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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Bombur. He always manages to come last in everything, and if one of the dwarves slips and falls into a river, gets caught by an enchantment or has something unpleasant or humiliating happen to him, it'll be Bombur.
* [[Call to Adventure]]: One of the classics.
{{quote| ''By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) -- {{media
* [[Canon Welding]]: When he began writing the sequel, Tolkien moved it and ''The Hobbit'' into his Middle-Earth legendarium setting, which had already been around for over twenty years, although nothing of it had been published so far. The move brought with it some [[Retcon]] and [[Rewrite]] concerning the events of ''The Hobbit'', which was partly explained as Bilbo being an [[Unreliable Narrator]]. (Or rather, a Reliable Narrator whose lying about the recovery of the Ring was extremely portentous and whose knowledge of the Elder Days wasn't quite up to snuff.)
* [[The Caper]]: Stealing the treasure.
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