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** Bilbo himself, in stealing the Arkenstone and handing it over to Thranduil 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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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The TropeCodifier, 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 JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Bombur is a ButtMonkey, Balin is the nice guy, Fili and Kili are cheerful.)\\\
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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The TropeCodifier, 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 JerkWithAHeartOfGold, JerkWithAHeartOfGold come TheEeyore, Bombur is a ButtMonkey, Balin is the nice guy, Fili and Kili are cheerful.)\\\
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* RightfulKingReturns: Bard, Thorin, and Dáin Ironfoot.
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* RightfulKingReturns: Bard, Thorin, and Dáin Ironfoot.Ironfoot (well not so much Dain- although he was 'next in line', it wasn't a direct line and unlike Thorin, Dain was the contented lord of another well established colony)
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* TemptingFate: Smaug. "Gideon 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, who kills him, is Gideon's heir.
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* TemptingFate: Smaug. "Gideon "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, who kills him, is Gideon's Girion's heir.
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* A [[Film/TheHobbit 2012/2013 live-action movie]] in three parts directed by PeterJackson as a prequel to his ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy.
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** It was highly rumored the "second" PeterJackson ''Hobbit'' movie would actually be an interquel covering these events. That has since been {{Jossed}} by the {{Word of God}}. Gandalf's experiences are mixed in with the original story, they don't consist an entire movie by themselves.
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** It was highly rumored the "second" PeterJackson Creator/PeterJackson ''Hobbit'' movie would actually be an interquel covering these events. That has since been {{Jossed}} by the {{Word of God}}.WordOfGod. Gandalf's experiences are mixed in with the original story, they don't consist an entire movie by themselves.
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* CanonWelding: When he began writing the sequel, Tolkien moved it and ''The Hobbit'' into his Middle-Earth legendarium setting, which had already been around for over twenty years, although nothing of it had been published so far. The move brought with it some RetCon and ReWrite concerning the events of ''The Hobbit'', which was partly explained as Bilbo being an UnreliableNarrator. (Or rather, a Reliable Narrator whose lying about the recovery of the Ring was extremely portentous and whose knowledge of the Elder Days wasn't quite up to snuff.)
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* CanonWelding: When he began writing the sequel, Tolkien moved it and ''The Hobbit'' into his Middle-Earth legendarium setting, which had already been around for over twenty years, although nothing of it had been published so far. The move brought with it some RetCon {{Retcon}} and ReWrite concerning the events of ''The Hobbit'', which was partly explained as Bilbo being an UnreliableNarrator. (Or rather, a Reliable Narrator whose lying about the recovery of the Ring was extremely portentous and whose knowledge of the Elder Days wasn't quite up to snuff.)
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* RetCon: Cleverly invoked via LiteraryAgentHypothesis. Bilbo intentionally wrote down a less controversial way of how he got the ring (i.e. the original edition of ''The Hobbit'') in his memoirs. Gandalf found this very weird given Bilbo's honest character, which is why in ''The Lord of the Rings'' he suspects the ring of influencing him. Early versions of the altered text (i.e. the 1951 second edition) mention this in an introduction.
* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and its RetCon of the story into the Legendarium.
* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and its RetCon of the story into the Legendarium.
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* RetCon: {{Retcon}}: Cleverly invoked via LiteraryAgentHypothesis. Bilbo intentionally wrote down a less controversial way of how he got the ring (i.e. the original edition of ''The Hobbit'') in his memoirs. Gandalf found this very weird given Bilbo's honest character, which is why in ''The Lord of the Rings'' he suspects the ring of influencing him. Early versions of the altered text (i.e. the 1951 second edition) mention this in an introduction.
* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and itsRetCon {{Retcon}} of the story into the Legendarium.
* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and its
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* A [[Film/TheHobbit 2012/2013 live-action movie]] in two three parts (subtitled ''An Unexpected Journey'' and ''There and Back Again''), directed by PeterJackson as a prequel to his ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy.
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* AppropriatedAppellation: Bilbo's (and later Frodo's) sword[[hottip:*:technically dagger, but big enough for hobbits to be a short sword]], Sting, got its name from the GiantSpiders Bilbo fought with it.
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* AppropriatedAppellation: Bilbo's (and later Frodo's) sword[[hottip:*:technically sword (technically dagger, but big enough for hobbits to be a short sword]], sword), Sting, got its name from the GiantSpiders Bilbo fought with it.
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Bard; Beorn
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Bard; BeornBard, Balin, the Wood Elves, Beorn...there's a lot of this going around. Bilbo, though, can't understand a word and remains blissfully ignorant of exactly which ugly names the crows were calling them.
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* TakenForGranite
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* TakenForGraniteTakenForGranite: the trolls in sunlight.
* TemptingFate: Smaug. "Gideon 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, who kills him, is Gideon's heir.
* TemptingFate: Smaug. "Gideon 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, who kills him, is Gideon's heir.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Thorin is something of a narcissist, probably [[TheWhitePrince due to his royal blood]]. He's still a likable person, though, until [[spoiler: he reclaims his family's vast long lost fortune and GoldFever gets the better of him. If it costs him his life or if he would have been killed anyway is debatable, but he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath realizes the error of his ways not long before he dies of mortal wounds inflicted by goblins]].]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: Thorin is something of a narcissist, probably [[TheWhitePrince [[ShelteredAristocrat due to his royal blood]]. He's still a likable person, though, until [[spoiler: he reclaims his family's vast long lost fortune and GoldFever gets the better of him. If it costs him his life or if he would have been killed anyway is debatable, but he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath realizes the error of his ways not long before he dies of mortal wounds inflicted by goblins]].]]
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** ...a re-evaluation of his wealth, now [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2012/04/23/how-much-is-a-dragon-worth-revisited/ 62 billion USD]], which...well, still leads to...
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* OneSidedBattle
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* BilingualBonus: If you can decode the runes around the original cover (which are simply standard [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet Norse runes]]), 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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* BilingualBonus: If you can decode the runes around the original cover (which are simply standard [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet Norse runes]]), it gives a full title in English: "The [[AC:"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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-->'''Gloin:''' You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do. It's all the same to us.
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-->'''Gloin:''' You can say Expert Treasure-hunter ''Expert Treasure-hunter'' instead of Burglar ''Burglar'' if you like. Some of them do. It's all the same to us.
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JRRTolkien wrote the story in the late 1920s to amuse his three sons. 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''' [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]] for HighFantasy.
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** It was highly rumored the "second" PeterJackson ''Hobbit'' movie would actually be an interquel covering these events. That has since been {{Jossed}} by the {{Word of God}}. Gandalf's experiences are mixed in with the original story, they don't consist an entire movie by themselves.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The goblins and the wargs [[CallARabbitASmeerp (or evil wolves, as we'd call them)]].
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The goblins and the wargs [[CallARabbitASmeerp (or evil wolves, as we'd call them)]].
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** It was highly rumored the "second" PeterJackson ''Hobbit'' movie would actually be an interquel covering these events. That has since been {{Jossed}} by the {{Word of God}}. Gandalf's experiences are mixed in with the original story, they don't consist an entire movie by themselves.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The goblins and the wargs [[CallARabbitASmeerp (or evil wolves, as we'd call them)]].
