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* [[Ravens and Crows]]: The ravens that live near the Lonely Mountain are friendly to the Dwarves.
* [[Recursive Canon]]
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Many parts of the novel has the protagonist or his friends valiantly escape danger only for grim reality to sink in:
** Bilbo's makes a thrilling escape from the goblins in chapter 5 and emerges from the cave triumphantly, only to realize, at the next chapter's start, that he has no idea where he is, has no supplies, and has been separated from the dwarves. He realizes they might still be prisoners of the goblins, and even considers going back into the caves to look for them until he hears Balin doing lookout.
** The battle with the spiders in chapter 8 seems thrilling, until they realize they're hopelessly lost in the forest; this gets even worse when someone realizes, "Where's Thorin?"
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Thorin}}
* [[Retcon]]: Cleverly invoked via [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]. Bilbo intentionally wrote down a less controversial way of how he got the ring (i.e. the original edition of ''The Hobbit'') in his memoirs. Gandalf found this very weird given Bilbo's honest character, which is why in ''The Lord of the Rings'' he suspects the ring of influencing him. Early versions of the altered text (i.e. the 1951 second edition) mention this in an introduction.
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