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Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.'' }}
The precursor to ''[[
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A sequel was requested by his publishers, and as work on ''The Lord of the Rings'' progressed, Tolkien made accommodations for it in Chapter 5 of ''The Hobbit''. These few but significant changes were integrated into the second edition. Further editions followed, correcting minor errors and reflecting Tolkien's changing concept of the world into which Bilbo stumbled (removing references to policemen, for example).
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* A 1966 short film directed by Gene Deitch, made as an [[Ashcan Copy]] (more info [http://genedeitchcredits.com/40-william-l-snyder/ here]). According to Deitch it was screened only once in June 1966 to an audience of about six people (to fulfill the part of the contract saying the film had to be shown in public). Despite being the ''only'' screen adaptation of Tolkien's work produced when he was still alive, he never saw it (leading Deitch to say [[Creator Backlash|"Thank God!"]])
* A 1968 [[The BBC|BBC Radio 4]] Dramatisation in 8 half-hour episodes. The master tapes for this were wiped in the '70s (a routine event for the BBC in this period) but [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|a domestic recording]] was later recovered and used to re-issue the series.
* [[The Hobbit (
* A [[The Hobbit (
* Several video-game versions: there's an [[Interactive Fiction]] game of ''The Hobbit'', which is considered to be one of the defining entries in the genre, and a video game made in 2003.
* A highly regarded [[Graphic Novel]] version approved by the Tolkien estate, illustrated by David Wenzel in 1991.
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=== ''The Hobbit'' provides examples of (or the sources for): ===
* [[All There in the Manual]]: ''The Quest for Erebor'' in ''[[Unfinished
** It was highly rumored the "second" [[Peter Jackson]] ''Hobbit'' movie would actually be an interquel covering these events. That has since been [[Jossed]] by the [[Word of God]]. Gandalf's experiences are mixed in with the original story, they don't consist an entire movie by themselves.
* [[Always Chaotic Evil]]: The goblins and the wargs [[Call a Rabbit
* [[Anti-Hero]]
** Bilbo starts off as a Type I, often left a bystander while events happen around him. However after choosing to spare Gollum, and especially in Mirkwood, he manages to become more of a straight hero.
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** The elves live in caves in Mirkwood.
** And of course Smaug, and later the dwarves, live under Erebor; Erebor's king was known as King Under the Mountain.
* [[The Berserker]]: Beorn. He transforms himself into a bear, which Berserkers usually did in [[The Icelandic Sagas
* [[Big Bad Wolves]]: Wargs
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Quite a few times.
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* [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word]]:
{{quote| '''Gloin:''' You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do. It's all the same to us.}}
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Beorn, at least [[Jerk
* [[Book Ends]]
* [[Boring Return Journey]]: While Bilbo does have (unspecified) troubles on his return journey, "he was never in great danger" -- mainly because this time, Gandalf is with him all the way and the region's goblins have just had their butts whupped and are in hiding.
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* [[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.
* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: Bilbo's "magic ring" is revealed in ''[[
* [[The Chooser of the One]]: Gandalf
* [[The Chosen Zero]]: The dwarves react to Bilbo this way. Ironically he doesn't even know he's been hired as an adventurer.
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* [[Contemptible Cover]]: [http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/dmiller/images/000137.jpg This one], which Tolkien himself [[Word of God|hated with a passion]]. This edition also didn't include Thorin's map, which is actually referenced in the text as being in the front of the book.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Gandalf
* [[Cue the Sun]]: Bilbo's rescue from the trolls. Gandalf, unseen, keeps re-igniting the argument the trolls have about how to cook the prisoners until sun-up, effectively [[Talking the Monster
* [[Cultured Badass]]: Pretty much all the protagonist dwarves, shown when they break out musical instruments (Thorin himself plays a harp) and explain their purpose to Bilbo by way of singing "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold".
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: Bilbo gives out a loud warning shout in the cave.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Concerned that the original book seemed a bit too light in tone compared to ''[[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The [[Lemony Narrator]].
* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: With the help of the Ring, Bilbo manages to exchange a few taunting words with Smaug, and leaves to tell the tale. Wasn't exactly the best idea since Smaug tried to roast him and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|goes off and burns down Dale.]]
* [[Elves Versus Dwarves]]
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: The Necromancer, mentioned in passing by Gandalf. In ''[[
* [[Exploring the Evil Lair]]
* [[The Fair Folk]]: The narrator says that Wood Elves can be a lot closer to this than High Elves.
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* [[Giant Spider|Giant Spiders]]
* [[Gold Fever]]: The curse of a dragon's hoard. It nearly leads Thorin to war with Lake Town and the Wood Elves, and leads to the old master of Lake Town stealing most of the treasure and dying in the wilds once it's all over. Bilbo, on the other hand, is (mostly) immune.
* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: Arguably, similar to ''[[
* [[Grim Up North]]: The Withered Heath.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Gandalf describes Beorn has having this.