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The goblins and the wargs [[CallARabbitASmeerp (or evil wolves, as we'd call them)]].
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* TheBerserker: Beorn. He transforms himself into a bear, which Berserkers usually did in [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Norse sagas]], and he goes berserk among a large horde of goblins.
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* TheBerserker: Beorn. He transforms himself into a bear, which Berserkers usually did in [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Norse sagas]], and he goes berserk among a large horde of goblins.
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* ContemptibleCover: [[http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/dmiller/images/000137.jpg This one]], which Tolkien himself [[WordOfGod hated with a passion]]. This edition also didn't include Thorin's map, which is actually referenced in the text as being in the front of the book.
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* ContemptibleCover: [[http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/dmiller/images/000137.jpg This one]], which Tolkien himself [[WordOfGod hated with a passion]]. This edition also didn't include Thorin's map, which is actually referenced in the text as being in the front of the book.
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* LastOfHisKind: Smaug is said to be the last of the ''great dragons'', though there are presumably still lesser dragons.
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* LastOfHisKind: Smaug is said to be the last of the ''great dragons'', though there are presumably still lesser dragons.
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* OneBulletLeft: Bard shoots the dragon with the only arrow he has left. Although more justified in this case, as the one left is also a special one inherited through generations, and just before the shot Bard is told the dragon's weak spot.
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* OneBulletLeft: Bard shoots the dragon with the only arrow he has left. Although more justified in this case, as the one left is also a special one inherited through generations, and just before the shot Bard is told the dragon's weak spot.
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* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The story is "''teeming'' with goblins, hobgoblins and orcs of the ''[[LemonyNarrator worst]]'' description!". [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orc]] is said to be the untranslated Westron word for goblin; see for example the sword ''Orc''rist, and it's translated name, the Goblin-Cleaver.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent : Beorn the "skin-changer" is able to undergo VoluntaryShapeshifting in battle and take the form of a bear. Tolkien took inspiration from the legendary [[TheBerserker berserkir]] of NorseMythology (warriors covered of animal pelts and consecrated to Odinn, who allegedly changed into wolf-men or bear-men in the frenzy of battle).
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent : Beorn the "skin-changer" is able to undergo VoluntaryShapeshifting in battle and take the form of a bear. Tolkien took inspiration from the legendary [[TheBerserker berserkir]] of NorseMythology (warriors covered of animal pelts and consecrated to Odinn, who allegedly changed into wolf-men or bear-men in the frenzy of battle).
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* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The story is "''teeming'' with goblins, hobgoblins and orcs of the ''[[LemonyNarrator worst]]'' description!". [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orc]] is said to be the untranslated Westron word for goblin; see for example the sword ''Orc''rist, and it's translated name, the Goblin-Cleaver.
Goblin-Cleaver.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent : Beorn the "skin-changer" is able to undergo VoluntaryShapeshifting in battle and take the form of a bear. Tolkien took inspiration from the legendary [[TheBerserker berserkir]] of NorseMythology (warriors covered of animal pelts and consecrated to Odinn, who allegedly changed into wolf-men or bear-men in the frenzy of battle).
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent : Beorn the "skin-changer" is able to undergo VoluntaryShapeshifting in battle and take the form of a bear. Tolkien took inspiration from the legendary [[TheBerserker berserkir]] of NorseMythology (warriors covered of animal pelts and consecrated to Odinn, who allegedly changed into wolf-men or bear-men in the frenzy of battle).
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* ShutUpKirk: As Bilbo grows in standing with the dwarves he finds himself growing increasingly exasperated at their frequent pettiness and complaining and basically tells them to grow up several times. And each one is ''awesome.''
* SiblingTeam: In order: Balin and Dwalin; Fili and Kili; Oin and Gloin; and Bofur and Bombur (Bifur is their cousin). And the first nine listed, along with their leader Thorin II Oakenshield, are descended from Durin I, one of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves. (Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are descended from another of the Seven.)
* SiblingTeam: In order: Balin and Dwalin; Fili and Kili; Oin and Gloin; and Bofur and Bombur (Bifur is their cousin). And the first nine listed, along with their leader Thorin II Oakenshield, are descended from Durin I, one of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves. (Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are descended from another of the Seven.)
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* ShutUpKirk: As Bilbo grows in standing with the dwarves he finds himself growing increasingly exasperated at their frequent pettiness and complaining and basically tells them to grow up several times. And each one is ''awesome.''
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* SiblingTeam: In order: Balin and Dwalin; Fili and Kili; Oin and Gloin; and Bofur and Bombur (Bifur is their cousin). And the first nine listed, along with their leader Thorin II Oakenshield, are descended from Durin I, one of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves. (Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are descended from another of the Seven.) )
* SiblingTeam: In order: Balin and Dwalin; Fili and Kili; Oin and Gloin; and Bofur and Bombur (Bifur is their cousin). And the first nine listed, along with their leader Thorin II Oakenshield, are descended from Durin I, one of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves. (Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are descended from another of the Seven.
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* WalletOfHolding: Averted. Out of all the treasure in the Lonely Mountain, all Bilbo takes home with him is his mithril shirt, a chest of gold coins, and a chest of silver coins. That was all he could conveniently transport.
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* WalletOfHolding: Averted. Out of all the treasure in the Lonely Mountain, all Bilbo takes home with him is his mithril shirt, a chest of gold coins, and a chest of silver coins. That was all he could conveniently transport.
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* A ''very'' low budget live-action version made in 1984 in Soviet Russia, as seen [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/21/the-hobbit-russian-soviet-version_n_1163699.html here]]. The same article also links to the Soviet version of the novel, with its uniquely styled illustrations.
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* CueTheSun: Bilbo's rescue from the trolls.
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* CueTheSun: Bilbo's rescue from the trolls. Gandalf, unseen, keeps re-igniting the argument the trolls have about how to cook the prisoners until sun-up, effectively TalkingTheMonsterToDeath.
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* AllThereInTheManual: ''The Quest for Erebor'' in ''Literature/UnfinishedTales'' is Gandalf telling the story from his perspective (in abbreviated form) and explaining what he was doing when he wasn't with Bilbo's party.
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* AllThereInTheManual: ''The Quest for Erebor'' in ''Literature/UnfinishedTales'' ''Literature/{{Unfinished Tales|of Numenor and Middleearth}}'' is Gandalf telling the story from his perspective (in abbreviated form) and explaining what he was doing when he wasn't with Bilbo's party.
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* TheBerserker: Beorn. He transforms himself into a bear, which Berserkers usually did in Literature/NorseSagas, and he goes berserk among a large horde of goblins.
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* TheBerserker: Beorn. He transforms himself into a bear, which Berserkers usually did in Literature/NorseSagas, [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Norse sagas]], and he goes berserk among a large horde of goblins.
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A few alphabetical problems, and moving What Could Have Been to Trivia.
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[[JRRTolkien J. R. R. Tolkien]] wrote the story in the late 1920s to amuse his three sons. 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''' [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]] for HighFantasy.
