All Trolls Are Different: The three Bilbo encounters are fairly standard as far as being large and brutish, but they are unusual among Tolkien's other works in that they talk. The narration also alludes to trolls with multiple heads, an idea that does not appear anywhere else in the canon.
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Dying Reconciliation
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Dying Reconciliation: Thorin and Bilbo have a heated argument about the impending war on the eve of battle, with Thorin regarding Bilbo as a coward for not wanting to fight. Bilbo, on the other hand, balks at the coward label, pointing out the many times he's pulled the dwarves' fat from the fire. After the Battle of Five Armies is concluded, Thorin is mortally wounded and dying. He calls for Bilbo, and says he would take back his words at the gate. Bilbo acknowledges that there are things he would take back, as well. Thorin is pleased to part as friends with Bilbo, and is at peace when he dies.
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Grail in the Garbage
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Grail in the Garbage: Among the trolls' hoard are retrieved the swords Glamdring, Orcrist and (later named by Bilbo himself) Sting, which are later deduced by Elrond to be Elvish blades forged in Gondolin for the ancient "Goblin Wars". This means these swords date to the First Age during the wars against Morgoth and are at least over 6000 years old, and they had garnered enough of a reputation in that time that even the goblins of the Misty Mountains had their own names for them and could identify them upon sight. Just how these priceless relics wound up in the possession of three stupid backwoods trolls is anybody's guess, though Elrond speculates they were "plundered from other plunderers".
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Stay on the Path
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Stay on the Path: Gandalf's advice to the dwarves about to cross Mirkwood. Of course, the time comes when they disregard his warning, leading to much trouble.
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Stronger with Age
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Stronger with Age: Smaug, who outright mentions the trope.
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Chromosome Casting
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Chromosome Casting: While largely justified by the genre conventions, no female characters appear in the text of The Hobbit. Bilbo's mother Belladonna Took is mentioned a few times, but she is a Posthumous Character.
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 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Caper Rationalization / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cargo Concealment Caper / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Carry a Big Stick / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Catch Your Death of Cold / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Celebrating the Heroes / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cerebus Retcon / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Chaotic Good / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Characterization Marches On / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Charge-into-Combat Cut / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Chekhov's Boomerang / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Chekhov's Gift / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Children's Literature / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Christian Fiction / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Chromosome Casting / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
City of Gold / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
City on the Water / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Color-Coded Characters / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Comic-Book Adaptation / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Congestion Speak / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Conservation of Competence / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cool Uncle / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Covert Distress Code / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Crack Fic / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Creepy Cave / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Creepy Crows / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Crisis Catch-and-Carry / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cross-Referenced Titles / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Crossover Cameo / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Crossover Ship / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cue the Sun / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cultural Translation / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Culture Clash / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Curse Escape Clause / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cute, but Cacophonic / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cute Critters Act Childlike / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cutscene Incompetence / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Cypher Language / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Dark Fantasy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
David Versus Goliath / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Death by Adaptation / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Death Equals Redemption / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Decapitated Army / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Delighting in Riddles / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Descriptiveville / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Designated Bullet / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Designated Love Interest / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Detect Evil / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Deuteragonist / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Didn't Want an Adventure / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Dispense with the Pleasantries / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Divided for Adaptation / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Divine Birds / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Does Not Like Spam / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Doomed by Canon / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Double In-Law Marriage / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Dragon Hoard / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Dragon Works / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Dragons Are Demonic / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Dreaming of Things to Come / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Drinking Contest / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Drinking on Duty / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Druid / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Dying Race / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Dying Reconciliation / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Earth Drift / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Easing into the Adventure / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Eastward Endeavor / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Eccentric Mentor / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Either/Or Title / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Elaborate Underground Base / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Elf Works / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Elfeminate / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Emotionally Tongue-Tied / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Enchanted Forest / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
English Literature / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Entertainment Above Their Age / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Ethnicity Monarch / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Even Better Sequel / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Everyone Join the Party / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Evil Slinks / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Evil Sorcerer / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Evil Takes a Nap / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Expansion Pack World / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Exploring the Evil Lair / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Failure Gambit / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Family Theme Naming / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Fantastic Fragility / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Fantasy World Map / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Fat Comic Relief / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Fiction 500 / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Fighting for a Homeland / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Final Battle / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Final Speech / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Fish out of Water / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Foe-Tossing Charge / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Food Pills / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Food