Bilbo baffles Gollum with the question, “What have I got in my pocket?,” which is, of course, not a true riddle at all.
THE ONE FLAW WAS THAT ONCE HE GOT ALL THE DWARVES INTO THE BARRELS, HE COULD NOT GET INTO THE BARREL BY HIMSELF. BILBO OVERCAME THIS OVERSIGHT WHEN HE DECIDED TO JUST JUMP ON THE TOP OF AN EMPTY ONE AND JUST RIDE ON THE TOP OF THE BARREL.
Bilbo thinks to himself that he was wrong to ever leave his hobbit-hole. Dori is carrying Bilbo on his back as they run from the goblins, but when a goblin tries to grab Dori, Bilbo rolls off his back and falls deep into a cavern, hits his head on a rock, and loses consciousness.
A fish splashes in the water at the very moment Bilbo is trying to respond to a riddle to which the correct answer is "fish." When Bilbo asks for more time to solve another riddle, he again is "saved by pure luck" because asking for more time helped him realize that "time" was the correct answer to the riddle in ...
Bilbo, trying to act like a burglar, is caught trying to pick William's pocket. The trolls disagree about what to do with Bilbo and are fighting among themselves when Balin enters their camp. They capture him and put him into a sack, and then do the same to the rest of the dwarves who come looking for Bilbo.
Bilbo, for example, begins his journey with the dwarves reluctantly, not at all sure that he is suited for it. Throughout much of the journey, he regrets his decision to join them and daydreams about the comforts of his own home that seem so attractive in comparison with the dramatic adventures he undergoes.
He was suspicious of the ring when Bilbo lied about his acquisition of it, probably about Bilbo not aging, and surely about Bilbo's difficulty in giving it up, yet it takes something like seventeen more years of research for him to realize it almost definitely was the one ring.
If he won, Gollum promised to show Bilbo out of the mountains. If he lost, Gollum would eat him for dinner. What really caught my attention was the moment immediately following Bilbo's victory.
He reveals the secret of the ring to the dwarves and lures the spiders into a battle, wounding and killing some and frightening others away.
Bilbo is originally chosen as the “lucky number,” so that Thorin and Company will not be an unlucky thirteen. During the course of the expedition, Gandalf remarks several times that Bilbo is extraordinarily lucky. Some of his luck seems to be the deserved reward for Bilbo's courage and determination.
He had already celebrated his 131st birthday, becoming the oldest Hobbit in the history of Middle-earth. As a mortal, he died in the West. While sailing west, Bilbo composed a last poem looking back on Middle-earth in farewell.
The first is that Bilbo is a hobbit, and as such, is particularly difficult to manipulate or corrupt. Hobbits have a natural resistance to the influence of the ring, because they are fully content in their simple lives and have no desires for power or war.
In an iconic scene in The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo drops the One Ring to the ground before leaving The Shire behind. To show the weight of the ring (both physically and metaphorically), a section of the floor of Bag End was magnetized so that it dropped to the floor and did not bounce.
The internal conflict in the story was Bilbo versus himself. He was very uncomfortable about the whole adventure and didn't want to go to the adventure. But, he begins his journey with Gandalf and the dwarves.
Bilbo's conflicting feelings of fear and courage, for instance, are portrayed as a struggle between his Baggins side and his Took side, referring respectively to his father's and his mother's families.
They are suspicious of him, of course, but they relax when Bilbo reveals his secret weapon: the Arkenstone. He gives it freely to Bard to be used as a bargaining chip against Thorin. Bard and the Elvenking are amazed that the hobbit would risk inciting the anger of the dwarves in order to prevent a war.
Bilbo decides to go down the tunnel once again, and the dwarves watch as he makes his way. After he is in the dragon's lair, Bilbo pockets the Arkenstone, making excuses to himself for the theft. He drops his torch and yells for help in the darkness.
Up until that point, I was happy with the film, but once you see Bilbo go mental over protecting the ring and he hacks that white/baby spider to death - my jaw was on the floor.
In JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bilbo initially hides the Arkenstone because he is drawn towards it, just like everyone else. According to the book, he grabs it almost as an unconscious action. He is enchanted by its beauty and allure. He tells himself that when the time is right, he will reveal it to the dwarves.
Bilbo finds the exit and has a chance to kill Gollum. However, his sense of mercy and fairness prevents him from killing the creature. He instead uses the magic ring to evade Gollum and a group of goblins.
Bilbo brandishes his sword when he hears Gollum's hissing voice. Gollum does not wish to contend with the sword, so he proposes a riddle game. If Gollum's riddle stumps Bilbo, he will eat Bilbo, but if Bilbo's stumps Gollum, Gollum will show Bilbo the way out of the mountain.
3. How did Bilbo know his knife was an elvish blade, too? It glowed, showing goblins were near–but not too near.
Though someone could start out with good intentions, the Ring would eventually corrupt them. And that is why Gandalf can't touch it. He is afraid that if he did, it would corrupt him and make him just as bad as Sauron since Sauron put so much of himself and his evil into the One Ring.
Gandalf knew exactly where the Ring was, and who owned it. At any time he could've stepped in to help Bilbo destroy it if he did indeed confirm it was the One Ring. However, Gandalf would also have known how corrupting an influence the Ring can be. So he wouldn't have taken it himself, even if he had known earlier.
Bilbo was in possession of the Ring for many years but only gave it up near the end of his personal journey, when he would not be in need of it. It also probably helped that he didn't know the full extent of the Ring's power or significance, and was guided into letting go of it by Gandalf, whom he trusts fully.