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* AttackItsWeakpoint: Smaug has exactly one vulnerable spot on his whole body.
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* AttackItsWeakpoint: AttackItsWeakPoint: Smaug has exactly one vulnerable spot on his whole body.
* BigEater: Most of the main cast, in fact, Bilbo and Bombur especially.
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* BigEater: Most of the main cast, in fact, Bilbo and Bombur especially.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: Gandalf
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* TheChooserOfTheOne: Gandalf
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* IncomingHam: Thorin -- "I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror king under the mountain! I return!"
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* IncomingHam: Thorin -- "I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror king under the mountain! I return!"
* InTheBlood: 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.
* InTheBlood: 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.
* InTheBlood: 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.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal
* TheLostWoods: Mirkwood
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* NamedWeapons: Glamdring, the Foe Hammer; Orcrist, the Goblin Cleaver; and Sting. Orcrist and Glamdring are famous enough that the goblins recognize them, calling them ''Biter'' and ''Beater''.
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* NamedWeapons: Glamdring, the Foe Hammer; Orcrist, the Goblin Cleaver; and Sting. Orcrist and Glamdring are famous enough that the goblins recognize them, calling them ''Biter'' "''Biter''" and ''Beater''."''Beater''".
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Bilbo spends the majority 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 ''[[EverythingsWorseWithBears in bear form]]''!
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Bilbo spends the majority 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 ''[[EverythingsWorseWithBears in bear form]]''!
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* PragmaticVillainy: the three trolls don't want to eat Bilbo, simply because he wasn't big enough to go through the trouble of skinning and boning him.
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* PragmaticVillainy: the The three trolls don't want to eat Bilbo, simply because he wasn't big enough to go through the trouble of skinning and boning him.
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* RetCon: Cleverly invoked via LiteraryAgentHypothesis. Bilbo intentionally wrote down a less controversial way of how he got the ring (i.e. the original edition of ''TheHobbit'') in his memoirs. Gandalf found this very weird given Bilbo's honest character, which is why in ''LOTR'' he suspects the ring of influencing him. Early versions of the altered text (i.e. the 1951 second edition) mention this in an introduction.
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* RetCon: Cleverly invoked via LiteraryAgentHypothesis. Bilbo intentionally wrote down a less controversial way of how he got the ring (i.e. the original edition of ''TheHobbit'') ''The Hobbit'') in his memoirs. Gandalf found this very weird given Bilbo's honest character, which is why in ''LOTR'' ''The Lord of the Rings'' he suspects the ring of influencing him. Early versions of the altered text (i.e. the 1951 second edition) mention this in an introduction.introduction.
* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and its RetCon of the story into the Legendarium.
* RiddleMeThis: The riddle contest between Gollum and Bilbo.
* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and its RetCon of the story into the Legendarium.
* RiddleMeThis: The riddle contest between Gollum and Bilbo.
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* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and its RetCon of the story into the legendarium.
* RiddleMeThis: The riddle contest between Gollum and Bilbo.
* RiddleMeThis: The riddle contest between Gollum and Bilbo.
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* SequelHook: ...but only in later editions to fit with the actual [[LordOfTheRings sequel]]. Tolkien didn't expect to write a sequel, and it was reader/publisher demand that made him do so.
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* SequelHook: ...but SequelHook: But only in later editions to fit with the actual [[LordOfTheRings [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings sequel]]. Tolkien didn't expect to write a sequel, and it was reader/publisher demand that made him do so.
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* UnfazedEveryman: Bilbo. A variation in that he's grown up aware that magical people and things ''exist'', but like most hobbits in the Shire, he has not had a lot of first-hand experience with it until that one fateful day.
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* UnfazedEveryman: Bilbo. A variation in that he's grown up aware that magical people and things ''exist'', but like most hobbits Hobbits in the Shire, he has not had a lot of first-hand experience with it until that one fateful day.
* UnreliableNarrator: Retroactively explained Bilbo to be this to account for the differences from the sequel.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Retroactively explained Bilbo to be this to account for the differences from the sequel.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''The History of the Hobbit'' is full of these. For example, the first draft sets the story in the time of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Bilbo mentions China at one point, and Beorn was originally called Medwed (Russian for "bear"). Gandalf's name was originally to be "Bladorthin". And Thorin's name was originally to be "Gandalf".
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* TheChewToy: Bombur
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The precursor to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. '''''The Hobbit''''', or '''''There and Back Again''''', is also the story of Bilbo Baggins, a simple, respectable [[{{Hobbits}} little person]] who is content with his sleepy life in [[GhibliHills Hobbiton]] until an old wizard and thirteen dwarves hijack him for a grand adventure to slay a dragon and win back a lost treasure, forcing him to grow out of his comfortable little world. Along the way he encounters merry elves, ferocious trolls, wicked goblins, and other fantastic characters and creatures before coming face to face with the vile dragon himself.
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The precursor to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. '''''The Hobbit''''', or '''''There and Back Again''''', is also the story of Bilbo Baggins, a simple, respectable [[{{Hobbits}} little person]] who is content with his sleepy life in [[GhibliHills Hobbiton]] until an a crafty old wizard named Gandalf and thirteen dwarves hijack him for a grand adventure to slay a dragon and win back a lost treasure, 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 vile terrible dragon himself.
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** It was highly rumored the "second" ''Hobbit'' movie would actually be an interquel covering these events. That has since been {{Jossed}} by the {{Word of God}}. Gandalf's experiences are mixed in with the original story, they don't consist an entire movie by themselves.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Goblins and the wargs [[CallARabbitASmeerp (or evil wolves, as we'd call them)]].
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[[caption-width-right:230:[-Dustcover of the first edition of The Hobbit, taken from a design by the author.-] ]]
->''[[WhereItAllBegan In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.]]\\
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.''
The precursor to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. '''''The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again''''' is also the story of Bilbo Baggins, a simple, respectable [[{{Hobbits}} little person]] who is content with his sleepy life in [[GhibliHills Hobbiton]] until an old wizard and thirteen dwarves hijack him for a grand adventure to slay a dragon and win back a lost treasure, forcing him to grow out of his comfortable little world. Along the way he encounters merry elves, ferocious trolls, wicked goblins, and other fantastic characters and creatures before coming face to face with the vile dragon himself.
[[JRRTolkien J. R. R. Tolkien]] wrote the story in the late 1920s to amuse his three sons. 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'' [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]] for HighFantasy.
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, for example).
The work has not been out of print since the paper shortages during the [[WorldWarTwo Second World War]].
Adaptations include:
* A 1966 short film directed by Gene Deitch, made as an AshcanCopy (more info [[http://genedeitchcredits.com/40-william-l-snyder/ here]]). According to Deitch it was screened only once in June 1966 to an audience of about six people (to fulfill the part of the contract saying the film had to be shown in public). Despite being the ''only'' screen adaptation of Tolkien's work produced when he was still alive, he never saw it (leading Deitch to say [[CreatorBacklash "Thank God!"]])
* A 1968 [[TheBBC 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 [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes a domestic recording]] was later recovered and used to re-issue the series.