Porn / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Forbidden Fruit / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Fountain of Expies / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Friend to All Living Things / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Frontline General / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Funny Spoon / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Game-Breaking Bug / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Gem-Encrusted / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Gender Flip / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Generational Saga / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Gentleman Snarker / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Get on the Boat / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Giant Mook / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Giant's Knife; Human's Greatsword / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Glowing Gem / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Go-Karting with Bowser / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Gold Fever / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Golf Clubbing / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Grail in the Garbage / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Grim Up North / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Ground Pound / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Hard-to-Light Fire / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Harp of Femininity / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Heart of the Matter / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Here There Be Dragons / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Hero with a Unique Name / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Heroes Prefer Swords / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Heroic Fantasy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Heroic Neutral / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Heroic Willpower / int_fd0b756
 HisFairAssassin
seeAlso
The Hobbit
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Historical In-Joke / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Hospital Surprise / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Hostage-Handler Huddle / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
How Did You Get It? / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Hufflepuff House / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Hypnotic Eyes / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Hypocritical Singing / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
I Am X, Son of Y / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Immune to Drugs / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
In the Blood / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Inconsistent Dub / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Indy Ploy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Inflationary Dialogue / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Innate Night Vision / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Innocuously Important Episode / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Intergenerational Friendship / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Invisibility Cloak / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Invisible Jerkass / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Is It Something You Eat? / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
It May Help You on Your Quest / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
It's Popular, Now It Sucks! / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Journey of Reclamation / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Just a Kid / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
"Just So" Story / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Karmic Thief / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Keep the Reward / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Keystone Army / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Kidnapped by the Call / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Kill the Lights / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Land of Faerie / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Large and in Charge / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Lazy Bum / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Lazy Dragon / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Left-Justified Fantasy Map / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Legally Dead / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Legendary Weapon / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Lineage Comes from the Father / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My! / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Little Hero, Big War / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Lovable Rogue / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Loves Only Gold / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Macabre Moth Motif / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Magic Map / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Magic Wand / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Man of Wealth and Taste / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Mayfly–December Friendship / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Medieval European Fantasy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Mêlée à Trois / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Mentor Mascot / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Mineral MacGuffin / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Minion Maracas / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Missing Steps Plan / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Mistaken for Profound / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Money Fetish / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Monster Lord / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Most Writers Are Human / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Named in the Sequel / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Namedar / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
National Weapon / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Nature Hero / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Near-Villain Victory / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Necromancer / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Neologism / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Nephewism / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Nerves of Steel / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Neutral Evil / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Never Accepted in His Hometown / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Never Gets Drunk / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
No Entrance / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
No Sense of Direction / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
No Woman's Land / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Noble Bird of Prey / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Noble Fugitive / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Nobody Here but Us Birds / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Noiseless Walker / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Non-Action Guy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Non-Action Protagonist / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Non-Protagonist Resolver / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Obsessed with Food / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Old Friend / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Older Than the Demographic / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
One Bullet Left / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Only Smart People May Pass / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Orphaned Etymology / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Orwellian Retcon / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Our Doors Are Different / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Our Dwarves Are All the Same / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Our Fairies Are Different / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Our Giants Are Bigger / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Out of the Frying Pan / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Pajama-Clad Hero / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Pals with Jesus / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Patchwork Fic / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Pendulum War / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Phantasy Spelling / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Photographic Memory / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Playing Both Sides / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Plot Device All Along / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Plot Tumor / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Plunder / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Powerful Pick / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Primal Polymorphs / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Protagonist Title / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Psychic Dreams for Everyone / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Purple