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Bilbo Baggins

Adventures: Those “nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things”

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Adventures: Those “nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things”

It scares me. It scares me like nothing before in my life. Which makes it all the more important to set out and do it.

Recall Bilbo after the dwarves invited him on a journey to kill a dragon and then left him alone in his hobbit hole to ponder it all. He sighed to himself and surveyed his home thinking how nice it was they had finally departed. All was quiet and back to normal. Except now something was stirring inside of him. Bilbo had felt this stirring before—a spark that had been burning from within since he was a boy was suddenly set ablaze by the dwarves' proposal. It was growing, growing like a wildfire that sent him fleeing out his door, willingly leaving his mother's doilies and his valued 'kerchief behind.

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