* [[WesternAnimation/TheHobbit A 1977 animated TV special]] by [[RankinBassProductions Rankin-Bass]]; your mileage may vary in regard to how successful it is. At least they used top-flight voice talent, and much of the music was 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 StudioGhibli.
* An [[Film/TheHobbit 21012/2013 live-action movie in 2 parts]], directed by PeterJackson with concept art from GuillermoDelToro.
* Several video-game versions: there's an InteractiveFiction game of ''The Hobbit'', which is considered to be one of the defining entries in the genre, and a video game made in 2003.
* A highly regarded GraphicNovel version approved by the Tolkien estate, illustrated by [[http://www.theonering.com/images/medialibrary/thehobbit010611c.jpg David Wenzel]] in 1991.
* ''ThereAndBackAgain'' by Pat Murphy, which is ''The Hobbit'' [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]
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!!''The Hobbit'' provides examples of (or the sources for):
* AllThereInTheManual: ''The Quest for Erebor'' in ''Literature/UnfinishedTales'' is Gandalf telling the story from his perspective (in abbreviated form) and explaining what he was doing when he wasn't with Bilbo's party.
** It was highly rumored the "second" ''Hobbit'' movie would actually be an interquel covering these events. That has since been {{Jossed}} by the {{Word of God}}. Gandalf's experiences are mixed in with the original story, they don't consist an entire movie by themselves.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Goblins and the wargs [[CallARabbitASmeerp (or evil wolves, as we'd call them)]].
* AntiHero
** Bilbo starts off as a Type I, 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 type III, as he is mostly noble and charismatic, but allows his greed to almost push him into starting a war, though he ultimately repents these deeds.
** Thranduil fits a type II quite well. While greedy and racist toward the Dwarves, he shows kindness to the survivors of Dale and is more reluctant to begin a war for gold than any of his peers.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Bilbo's (and later Frodo's) sword[[hottip:*:technically dagger, but big enough for hobbits to be a short sword]], Sting, got its name from the GiantSpiders Bilbo fought with it.
* TheArcher: Bard
* AttackItsWeakpoint: Smaug has exactly one vulnerable spot on his whole body.
* {{Badass}}
** Dain Ironfoot is regarded in-universe as being especially badass. He survives the Battle of Five Armies and goes on to fight in the Battle of Dale during the War of the Ring, where he dies in combat at [[BadassGrandpa age 250, surrounded by slain foes.]]
** Bilbo's ancester Bullroarer Took probably qualifies as well.
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Bilbo:''' I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.\\\
'''Smaug:''' I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today.Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, strong... ... My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
* BattleInterruptingShout: Gandalf appears between the Dwarven, Elvish, and Human armies as they move to battle each other.
* BeneathTheEarth: 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.
** The elves live in caves in Mirkwood.
** And of course Smaug, and later the dwarves, live under Erebor; Erebor's king was known as King Under the Mountain.
* TheBerserker: Beorn. He transforms himself into a bear, which Berserkers usually did in Literature/NorseSagas, and he goes berserk among a large horde of goblins.
* BigBadWolf: Wargs
* BigDamnHeroes: 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.
* BigGuy: Beorn
* BigEater: Most of the main cast, in fact, Bilbo and Bombur especially.
* BilingualBonus: If you can decode the runes around the original cover (which are simply standard [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet Norse runes]]), 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.)
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord:
-->'''Gloin:''' You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do. It's all the same to us.
* BoisterousBruiser: Beorn, at least [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold once you've gotten through his defenses.]]
* {{Bookends}}
* BoringReturnJourney: 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.
* BreakTheHaughty: Thorin is something of a narcissist, probably [[TheWhitePrince due to his royal blood]]. He's still a likable person, though, until [[spoiler: he reclaims his family's vast long lost fortune and GoldFever gets the better of him. If it costs him his life or if he would have been killed anyway is debatable, but he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath realizes the error of his ways not long before he dies of mortal wounds inflicted by goblins]].]]
* ButtMonkey: 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.
* CallToAdventure: One of the classics.
-->''By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) -- [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gandalfvisit.jpg Gandalf came by]].''
* CanonWelding: When he began writing the sequel, Tolkien moved it and ''The Hobbit'' into his Middle-Earth legendarium setting, which had already been around for over twenty years, although nothing of it had been published so far. The move brought with it some RetCon and ReWrite concerning the events of ''The Hobbit'', which was partly explained as Bilbo being an UnreliableNarrator. (Or rather, a Reliable Narrator whose lying about the recovery of the Ring was extremely portentous and whose knowledge of the Elder Days wasn't quite up to snuff.)
* TheCaper: Stealing the treasure.
* CerebusRetcon: Bilbo's "magic ring" is revealed in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' to be the One Ring of the Dark Lord and its existence holds the fate of all Middle-Earth. An actual retcon as well, since in the earlier editions of the book he won it fairly from Gollum -- who ''didn't mind'' losing it.
* TheChewToy: Bombur
* TheChosenZero: The dwarves react to Bilbo this way. Ironically he doesn't even know he's been hired as an adventurer.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: Gandalf
* CityOfCanals: 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...
* ConflictKiller: 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 EnemyMine.
* ContemptibleCover: [[http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/dmiller/images/000137.jpg This one]], which Tolkien himself [[WordOfGod hated with a passion]]. This edition also didn't include Thorin's map, which is actually referenced in the text as being in the front of the book.
* CoolOldGuy: Gandalf
* CueTheSun: Bilbo's rescue from the trolls.
* CulturedBadass: 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".
* CuteButCacophonic: Bilbo gives out a loud warning shout in the cave.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Concerned that the original book seemed a bit too light in tone compared to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Tolkien wrote a few chapters of a new, darker version that better fitted the geography established in the other books. However, a friend advised him to stop because what he had written was "excellent, but it's not ''The Hobbit'' anymore".
* DeadpanSnarker: The LemonyNarrator.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: With the help of the Ring, Bilbo manages to exchange a few taunting words with Smaug, and leaves to tell the tale. Wasn't exactly the best idea since Smaug tried to roast him and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goes off and burns down Dale.]]
* TheDoctorDolittle: Bard; Beorn
* ElvesVsDwarves
* EvilSorcerer: The Necromancer, mentioned in passing by Gandalf. In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', we find out this is none other than Sauron himself.
* ExploringTheEvilLair
* TheFairFolk: The narrator says that Wood Elves can be a lot closer to this than High Elves.
* FamedInStory / ShroudedInMyth: As Tolkien's narration puts it:
-->''Gandalf! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale. Tales and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went, in the most extraordinary fashion.''
* FauxAffablyEvil: Smaug is extremely articulate when Bilbo was sneaking around, and has some enjoyment in conversing and riddling, but he would have killed him immediately if he could see and at the same time makes no attempt to hide that he's a merciless killer.
* {{Fiction 500}}: Smaug sleeps atop a pile of coins and jewelry ([[http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2011/04/06/how-much-is-smaug-tolkei-dragon-worth/ app. value: $8 billion]]) and his hideout has many more riches -- in fact, the interest to loot it leads to...
* FinalBattle: The Battle of Five Armies.
