Post by kthehuman on Mar 3, 2013 3:38:43 GMT -5
Bilbo Baggins
Age: 50
Rank: Lost
Canon Pull Point: Immediately after "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Gandalf just saved the company from imminent death by requested the aid of giant eagles. After landing, the company made camp to rest for a while. Bilbo fell asleep only to wake up in a desert.
Appearance:
Bilbo is a hobbit. As such, he is about half the size of a human. He is beardless, but has extremely large, hairy feet. As all respectable Hobbits do, he does not wear shoes. He has brown pants that extend just past his knees, a beige undershirt with a green vest, and a maroon overcoat with a multitude of pockets. On his current journey, he carries with him a green pack to hold his various belongings. He brought along a walking stick to assist him with his travels; more recently, he has also acquired an elvish dagger - at his size, though, it's more like a sword.
Bilbo has brown, curly hair that is nearing his shoulders. He has gray-blue eyes and lightly tanned skin. He can often be found with his eyebrows furrowed, especially when confronted with a situation that is less than ideal - be it thirteen companionable dwarves and a friendly wizard or three large trolls that want to have him for supper. As a hobbit, Bilbo is naturally good at the shadowy arts. He can be very light of step when he so desires, and can hide nearly in plain sight.
Personality
Bilbo, as most hobbits, was a friendly creature. He lived a peaceful life in his hobbit-hole in the Shire for 50 years. As such, he is not one to get angry easily, and does not relish in direct confrontation. He would sooner offer you food, drink, and a full pipe than get into an argument. He had a saying that he was fond of when greeting strangers and friends alike: "At your service and your families." This was all that a proper Baggins should want.
However, Bilbo is not an ordinary Baggins. He was also a part of the Took family, who were known for their love of travel and adventure. Thus, he did have a secret longing for adventure; when Gandalf and the dwarves came knocking - though he denied it at first - he was ecstatic...and scared. As an adventurer, he has found that he has been able to do more than he or any of the dwarves believed himself capable. He is very clever, thinking up unlikely ways to get out of a situation. He is also brave, not running from battle unless told otherwise by either Gandalf or Thorin, leader of the company.
He and Thorin have a complicated relationship. Bilbo likes Thorin quite a bit; at the very least, he respects him as a leader and a warrior. Thorin, however, believes him to be a nuisance and a mistake to bring along. As such, Bilbo has been trying to prove himself to Thorin. Sometimes, though, he believes that Thorin might be right.
History:
Bilbo spent much of his life in Bag End, the hobbit-hole home that his father, Bungo Baggins, built for his mother, Belladonna Took. As a young hobbit, he was always curious and eager for news of the outside world - a quality that Gandalf would remember in later years. Gandalf would visit Hobbiton from time to time with small tricks of magic, as well as a fireworks show that all of the children - and most of the adults, even if they wouldn't admit it - loved and looked forward to. It has been said that Bilbo practiced his rock-throwing skills so much that squirrels and birds fled the area when he came around. He lived with his parents until their deaths - his father died when he was 35 and his mother died when he was 43. For the next seven years, he lived in Bag End as a wealthy bachelor, and earned a reputation with his neighbors as a very respectable hobbit.
Some time after he turned 50, Bilbo was visited by Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield. They were on a journey to gain take their homeland back from the dragon, Smaug, that rested on the dwarves' gold that dwelled within their home, Erebor in the Lonely Mountain. After eating roughly all of Bilbo's food, the company requested that he join them as their Burglar. Bilbo adamantly refused at first. In the morning though, when he found that they had already left, he scrambled to pack his things and catch up.
His first duty as Burglar came one night as they rested in the mountains. Some trolls had taken their riding ponies, planning on having them for supper. Fili and Kili, two brothers of the company, ordered him to sneak in and release the ponies. Unfortunately, he was captured. Upon trying to rescue him, the rest of the company was captured as well - Gandalf was not among them, however. Bilbo manages to stall the trolls from eating them, talking to them until the sun had risen. Gandalf assisted by splitting a large rock in two, allowing the sun to shine on the trolls long before it would have. In the nearby cave that the trolls were living in, the company found several Elvish weapons - including Bilbo's dagger.
The next trial came in the Misty Mountains; the company was captured by the Goblin King and his innumerable forces. Bilbo broke away from the company when they were first captured, however, and successfully fell down a dank, dark hole into a dank, dark cavern. It was here that he found a ring and a creature that called itself Gollum. Literally, it called itself Gollum while speaking to itself. He played a game of riddles with the creature to barter for his life, but Gollum found his last riddle dissatisfying. Ergo, he tried to kill the hobbit anyway. Bilbo ran, and discovered purely by chance that the ring he discovered lent him the power to turn invisible. Using this, he escaped Gollum and met up with the company.
Almost immediately after meeting up with the company on the side of the mountain, the company is in danger again. A troop of orcs and wargs came upon them, and chased them to the edge of a cliff. There, they took refuge in a large pine tree. To keep them at bay, Gandalf used his magic to imbue pine cones with the ability to spread fire. He passed these throughout the company, who tossed them down upon the wargs and orcs. They didn't complete their task, however, before the wargs had done enough damage to knock the tree over. At this point, many of the company were dangling over the edge, hanging onto the tree for dear life. Thorin, however, got up and walked toward a white-skinned orc - the orc that killed his grandfather, who had been their King. During the fight, he was downed, and an orc was preparing to deal the final blow. As the orc raised its sword, Bilbo tackled it to the ground, saving Thorin. The rest of the company succeeded in climbing to the ground, and they fought the orcs and wargs off for a short while. Not long after, giant eagles joined in the fray - Gandalf had called for their aid. Upon their appearance, their enemies retreated, and the eagles carried the company to safety.
It was in this safety that Thorin confronted Bilbo. He recounted all the things he had said about Bilbo being a mistake; Bilbo thought it was a wonderful apology (sarcasm). Thorin surprised him, though, engulfing him in a hug, and saying, "Never have I been more wrong." That is how Bilbo earned the respect and friendship of Thorin Oakenshield, the King-in-Exile.
