Bilbo can be very set in his ways and a creature of habit. He dislikes disruptions, most particularly unexpected ones such as thirteen dwarves and a wizard turning up on his doorstep. He rises to that particular occasion simply because he is also a homebody, proud of simple virtues such as hospitality and obliging his guests. To be honest, he can be stuffy and overly concerned with the minor, proper details of daily life. This is a hobbit seriously prepared to halt an entire company's journey because he forgot a pocket handkercheif, and laments the loss of his buttons for quite some time.
He wasn't always like this. As a child, he grew up on stories of adventures and lands beyond the Shire, and elves. He wanted to explore and experience the world, and it's that part of Bilbo that Gandalf wants to rekindle when he rigs Bilbo's role in this adventure.
Whether then or now, he is brave when he has to be. While normally timid, he has faced down terrible goblins and trolls if it means protecting someone important to him. He has gained a sword, and he will eventually name it once he has done great deeds with it; these are within his capability even if he's not fully sure of that fact himself. He's good in a tight spot and rises to the occasion.
He is also loyal. He is spurred to his greatest acts by his concern for his comrades and friends. Even his decision to stick with the dwarves on their quest is motivated by loyalty - and kindness, recognizing that he wants to help their situation. This is the mercy and compassion that ultimately makes him choose to spare Gollum. It also makes him prefer to think his way out of a problem and find another solution, rather than defaulting to battle. He's no warrior.
Alongside this loyalty and mercy, Bilbo has a strong conscience. This will eventually compel him to repay the elvenking for the food stolen during the time he was trying to free the dwarves. It will also push him to look for a win-win scenario once the situation at the mountain becomes a standoff - even at the price of alienating his comrades if it will bring a larger settlement and peace.
He also has a strong sense of personal pride. As soon as the others doubt, even while he's unsure of himself, he sets out to prove himself. This ocacsionally gets him intro trouble as he's been known to face danger simply to show that he is, in fact a 'real burglar' and asset to the company.
However, Bilbo feels out of his depth a lot. He is out of his depth a lot, whether on this grandiose adventure throughout the lands of Middle Earth when he's a homebody hobbit, or whether in a place like Luceti where nothing is like anything he's ever heard of. He is prone to self-doubt, and doubt of his own skills and abilities, until he grows in confidence.
Strengths:
Bilbo makes a better 'burglar' type than he'd admit. Hobbits are capable of moving very quietly, so quietly as to be unnoticed. They are also resilient, especially mentally. Bilbo is, ultimately, able to resist the One Ring's corruption not perfectly, but remarkably well.
He's better at quick thinking than fighting. He's the one who thinks to play for time when facing the trolls (and let the morning light do the work), and when pressed, he's the one of the group who tends to have more creative solutions. He can be somewhat ingenious. He enjoys riddles and knows them very well.
Growing up, Bilbo relates that he enjoyed conkers, which has given him at least some accuracy with thrown projectiles: stones. He's also slowly learning to use a sword... but at this point, he has no especial skill with it. It's something he may be willing to work at in Luceti in the hopes it will stand him in good stead if he returns to his world and quest.
While it's not his own power, it should be noted he does have the One Ring, which he knows he can use to seem to vanish. In reality, it draws him into the Twilight World, but this is unknown to him, and he is unaware of its vast other potential. He is equally unaware of the danger it represents, and thus feels able to use it freely.
Although this is also largely irrelevant in Luceti, Bilbo is from a wealthy background, wealthy enough that relatives are hopeful of inheritance (and his nice hobbit hole) and that he can live as a gentleman of leisure. This can also be a drawback in that it makes him unfamiliar with hardship until his journey.
Weaknesses:
Bilbo is small, not strong, and untrained. As he says himself, he is no warrior. Actually, he has no combat skill at all to begin with, and is very shaky and awkward with the sword he does begin to use. He's more dependable in avoiding a fight than in helping during one.
Hobbit feet are very durable and tough, to the point they need to shoes. This would be an advantage, and sometimes is, but it has proven to be very detrimenal over some terrain such as the goblin halls that sorely bruised them.
Typically, hobbits are not good with heights, preferring to live in holes and with no second floors. However, so far, Bilbo has seemed to keep his head.
Bilbo's comfortable rut and self-doubt have kept him stationary, even almost stagnant. Fortunately, he's quickly growing out of this thanks to his experiences on his journey, and Luceti is likely to provide a similar push towards growth.
The One Ring is a double-edged power. While Bilbo only knows it as a convenience, the more he uses it, the more susceptible to its corruption he will become.