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* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Rivendell
* [[Hobbits]]: [[Trope Maker]], [[Trope Codifier]], and most likely [[Ur Example]] as well.
* [[Home, Sweet Home]]
* [[Honour Before Reason]]: Bilbo refusing to kill Gollum out of pity.
* [[Horse of a Different Color]]
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* [[I Should Write a Book About This]]: And Bilbo did, resulting in the Memoirs ''There And Back Again: A Hobbit's Holiday'', which [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|cheekily is implied by Tolkien]] to be the novel's "base."
* [[Jerkass]]: Thorin
* [[Jerk
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Smaug is said to be the last of the ''great dragons'', though there are presumably still lesser dragons.
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Tolkien, as narrator, interjects several asides to the audience in each chapter; he later grew tired of this trope (it hardly appears at all in ''[[
* [[A Light in
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The story is "compiled" from Bilbo's memoirs.
* [[The Lost Woods]]: Mirkwood
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* [[Nobody Here But Us Birds]]: "Hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl." Parodied in that Bilbo can't even do a ''generic'' owl sound, much less specific ones.
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Gandalf
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Bilbo spends the majority of the Battle of Five Armies knocked unconscious after a rock hits him in the head. When he wakes up, he's told that Beorn even entered the fray ''[[Everything's Worse
* [[One Bullet Left]]: Bard shoots the dragon with the only arrow he has left. Although more justified in this case, as the one left is also a special one inherited through generations, and just before the shot Bard is told the dragon's weak spot.
* [[One Sided Battle]]
* [[Only Smart People May Pass]]: The Riddle Game with Gollum, whose offer is to show Bilbo the way out of the caves (or to make a meal out of Bilbo if Bilbo loses the game). Played straight in the first few riddles (some of which are real stumpers), but subverted by the winning riddle: which is just a stupid question by Bilbo which Gollum mistook for a riddle. Of course, Gollum intended to cheat all along, since he had the Ring (or thought he did).<br />According to ''The Lord of the Rings'', this led to substantial in-universe debate over whether Bilbo technically cheated. However, the scholars do agree that once Gollum ''accepted the question'', he was bound by the rules of the game, especially since Bilbo actually gave him multiple chances to get it right -- and ''he'' cheated on the last chance (guessing two separate things: "String, or nothing!").
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: The [[Trope Codifier]], though since there are thirteen of them in the main party, some of them do get one or two individual personality traits. (Thorin is pompous and long-winded, Dori is a [[Jerk
* [[Our Goblins Are Different]]: The story is "''teeming'' with goblins, hobgoblins and orcs of the ''[[Lemony Narrator|worst]]'' description!". [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orc]] is said to be the untranslated Westron word for goblin; see for example the sword ''Orc''rist, and it's translated name, the Goblin-Cleaver.
* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]] : Beorn the "skin-changer" is able to undergo [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] in battle and take the form of a bear. Tolkien took inspiration from the legendary [[The Berserker|berserkir]] of [[Norse Mythology]] (warriors covered of animal pelts and consecrated to Odinn, who allegedly changed into wolf-men or bear-men in the frenzy of battle).
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* [[Rule of Three]]
* [[Sacred Hospitality]]
* [[Sequel Hook]]: But only in later editions to fit with the actual [[The Lord of the Rings
* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: As Bilbo grows in standing with the dwarves he finds himself growing increasingly exasperated at their frequent pettiness and complaining and basically tells them to grow up several times. And each one is ''awesome.''
* [[Sibling Team]]: In order: Balin and Dwalin; Fili and Kili; Oin and Gloin; and Bofur and Bombur (Bifur is their cousin). And the first nine listed, along with their leader Thorin II Oakenshield, are descended from Durin I, one of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves. (Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are descended from another of the Seven.)
* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]: Bard; Beorn
* [[Standing Between the Enemies]]: Gandalf stood between the Three Armies (Human, Elf, and Dwarf) to point out that their common enemies the Goblins were approaching on Warg-back.
* [[Stay
* [[Stolen MacGuffin Reveal]]: Bilbo gets to do this a few times.
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Gandalf leaves the group before they enter Mirkwood, and reappears just in time at the end to warn the good guys of the coming attack.
* [[Stronger
* [[Sue Donym]]: "a bur-- a hobbit." "a burrahobbit?"
* [[Sundial Waypoint]]
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* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Bilbo starts out doing as well as you'd expect a homebody away from home would do. He gets better, with the description of his first spider kill almost coming across as gaining a [[Character Level]].
* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: Bilbo. A variation in that he's grown up aware that magical people and things ''exist'', but like most Hobbits in the Shire, he has not had a lot of first-hand experience with it until that one fateful day.
* [[Unholy Holy Sword]]: [[It Was His Sled|The Ring]], although [[The Reveal]] doesn't actually come around until [[The Lord of the Rings
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Retroactively explained Bilbo to be this to account for the differences from the sequel.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Beorn
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