Prose / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Racial Remnant / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Random Drop / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Recursive Canon / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Requisite Royal Regalia / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Rest-and-Resupply Stop / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Rewrite / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Rhyme Theme Naming / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Riddle Me This / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Riddle of the Sphinx / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Ridiculously Average Guy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Rightful King Returns / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Ring of Power / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Rule 63 / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Rump Roast / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Running on All Fours / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Savage Wolves / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Scheherezade Gambit / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Schrödinger's Gun / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Science Imitates Art / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Second Episode Morning / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Secret Path / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Secret Underground Passage / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Series Mascot / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Set a Mook to Kill a Mook / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Shining City / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Shout-Out Theme Naming / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Shrouded in Myth / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Sibling Team / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Signature Line / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Simple-Minded Wisdom / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Situational Sword / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Skin Walker / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Slippery MacGuffin / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Smoking Is Cool / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Spared by the Adaptation / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Speaks Fluent Animal / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Spider Swarm / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Square Race, Round Class / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Standing Between the Enemies / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Staring Down Cthulhu / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Stay on the Path / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Stewed Alive / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Stock Monster Symbolism / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Stolen MacGuffin Reveal / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Story to Gameplay Ratio / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Stranger in a Familiar Land / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Stronger with Age / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Sue Donym / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Sundial Waypoint / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Super-Hearing / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Supporting Leader / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Talking Animal / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Talking the Monster to Death / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Technicolor Blade / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Artifact / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Call Knows Where You Live / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Caper / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Chooser of the One / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Chosen Zero / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Cycle of Empires / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Darkness Gazes Back / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Day of Reckoning / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Dissenter Is Always Right / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Drag-Along / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Dragonslayer / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Fair Folk / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Four Loves / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Good Kingdom / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Guards Must Be Crazy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Magnificent / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Marvelous Deer / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Master / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Münchausen / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Nose Knows / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Outside World / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Reliable One / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Runt at the End / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Ship's Motor / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Siege / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Sneaky Guy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The Team Benefactor / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
The World Is Just Awesome / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
There Are Two Kinds of People in the World / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
13 Is Unlucky / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
This Is as Far as I Go / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
This Is Unforgivable! / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Tom the Dark Lord / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Treasure Room / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Trick-and-Follow Ploy / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Truer to the Text / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Try to Fit That on a Business Card / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Ukefication / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Unconscious Objector / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Underground City / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Underhanded Hero / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Unfazed Everyman / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Unholy Holy Sword / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Unlikely Hero / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Unseen Evil / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Ventriloquism / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Viewer Pronunciation Confusion / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Villain Has a Point / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Villain of Another Story / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Villain Song / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Voice Changeling / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Wacky Wayside Tribe / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Wandering Wizard / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Wanderlust Song / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Was Actually Friendly / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Watering Down / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
We Are as Mayflies / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Wealthy Ever After / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Weapon-Based Characterization / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Weapon Tombstone / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Werewolf Theme Naming / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Where It All Began / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Whole-Plot Reference / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Wingdinglish / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Wizard Needs Food Badly / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Writer on Board / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Writing Around Trademarks / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Written for My Kids / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Year Zero / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
You Don't Look Like You / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
You Were Trying Too Hard / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Young Adult Literature / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Your Size May Vary / int_fd0b756
 Hogwarts Hocus (Roleplay)
seeAlso
The Hobbit
 Legend Of The Valkyrie (Video Game)
seeAlso
The Hobbit
 TheHobbit
seeAlso
The Hobbit
 Persona4gotten (Webcomic)
seeAlso
The Hobbit
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Happily Ever After / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Here There Were Dragons / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Too Happy to Live / int_fd0b756
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
You All Meet in an Inn / int_fd0b756