* FoodPorn: Oh yes. One thing Hobbits love is a good meal -- "especially dinner, which they take twice a day if they can get it."
* GentlemanAdventurer: Bilbo
* {{Giant Spider}}s
* GoldFever: The curse of a dragon's hoard. It nearly leads Thorin to war with Lake Town and the Wood Elves, and leads to the old master of Lake Town stealing most of the treasure and dying in the wilds once it's all over. Bilbo, on the other hand, is (mostly) immune.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Arguably, similar to ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' in this point: we have conflicts between Dwarves and Elves, and the story almost ends in a war between Dwarves on one side and Elves and Men on the other -- until Bilbo's peace-brokering and the Goblins and Wargs showing up as a common enemy forces an EnemyMine scenario.
* GrimUpNorth: The Withered Heath.
* HairTriggerTemper: Gandalf describes Beorn has having this.
* {{Herald}}: Gandalf
* HiddenElfVillage: Rivendell
* {{Hobbits}}: TropeMaker, TropeCodifier, and most likely UrExample as well.
* HomeSweetHome
* HonourBeforeReason: Bilbo refusing to kill Gollum out of pity.
* HorseOfADifferentColor
* IAmXSonOfY: As in the rest of the Tolkienverse, all Dwarves, Elves and Men introduce themselves in this manner. Hobbits, on the other hand, use family names.
* ICallItVera: Sting
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: When Bilbo returns to the Shire a year after disappearing, he has been presumed dead and they're holding an auction on all of his possessions. He then resorts to buying lots of it back with his own money to save time and bother; even so he still has enough left over to stretch it out for eighty years (Bilbo gives away a pouch containing the last of the gold he got from the Lonely Mountain shortly before the Scouring of the Shire in ''The Return of the King'').
* ImAHumanitarian: Gollum, who has lived for three hundred years under the mountain eating raw fish and the occasional goblin, whenever he can kill one.
* InflationaryDialogue: In Gandalf's account to Beorn, the number of dwarves continually inflates, starting at "one or two" and ending accurately.
* IncomingHam: Thorin -- "I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror king under the mountain! I return!"
* InTheBlood: 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.
* InterspeciesRomance: Alluded to. It is 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.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: And Bilbo did, resulting in the Memoirs ''There And Back Again: A Hobbit's Holiday'', which [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis cheekily is implied by Tolkien]] to be the novel's "base."
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* {{Jerkass}}: Thorin
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Several characters, including Bard and Beorn.
* LastOfHisKind: Smaug is said to be the last of the ''great dragons'', though there are presumably still lesser dragons.
* LemonyNarrator: Tolkien, as narrator, interjects several asides to the audience in each chapter; he later grew tired of this trope (it hardly appears at all in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''), but chose not to change it with ''The Hobbit'' since it fits the LiteraryAgentHypothesis (q.v.).
* ALightInTheDistance: The elf-lights in Mirkwood.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The story is "compiled" from Bilbo's memoirs.
* LukeNounverber: 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 a oak branch, which he ''ripped off the tree in the middle of the fight''.
* TheLostWoods: Mirkwood
* MacGuffinGuardian: Arguably Smaug, though in this case he isn't serving anyone but himself.
* MinionMaracas: 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.)
* MythicalMotifs
* NamedWeapons: Glamdring, the Foe Hammer; Orcrist, the Goblin Cleaver; and Sting. Orcrist and Glamdring are famous enough that the goblins recognize them, calling them ''Biter'' and ''Beater''.
* NatureHero
* NearVillainVictory: Tolkien basically coined the word "eucatastrophe" (literally "the ''good'' catastrophe") to describe this trope; it was one of his favorites, in fact, and it happens plenty of times throughout the novel.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: 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 FantasticRacism, refuse to tell them their motives. They're imprisoned, and upon escaping, the Elves become even ''more'' suspicious and angry with them.
** They then end up waking Smaug up, who proceeds to go on a rampage on Laketown, assuming Bilbo came from there, and the survivors aren't happy with them for it.
* NintendoHard: The InteractiveFiction game is infamously difficult to complete.
* NobodyHereButUsBirds: "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.
* TheObiWan: Gandalf
* OneBulletLeft: Bard shoots the dragon with the only arrow he has left. Although more justified in this case, as the one left is also a special one inherited through generations, and just before the shot Bard is told the dragon's weak spot.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Bilbo spends the majority 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 ''[[EverythingsWorseWithBears in bear form]]''!
* OneSidedBattle
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: 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: which is just a stupid question by Bilbo which Gollum mistook for a riddle. Of course, Gollum intended to cheat all along, since he had the Ring (or thought he did).\\\
According to ''The Lord of the Rings'', this led to substantial in-universe debate over whether Bilbo technically cheated. However, the scholars do agree that once Gollum ''accepted the question'', he was bound by the rules of the game, especially since Bilbo actually gave him multiple chances to get it right -- and ''he'' cheated on the last chance (guessing two separate things: "String, or nothing!").
* OurDragonsAreDifferent
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The TropeCodifier, 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 JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Bombur is a ButtMonkey, Balin is the nice guy, Fili and Kili are cheerful.)\\\
Partially averted, however, in that 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 does). Thorin's gang might be excused, however, from the fact that they have been technically homeless for decades; Dain's dwarves from the Iron Mountain fit the trope a lot better.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The story is "''teeming'' with goblins, hobgoblins and orcs of the ''[[LemonyNarrator worst]]'' description!". [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orc]] is said to be the untranslated Westron word for goblin; see for example the sword ''Orc''rist, and it's translated name, the Goblin-Cleaver.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent : Beorn the "skin-changer" is able to undergo VoluntaryShapeshifting in battle and take the form of a bear. Tolkien took inspiration from the legendary [[TheBerserker berserkir]] of NorseMythology (warriors covered of animal pelts and consecrated to Odinn, who allegedly changed into wolf-men or bear-men in the frenzy of battle).
* PragmaticVillainy: the three trolls don't want to eat Bilbo, simply because he wasn't big enough to go through the trouble of skinning and boning him.
* TheQuest
* RavensAndCrows: The ravens that live near the Lonely Mountain are friendly to the Dwarves.
* RecursiveCanon
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Thorin]]
* RetCon: Cleverly invoked via LiteraryAgentHypothesis. Bilbo intentionally wrote down a less controversial way of how he got the ring (i.e. the original edition of ''TheHobbit'') in his memoirs. Gandalf found this very weird given Bilbo's honest character, which is why in ''LOTR'' he suspects the ring of influencing him. Early versions of the altered text (i.e. the 1951 second edition) mention this in an introduction.
* RightfulKingReturns: Bard, Thorin, and Dáin Ironfoot.
* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and its RetCon of the story into the legendarium.
* RiddleMeThis: The riddle contest between Gollum and Bilbo.
* RobeAndWizardHat: "I am Gandalf, and 'Gandalf' means me!"
* RuleOfThree
* SacredHospitality
* SequelHook: ...but only in later editions to fit with the actual [[LordOfTheRings sequel]]. Tolkien didn't expect to write a sequel, and it was reader/publisher demand that made him do so.
