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* {{Foreshadowing}}: For his own book and ''The Lord of the Rings'':
** Within ''The Hobbit'', Bilbo slightly succumbs to the madness of the dragon's hoard and pilfers the Arkenstone with a snarky remark that he can count it as his own fourteenth share that Thorin promised him. Thorin, once he gets to the hoard, suffers the dragon madness far worse than Bilbo did with most of it caused by the loss of the Arkenstone.
** For ''The Lord of the Rings'', not just Bilbo's picking up of the Ring and Gandalf's disquiet, but Bilbo is able to recover from the dragon madness itself quite a bit faster than any of the dwarves, and his guilt is what drives him to relinquish the Arkenstone to Bard and the Elvenking to help with parley. Hobbits indeed are made of sturdier stuff and have higher resistance than most other races, and while occasionally Frodo succumbs to impulses, he's able to [[spoiler:mostly]] keep himself together when carrying the Ring.

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