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Separation occurs when Bilbo meets the dwarves and Gandalf. After first refusing to go on the adventure, he accepts and meets the dwarves at the Green Dragon Inn. Another example of separation is when Bilbo is separated from Thorin and Company and Gandalf, in the Mirkwood Elves' domain. This would not be considered Bilbo literally being separated by his family. By this example, I mean that Bilbo is separated from his "family". It's like how people consider people a part of their family, even though they aren't, because they have a very strong bond with each other, and consider each other family.

Bilbo's mentor throughout his rigorous training was Gandalf. Throughout most of his trials and perils, Gandalf was there supporting or observing. Another example is when the thrush is watching Bilbo in Chapter 12. Bilbo's first trial, as I previously stated, was when he had the encounter with the trolls. In this encounter, Bilbo goes to inspect a red light shining through the trees. This is what he saw. "Three very large persons sitting round a very large fire of beech-logs. They were toasting mutton on long spits of wood, and licking the gravy off their fingers. There was a fine toothsome smell. Also there was a barrel of good drink at hand, and they were drinking out of jugs. But they were trolls. (further in the chapter) He was very much alarmed, as well as disgusted; he wished himself a hundred miles away, and yet-and yet somehow he could not go straight back to Thorin and Company empty-handed. So he stood and hesitated in the shadows. Of the various burglarious proceedings he had heard of picking the trolls' pockets seemed the least difficult, so at last he crept behind a tree just behind William." But when Bilbo attempts to steal something from the trolls, he gets caught. He runs as the trolls quarrel about what to do with Bilbo. Soon he find Balin, but Balin is spotted by one of the trolls. The trolls, after capturing Balin, gather sacks and wait for the other dwarves, always capturing them after they "silently" went up the hill. Bilbo was hidden in a bush, but just then Gandalf arrives. This is a perfect example of Gandalf coming to support Thorin and Company. Gandalf mimics the sound of each of the trolls to keep the argument going until day comes, when they turn to stone. Then Gandalf and Bilbo untie Thorin and Company. This trial made Bilbo a braver person, and is the first major part of his internal odyssey.

Bilbo's second trial is his experience with Gollum. After leaving The Last Homely House, Thorin and Company head into a mountain to use as shelter for the night. In the middle of the night the group is awakened to the sight of a hole in the mountain with goblins coming out. The goblins bring the group to the Great Goblin and they are found to be enemies. Then, in the midst of battle, a sword then goes through the Great Goblin. Then they find out it was Gandalf. In the dark passages, Bilbo suddenly falls off of Dori, and goes tumbling into darkness. He wakes up and crawls through a tunnel, until he feels a tiny, cold, ring of metal, and slips it on. Bilbo meets Gollum, and plays a game with him, a game of riddles, and cheats him. Soon he realizes it makes him invisible. And then, he leaped above Gollum,, sprinting down the new tunnel. He then escapes, learning from this trial that it is good to be able to be clever and quick thinking on the go.

Bibo's third major trial is the event with the spiders. After walking through Mirkwood for awhile, Bilbo and the others are seemingly going mad. Soon, they stumble upon a red twinkle of light, and try to inspect it, but it magically goes out, and with it, all the songs and music. They try and try, until eventually the lights go out, replaced with smoke, ashes, and cinders. They lose each other(not for the first time), and Bilbo tries to find them. "But the cries of the others got steadily further and fainter, and though after a while it seemed to him they changed to yells and cries for help in the far distance, all noise at last died right away, and he was left alone in complete silence and darkness. That was one of Bilbo's most miserable moments.(later in the chapter) So he sat himself down with his back to a tree, and not for the last time fell to thinking of his far-distant hobbit-hole with its beautiful pantries. He was deep in thoughts of bacon and eggs and toast and butter when he felt something touch him. Something like a strong sticky string was against his left hand, and when he tried to move he found that his legs were already wrapped in the same stuff, so that when he got up he fell over." Then the spider who had been busy tying him up came at him. 'He had a desperate fight before he got free. He beat the creature off with his hands-it was trying to poison him to keep him quiet." Then Bilbo pulls out Sting, and cuts himself free, to defeat the spider. He soon realizes the dwarves are alive, and saves poor, fat Bombur from being killed, by throwing a stone at the spider who was about to kill him, and killing the spider instead. Soon the spider colony begin to chase the unknown enemy, and Bilbo gets an idea. He would get the spiders to follow him far from the dwarves. He then begins taunting them. After leading them away, Bilbo quietly sneaks back to Thorin and Company, to free them. As they are almost done, Bilbo notices the spiders have tied up Bombur again and are dragging them. He once again saves him, and has him propped up between Bifur and Bofur. Bilbo brings up the rear, using Sting to defend the group. He then announces he will disappear, to draw the spiders away, which he does, then saving the weary group. This trial also makes Bilbo a braver person.

