One of the many themes in the hobbit that is present throughout the story is “It’s not always good to stick to the accepted quota.” This means that it is not always worth or good to base your behaviour, actions, and thoughts on what everyone else finds acceptable or to be the proper way of doing something. This theme start to take place very early on in the story and only becomes evident in particular events and towards the end of the story. The first place in the book where this theme is present is within the first few chapters when Bilbo breaks away from the Shire accepted way of life and takes upon an adventure with an old wizard and a company of dwarves; which even if bilbo does not realise, going on this expedition will in return supply him with the want and desire to take part in more adventures, and enough gold to live happily for the rest of his days. …show more content…
Another place in the book where the theme is sewn into the webs of the pages is when Bilbo and Thorin and Co. are making their way through Mirkwood’s (The Forest Of Great Fear’s) dense forest environment and while Bilbo is trying to find an escape out of mirkwood, the dwarves are unwittingly captured by giant spiders. After the fact, Bilbo bravely makes a successful rescue attempt and earns the dwarves respect, and bilbo realizes that he is capable of much more than he originally thought. The theme, as I said before, is also present here because of the things he gained that he wouldn’t have received had he stay in The Shire. There are a few lines in the story that are spoken by characters which hint the presence of the theme in the book, one being on page 305 when bilbo exclaimed “Then the prophecies of the old songs have turned out to be true, after a