: Bilbo lucha entre su lado respetable (Baggins) y su herencia aventurera (Took), una batalla interna que define su arco de personaje. Lund University Publications Temas centrales: Más allá del tesoro

Aunque el objetivo superficial es recuperar el oro de Erebor, los temas subyacentes son mucho más complejos:

Bilbo sat in the silence. He looked at his empty bookshelf, his unread emails, his CV for a job he didn’t want. He thought about the Shire – his Shire – a life of predictable algorithms and scheduled contentment.