You don’t need to have super strength, powers like flying, or laser eyes to be a hero. To be a hero you need self-sacrifice, confidence, knowledge, and bravery. Bilbo Baggins was an ordinary hobbit, with no special powers. Bilbo was content in his hobbit hole, till Gandalf came to Bilbo’s hobbit hole to convince him to go on a quest with him and the dwarves. “Let’s have no more argument. I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes.” says Gandalf to the dwarfs in J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit. At the beginning of the quest Bilbo is very timid, but as he propounds into the quest Bilbo faces dangers to test his bravery, self-sacrifice, and knowledge, such as; stealing the purse of one of the …show more content…
And when Bilbo escaped Gollum’s cave with the ring of power “It’s got to ask uss a question, my preciouss, yes, yess, yess. Jusst one more question to guess, yes, yess.”says Gollum in the riddle game in J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Bilbo sacrificed himself to slay the spiders to save the dwarves from getting eaten. “Somehow the killing of this giant spider, all alone, by himself in the dark made a great difference to Mr. Baggins” says the narrator in J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit. And when Bilbo talked face-to-face with the great Smaug it demonstrated Bilbo to be a great burglar and a true hero. Tolkien had Bilbo’s transformation based off of WWI. The soldiers in WWI were the example of self-sacrifice, when they were out there fighting for their country they weren’t thinking of themselves, but of their friends and