* ShutUpKirk: As Bilbo grows in standing with the dwarves he finds himself growing increasingly exasperated at their frequent pettiness and complaining and basically tells them to grow up several times. And each one is ''awesome.''
* SiblingTeam: In order: Balin and Dwalin; Fili and Kili; Oin and Gloin; and Bofur and Bombur (Bifur is their cousin). And the first nine listed, along with their leader Thorin II Oakenshield, are descended from Durin I, one of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves. (Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are descended from another of the Seven.)
* StandingBetweenTheEnemies: Gandalf stood between the Three Armies (Human, Elf, and Dwarf) to point out that their common enemies the Goblins were approaching on Warg-back.
* StayOnThePath
* StolenMacGuffinReveal: Bilbo gets to do this a few times.
* StoryBreakerPower: 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.
* StrongerWithAge: Smaug, who outright mentions the trope.
* SueDonym: "a bur-- a hobbit." "a burrahobbit?"
* SundialWaypoint
* SupportingLeader: Bard the bowman and Dain Ironfoot.
* TakenForGranite
* TookALevelInBadass: 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 CharacterLevel.
* UnfazedEveryman: Bilbo. A variation in that he's grown up aware that magical people and things ''exist'', but like most hobbits in the Shire, he has not had a lot of first-hand experience with it until that one fateful day.
* UnholyHolySword: [[ItWasHisSled The Ring]], although TheReveal doesn't actually come around until [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the next book]].
* UnstoppableRage: Beorn
* UnreliableNarrator: Retroactively explained Bilbo to be this to account for the differences from the sequel.
* VillainSong: The goblins' song.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Beorn
* WalletOfHolding: Averted. Out of all the treasure in the Lonely Mountain, all Bilbo takes home with him is his mithril shirt, a chest of gold coins, and a chest of silver coins. That was all he could conveniently transport.
* WasActuallyFriendly: Wood Elves. They distrust the dwarves mutually ([[PoorCommunicationKills so the dwarves refuse to say why they're there, making the elves suspicious]] since they assumed the starving dwarves approaching their banquet to beg for food were attacking). They turn out to be a lot nicer later on, [[spoiler:with Bilbo giving them some treasure in payment for the food he stole while orchestrating the dwarves' breakout on his way back home]]. Arguably the men of the lake as well [[spoiler:since they join the elves in laying siege to the old keep]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''The History of the Hobbit'' is full of these. For example, the first draft sets the story in the time of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Bilbo mentions China at one point, and Beorn was originally called Medwed (Russian for "bear"). Gandalf's name was originally to be "Bladorthin". And Thorin's name was originally to be "Gandalf".
* YeGoodeOldeDays
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:Smaug dies three chapters before the actual climax of the story.]]
* YouWereTryingTooHard: The "time" riddle.
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[[caption-width-right:230:[-Dustcover of the first edition of The Hobbit, taken from a design by the author.-] ]]
->''[[WhereItAllBegan In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.]]\\
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.''
The precursor to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. '''''The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again''''' is also the story of Bilbo Baggins, a simple, respectable [[{{Hobbits}} little person]] who is content with his sleepy life in [[GhibliHills Hobbiton]] until an old wizard and thirteen dwarves hijack him for a grand adventure to slay a dragon and win back a lost treasure, forcing him to grow out of his comfortable little world. Along the way he encounters merry elves, ferocious trolls, wicked goblins, and other fantastic characters and creatures before coming face to face with the vile dragon himself.
[[JRRTolkien J. R. R. Tolkien]] wrote the story in the late 1920s to amuse his three sons. 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'' [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]] for HighFantasy.
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, for example).
The work has not been out of print since the paper shortages during the [[WorldWarTwo Second World War]].
Adaptations include:
* A 1966 short film directed by Gene Deitch, made as an AshcanCopy (more info [[http://genedeitchcredits.com/40-william-l-snyder/ here]]). According to Deitch it was screened only once in June 1966 to an audience of about six people (to fulfill the part of the contract saying the film had to be shown in public). Despite being the ''only'' screen adaptation of Tolkien's work produced when he was still alive, he never saw it (leading Deitch to say [[CreatorBacklash "Thank God!"]])
* A 1968 [[TheBBC 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 [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes a domestic recording]] was later recovered and used to re-issue the series.
* [[WesternAnimation/TheHobbit A 1977 animated TV special]] by [[RankinBassProductions Rankin-Bass]]; your mileage may vary in regard to how successful it is. At least they used top-flight voice talent, and much of the music was 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 StudioGhibli.
* An [[Film/TheHobbit 21012/2013 live-action movie in 2 parts]], directed by PeterJackson with concept art from GuillermoDelToro.
* Several video-game versions: there's an InteractiveFiction game of ''The Hobbit'', which is considered to be one of the defining entries in the genre, and a video game made in 2003.
* A highly regarded GraphicNovel version approved by the Tolkien estate, illustrated by [[http://www.theonering.com/images/medialibrary/thehobbit010611c.jpg David Wenzel]] in 1991.
* ''ThereAndBackAgain'' by Pat Murphy, which is ''The Hobbit'' [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]
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!!''The Hobbit'' provides examples of (or the sources for):
* AllThereInTheManual: ''The Quest for Erebor'' in ''Literature/UnfinishedTales'' is Gandalf telling the story from his perspective (in abbreviated form) and explaining what he was doing when he wasn't with Bilbo's party.
** It was highly rumored the "second" ''Hobbit'' movie would actually be an interquel covering these events. That has since been {{Jossed}} by the {{Word of God}}. Gandalf's experiences are mixed in with the original story, they don't consist an entire movie by themselves.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Goblins and the wargs [[CallARabbitASmeerp (or evil wolves, as we'd call them)]].
* AntiHero
** Bilbo starts off as a Type I, 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 type III, as he is mostly noble and charismatic, but allows his greed to almost push him into starting a war, though he ultimately repents these deeds.
** Thranduil fits a type II quite well. While greedy and racist toward the Dwarves, he shows kindness to the survivors of Dale and is more reluctant to begin a war for gold than any of his peers.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Bilbo's (and later Frodo's) sword[[hottip:*:technically dagger, but big enough for hobbits to be a short sword]], Sting, got its name from the GiantSpiders Bilbo fought with it.
* TheArcher: Bard
* AttackItsWeakpoint: Smaug has exactly one vulnerable spot on his whole body.
* {{Badass}}
** Dain Ironfoot is regarded in-universe as being especially badass. He survives the Battle of Five Armies and goes on to fight in the Battle of Dale during the War of the Ring, where he dies in combat at [[BadassGrandpa age 250, surrounded by slain foes.]]
** Bilbo's ancester Bullroarer Took probably qualifies as well.
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Bilbo:''' I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.\\\
'''Smaug:''' I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today.Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, strong... ... My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
* BattleInterruptingShout: Gandalf appears between the Dwarven, Elvish, and Human armies as they move to battle each other.
* BeneathTheEarth: 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.