[2/3] Bilbo Baggins | The Hobbit
Bilbo can be very set in his ways and a creature of habit. He dislikes disruptions, most particularly unexpected ones such as thirteen dwarves and a wizard turning up on his doorstep. He rises to that particular occasion simply because he is also a homebody, proud of simple virtues such as hospitality and obliging his guests. To be honest, he can be stuffy and overly concerned with the minor, proper details of daily life. This is a hobbit seriously prepared to halt an entire company's journey because he forgot a pocket handkercheif, and laments the loss of his buttons for quite some time.
He wasn't always like this. As a child, he grew up on stories of adventures and lands beyond the Shire, and elves. He wanted to explore and experience the world, and it's that part of Bilbo that Gandalf wants to rekindle when he rigs Bilbo's role in this adventure.
Whether then or now, he is brave when he has to be. While normally timid, he has faced down terrible goblins and trolls if it means protecting someone important to him. He has gained a sword, and he will eventually name it once he has done great deeds with it; these are within his capability even if he's not fully sure of that fact himself. He's good in a tight spot and rises to the occasion.
He is also loyal. He is spurred to his greatest acts by his concern for his comrades and friends. Even his decision to stick with the dwarves on their quest is motivated by loyalty - and kindness, recognizing that he wants to help their situation. This is the mercy and compassion that ultimately makes him choose to spare Gollum. It also makes him prefer to think his way out of a problem and find another solution, rather than defaulting to battle. He's no warrior.
Alongside this loyalty and mercy, Bilbo has a strong conscience. This will eventually compel him to repay the elvenking for the food stolen during the time he was trying to free the dwarves. It will also push him to look for a win-win scenario once the situation at the mountain becomes a standoff - even at the price of alienating his comrades if it will bring a larger settlement and peace.
He also has a strong sense of personal pride. As soon as the others doubt, even while he's unsure of himself, he sets out to prove himself. This ocacsionally gets him intro trouble as he's been known to face danger simply to show that he is, in fact a 'real burglar' and asset to the company.
However, Bilbo feels out of his depth a lot. He is out of his depth a lot, whether on this grandiose adventure throughout the lands of Middle Earth when he's a homebody hobbit, or whether in a place like Luceti where nothing is like anything he's ever heard of. He is prone to self-doubt, and doubt of his own skills and abilities, until he grows in confidence.
Strengths:
Bilbo makes a better 'burglar' type than he'd admit. Hobbits are capable of moving very quietly, so quietly as to be unnoticed. They are also resilient, especially mentally. Bilbo is, ultimately, able to resist the One Ring's corruption not perfectly, but remarkably well.
He's better at quick thinking than fighting. He's the one who thinks to play for time when facing the trolls (and let the morning light do the work), and when pressed, he's the one of the group who tends to have more creative solutions. He can be somewhat ingenious. He enjoys riddles and knows them very well.
Growing up, Bilbo relates that he enjoyed conkers, which has given him at least some accuracy with thrown projectiles: stones. He's also slowly learning to use a sword... but at this point, he has no especial skill with it. It's something he may be willing to work at in Luceti in the hopes it will stand him in good stead if he returns to his world and quest.
While it's not his own power, it should be noted he does have the One Ring, which he knows he can use to seem to vanish. In reality, it draws him into the Twilight World, but this is unknown to him, and he is unaware of its vast other potential. He is equally unaware of the danger it represents, and thus feels able to use it freely.
Although this is also largely irrelevant in Luceti, Bilbo is from a wealthy background, wealthy enough that relatives are hopeful of inheritance (and his nice hobbit hole) and that he can live as a gentleman of leisure. This can also be a drawback in that it makes him unfamiliar with hardship until his journey.
Weaknesses:
Bilbo is small, not strong, and untrained. As he says himself, he is no warrior. Actually, he has no combat skill at all to begin with, and is very shaky and awkward with the sword he does begin to use. He's more dependable in avoiding a fight than in helping during one.
Hobbit feet are very durable and tough, to the point they need to shoes. This would be an advantage, and sometimes is, but it has proven to be very detrimenal over some terrain such as the goblin halls that sorely bruised them.
Typically, hobbits are not good with heights, preferring to live in holes and with no second floors. However, so far, Bilbo has seemed to keep his head.
Bilbo's comfortable rut and self-doubt have kept him stationary, even almost stagnant. Fortunately, he's quickly growing out of this thanks to his experiences on his journey, and Luceti is likely to provide a similar push towards growth.
The One Ring is a double-edged power. While Bilbo only knows it as a convenience, the more he uses it, the more susceptible to its corruption he will become.