** The elves live in caves in Mirkwood.
** And of course Smaug, and later the dwarves, live under Erebor; Erebor's king was known as King Under the Mountain.
* TheBerserker: Beorn. He transforms himself into a bear, which Berserkers usually did in Literature/NorseSagas, and he goes berserk among a large horde of goblins.
* BigBadWolf: Wargs
* BigDamnHeroes: 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.
* BigGuy: Beorn
* BigEater: Most of the main cast, in fact, Bilbo and Bombur especially.
* BilingualBonus: If you can decode the runes around the original cover (which are simply standard [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet Norse runes]]), 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.)
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord:
-->'''Gloin:''' You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do. It's all the same to us.
* BoisterousBruiser: Beorn, at least [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold once you've gotten through his defenses.]]
* {{Bookends}}
* BoringReturnJourney: 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.
* BreakTheHaughty: Thorin is something of a narcissist, probably [[TheWhitePrince due to his royal blood]]. He's still a likable person, though, until [[spoiler: he reclaims his family's vast long lost fortune and GoldFever gets the better of him. If it costs him his life or if he would have been killed anyway is debatable, but he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath realizes the error of his ways not long before he dies of mortal wounds inflicted by goblins]].]]
* ButtMonkey: 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.
* CallToAdventure: One of the classics.
-->''By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) -- [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gandalfvisit.jpg Gandalf came by]].''
* CanonWelding: When he began writing the sequel, Tolkien moved it and ''The Hobbit'' into his Middle-Earth legendarium setting, which had already been around for over twenty years, although nothing of it had been published so far. The move brought with it some RetCon and ReWrite concerning the events of ''The Hobbit'', which was partly explained as Bilbo being an UnreliableNarrator. (Or rather, a Reliable Narrator whose lying about the recovery of the Ring was extremely portentous and whose knowledge of the Elder Days wasn't quite up to snuff.)
* TheCaper: Stealing the treasure.
* CerebusRetcon: Bilbo's "magic ring" is revealed in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' to be the One Ring of the Dark Lord and its existence holds the fate of all Middle-Earth. An actual retcon as well, since in the earlier editions of the book he won it fairly from Gollum -- who ''didn't mind'' losing it.
* TheChewToy: Bombur
* TheChosenZero: The dwarves react to Bilbo this way. Ironically he doesn't even know he's been hired as an adventurer.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: Gandalf
* CityOfCanals: 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...
* ConflictKiller: 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 EnemyMine.
* ContemptibleCover: [[http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/dmiller/images/000137.jpg This one]], which Tolkien himself [[WordOfGod hated with a passion]]. This edition also didn't include Thorin's map, which is actually referenced in the text as being in the front of the book.
* CoolOldGuy: Gandalf
* CueTheSun: Bilbo's rescue from the trolls.
* CulturedBadass: 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".
* CuteButCacophonic: Bilbo gives out a loud warning shout in the cave.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Concerned that the original book seemed a bit too light in tone compared to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Tolkien wrote a few chapters of a new, darker version that better fitted the geography established in the other books. However, a friend advised him to stop because what he had written was "excellent, but it's not ''The Hobbit'' anymore".
* DeadpanSnarker: The LemonyNarrator.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: With the help of the Ring, Bilbo manages to exchange a few taunting words with Smaug, and leaves to tell the tale. Wasn't exactly the best idea since Smaug tried to roast him and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goes off and burns down Dale.]]
* TheDoctorDolittle: Bard; Beorn
* ElvesVsDwarves
* EvilSorcerer: The Necromancer, mentioned in passing by Gandalf. In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', we find out this is none other than Sauron himself.
* ExploringTheEvilLair
* TheFairFolk: The narrator says that Wood Elves can be a lot closer to this than High Elves.
* FamedInStory / ShroudedInMyth: As Tolkien's narration puts it:
-->''Gandalf! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale. Tales and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went, in the most extraordinary fashion.''
* FauxAffablyEvil: Smaug is extremely articulate when Bilbo was sneaking around, and has some enjoyment in conversing and riddling, but he would have killed him immediately if he could see and at the same time makes no attempt to hide that he's a merciless killer.
* {{Fiction 500}}: Smaug sleeps atop a pile of coins and jewelry ([[http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2011/04/06/how-much-is-smaug-tolkei-dragon-worth/ app. value: $8 billion]]) and his hideout has many more riches -- in fact, the interest to loot it leads to...
* FinalBattle: The Battle of Five Armies.
* FoodPorn: Oh yes. One thing Hobbits love is a good meal -- "especially dinner, which they take twice a day if they can get it."
* GentlemanAdventurer: Bilbo
* {{Giant Spider}}s
* GoldFever: The curse of a dragon's hoard. It nearly leads Thorin to war with Lake Town and the Wood Elves, and leads to the old master of Lake Town stealing most of the treasure and dying in the wilds once it's all over. Bilbo, on the other hand, is (mostly) immune.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Arguably, similar to ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' in this point: we have conflicts between Dwarves and Elves, and the story almost ends in a war between Dwarves on one side and Elves and Men on the other -- until Bilbo's peace-brokering and the Goblins and Wargs showing up as a common enemy forces an EnemyMine scenario.
* GrimUpNorth: The Withered Heath.
* HairTriggerTemper: Gandalf describes Beorn has having this.
* {{Herald}}: Gandalf
* HiddenElfVillage: Rivendell
* {{Hobbits}}: TropeMaker, TropeCodifier, and most likely UrExample as well.
* HomeSweetHome
* HonourBeforeReason: Bilbo refusing to kill Gollum out of pity.
* HorseOfADifferentColor
* IAmXSonOfY: As in the rest of the Tolkienverse, all Dwarves, Elves and Men introduce themselves in this manner. Hobbits, on the other hand, use family names.
* ICallItVera: Sting
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: When Bilbo returns to the Shire a year after disappearing, he has been presumed dead and they're holding an auction on all of his possessions. He then resorts to buying lots of it back with his own money to save time and bother; even so he still has enough left over to stretch it out for eighty years (Bilbo gives away a pouch containing the last of the gold he got from the Lonely Mountain shortly before the Scouring of the Shire in ''The Return of the King'').
* ImAHumanitarian: Gollum, who has lived for three hundred years under the mountain eating raw fish and the occasional goblin, whenever he can kill one.
* InflationaryDialogue: In Gandalf's account to Beorn, the number of dwarves continually inflates, starting at "one or two" and ending accurately.
* IncomingHam: Thorin -- "I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror king under the mountain! I return!"
* InTheBlood: 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.
* InterspeciesRomance: Alluded to. It is 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.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: And Bilbo did, resulting in the Memoirs ''There And Back Again: A Hobbit's Holiday'', which [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis cheekily is implied by Tolkien]] to be the novel's "base."
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* {{Jerkass}}: Thorin
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Several characters, including Bard and Beorn.
* LastOfHisKind: Smaug is said to be the last of the ''great dragons'', though there are presumably still lesser dragons.
* LemonyNarrator: Tolkien, as narrator, interjects several asides to the audience in each chapter; he later grew tired of this trope (it hardly appears at all in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''), but chose not to change it with ''The Hobbit'' since it fits the LiteraryAgentHypothesis (q.v.).
* ALightInTheDistance: The elf-lights in Mirkwood.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The story is "compiled" from Bilbo's memoirs.
* LukeNounverber: 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 a oak branch, which he ''ripped off the tree in the middle of the fight''.
* TheLostWoods: Mirkwood
* MacGuffinGuardian: Arguably Smaug, though in this case he isn't serving anyone but himself.
* MinionMaracas: 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.)
* MythicalMotifs
* NamedWeapons: Glamdring, the Foe Hammer; Orcrist, the Goblin Cleaver; and Sting. Orcrist and Glamdring are famous enough that the goblins recognize them, calling them ''Biter'' and ''Beater''.
* NatureHero
* NearVillainVictory: Tolkien basically coined the word "eucatastrophe" (literally "the ''good'' catastrophe") to describe this trope; it was one of his favorites, in fact, and it happens plenty of times throughout the novel.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: 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 FantasticRacism, refuse to tell them their motives. They're imprisoned, and upon escaping, the Elves become even ''more'' suspicious and angry with them.
** They then end up waking Smaug up, who proceeds to go on a rampage on Laketown, assuming Bilbo came from there, and the survivors aren't happy with them for it.
* NintendoHard: The InteractiveFiction game is infamously difficult to complete.
* NobodyHereButUsBirds: "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.
* TheObiWan: Gandalf
* OneBulletLeft: Bard shoots the dragon with the only arrow he has left. Although more justified in this case, as the one left is also a special one inherited through generations, and just before the shot Bard is told the dragon's weak spot.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Bilbo spends the majority 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 ''[[EverythingsWorseWithBears in bear form]]''!
* OneSidedBattle
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: 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: which is just a stupid question by Bilbo which Gollum mistook for a riddle. Of course, Gollum intended to cheat all along, since he had the Ring (or thought he did).\\\
According to ''The Lord of the Rings'', this led to substantial in-universe debate over whether Bilbo technically cheated. However, the scholars do agree that once Gollum ''accepted the question'', he was bound by the rules of the game, especially since Bilbo actually gave him multiple chances to get it right -- and ''he'' cheated on the last chance (guessing two separate things: "String, or nothing!").
* OurDragonsAreDifferent
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The TropeCodifier, 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 JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Bombur is a ButtMonkey, Balin is the nice guy, Fili and Kili are cheerful.)\\\
Partially averted, however, in that 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 does). Thorin's gang might be excused, however, from the fact that they have been technically homeless for decades; Dain's dwarves from the Iron Mountain fit the trope a lot better.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The story is "''teeming'' with goblins, hobgoblins and orcs of the ''[[LemonyNarrator worst]]'' description!". [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orc]] is said to be the untranslated Westron word for goblin; see for example the sword ''Orc''rist, and it's translated name, the Goblin-Cleaver.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent : Beorn the "skin-changer" is able to undergo VoluntaryShapeshifting in battle and take the form of a bear. Tolkien took inspiration from the legendary [[TheBerserker berserkir]] of NorseMythology (warriors covered of animal pelts and consecrated to Odinn, who allegedly changed into wolf-men or bear-men in the frenzy of battle).
* PragmaticVillainy: the three trolls don't want to eat Bilbo, simply because he wasn't big enough to go through the trouble of skinning and boning him.
* TheQuest
* RavensAndCrows: The ravens that live near the Lonely Mountain are friendly to the Dwarves.
* RecursiveCanon
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Thorin]]
* RetCon: Cleverly invoked via LiteraryAgentHypothesis. Bilbo intentionally wrote down a less controversial way of how he got the ring (i.e. the original edition of ''TheHobbit'') in his memoirs. Gandalf found this very weird given Bilbo's honest character, which is why in ''LOTR'' he suspects the ring of influencing him. Early versions of the altered text (i.e. the 1951 second edition) mention this in an introduction.
* RightfulKingReturns: Bard, Thorin, and Dáin Ironfoot.
* ReWrite: Chapter 5 was rewritten to better fit with the sequel and its RetCon of the story into the legendarium.
* RiddleMeThis: The riddle contest between Gollum and Bilbo.
* RobeAndWizardHat: "I am Gandalf, and 'Gandalf' means me!"
* RuleOfThree
* SacredHospitality
* SequelHook: ...but only in later editions to fit with the actual [[LordOfTheRings sequel]]. Tolkien didn't expect to write a sequel, and it was reader/publisher demand that made him do so.
* ShutUpKirk: As Bilbo grows in standing with the dwarves he finds himself growing increasingly exasperated at their frequent pettiness and complaining and basically tells them to grow up several times. And each one is ''awesome.''
* SiblingTeam: In order: Balin and Dwalin; Fili and Kili; Oin and Gloin; and Bofur and Bombur (Bifur is their cousin). And the first nine listed, along with their leader Thorin II Oakenshield, are descended from Durin I, one of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves. (Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are descended from another of the Seven.)
* StandingBetweenTheEnemies: Gandalf stood between the Three Armies (Human, Elf, and Dwarf) to point out that their common enemies the Goblins were approaching on Warg-back.
* StayOnThePath
* StolenMacGuffinReveal: Bilbo gets to do this a few times.
* StoryBreakerPower: 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.
* StrongerWithAge: Smaug, who outright mentions the trope.
* SueDonym: "a bur-- a hobbit." "a burrahobbit?"
* SundialWaypoint
* SupportingLeader: Bard the bowman and Dain Ironfoot.
* TakenForGranite
* TookALevelInBadass: 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 CharacterLevel.
* UnfazedEveryman: Bilbo. A variation in that he's grown up aware that magical people and things ''exist'', but like most hobbits in the Shire, he has not had a lot of first-hand experience with it until that one fateful day.
* UnholyHolySword: [[ItWasHisSled The Ring]], although TheReveal doesn't actually come around until [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the next book]].
* UnstoppableRage: Beorn
* UnreliableNarrator: Retroactively explained Bilbo to be this to account for the differences from the sequel.
* VillainSong: The goblins' song.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Beorn
* WalletOfHolding: Averted. Out of all the treasure in the Lonely Mountain, all Bilbo takes home with him is his mithril shirt, a chest of gold coins, and a chest of silver coins. That was all he could conveniently transport.
* WasActuallyFriendly: Wood Elves. They distrust the dwarves mutually ([[PoorCommunicationKills so the dwarves refuse to say why they're there, making the elves suspicious]] since they assumed the starving dwarves approaching their banquet to beg for food were attacking). They turn out to be a lot nicer later on, [[spoiler:with Bilbo giving them some treasure in payment for the food he stole while orchestrating the dwarves' breakout on his way back home]]. Arguably the men of the lake as well [[spoiler:since they join the elves in laying siege to the old keep]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''The History of the Hobbit'' is full of these. For example, the first draft sets the story in the time of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Bilbo mentions China at one point, and Beorn was originally called Medwed (Russian for "bear"). Gandalf's name was originally to be "Bladorthin". And Thorin's name was originally to be "Gandalf".
* YeGoodeOldeDays
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:Smaug dies three chapters before the actual climax of the story.]]
* YouWereTryingTooHard: The "time" riddle.
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