Bilbo's fourth trial is the Mirkwood Elves. After defeating the spiders, Dwalin realizes that Thorin isn't with them. He had been taken by the Mirkwood Elves, who were actually decent people, but if they had a fault, it was distrust of strangers. They put Thorin in a dungeon, and sent a group of elves to find the rest of the dwarves. "The day after the battle with the spiders Bilbo and the dwarves made one last despairing effort to find a way out before they died of hunger and thirst. They got up and staggered on in the direction which eight out of the thirteen of them guessed to be the one in which the path lay; but they never found out if they were right. Such day as there ever was in the forest was fading once more into the blackness of night, when suddenly out sprang the light of many torches all round them, like hundreds of red stars. Out leaped Wood-elves with their bows and spears and called the dwarves to halt. There was no thought of a fight. Even if the dwarves had not been in such a state that they were actually glad to be captured, their small knives, the only weapons they had, would have been of no use against the arrows of the elves that could hit a bird's eye in the dark. So they simply stopped dead and sat down and waited-all except Bilbo, who popped on his ring and slipped quickly to one side." This is why the elves never counted or caught Bilbo. Bilbo spent a long time pondering over how he would escape with the dwarves. He found out where each of the dwarves lived, about two weeks into Thorin and Company's imprisonment. Bilbo has a talk with Thorin, and spreads a message to the other dwarves. Bilbo soon discovers a possible way to get out of their prison, which is to be stuffed into wine barrels, and float. They pull it off, heading down to the Lake. This trial leaves Bilbo with a new sense of how to be stealthy, and why it's very important, aiding in Bilbo's next trial.

Bilbo's 6th trial is Smaug. After clearing up the mess with the Elves and the Men, Thorin and Company find what appears to be a keyhole leading to Smaug, and the treasure. They try with all their might to open it up, too eager to look at the runes and moon-letters, but tried without resting to discover where exactly in the smooth face of the rock the door was hidden. About 1-2 days later, Bilbo finds there is something going on with the mysterious spot and calls everyone. They realize they need the key that Thorin has. "Then Thorin stepped up and drew the key on its chain from round his neck. He put it to the hole. It fitted and it turned! Snap! The gleam went out, the sun sank, the moon was gone, and evening sprang into the sky. Now they all pushed together, and slowly a part of the rock-wall gave way. Long straight cracks appeared and widened. A door five feet high and three broad was out - lined, and slowly without a sound swung inwards. It seemed as if darkness flowed out like a vapour from the hole in the mountain-side, and deep darkness in which nothing could be seen lay before their eyes mouth leading in and down." The dwarves and Bilbo decide to send Bilbo to Smaug's lair to investigate. As proof of his visit, Bilbo steals a cup. The dwarves are delighted and praise him. Soon they hear a rumbling, and then a roaring, and knew Smaug had found out about the cup."There they would have all been killed, if it had not been for Bilbo once again. "Quick! Quick!" he gasped. "The door! The tunnel! It's no good here." Roused by these words they were just about to creep inside the tunnel when Bifur gave a cry: "My cousins! Bombur and Bofur - we have forgotten them, they are down in the valley!" Thorin and Company still, barely get Bofur, Bombur, and some supplies up the mountain, just before Smaug begins to spew fire. Later Bilbo agrees to go down to the treasure. Bilbo peeks out of the entrance, but realizes that Smaug sees him. They have a conversation, ending with Smaug spouting terrific flames after him. Later in the story, Thorin and Company get news that Smaug has been defeated. This ends Bilbo's trials with Smaug. The encounters with Smaug make Bilbo a very brave person, and also teach him to be prepared for anything. This is a part of Bilbo's triumph over death.

The final trial of Bilbo's is the Battle of The Five Armies. After finding out the goblins are coming, the Elves, Men, and Dwarves, forget their problems, and decide to work together to defeat the goblins. The elves were the first to charge. Their hatred for the goblins is cold and bitter. Their spears and swords shone in the gloom with a gleam of chill flame, so deadly was the wrath of the hands that held them. As soon as the host of their enemies was dense in the valley, they sent against it a shower of arrows, and each flickered as it fled as if with stinging fire. Behind the arrows a thousand of their spearmen leapt down and charged. The yells were deafening. The rocks were stained black with goblin blood. Just as the goblins were recovering from the onslaught and the elf-charge was halted, there rose from across the valley a deep-throated roar. With cries of "Moria!" and "Dain, Dain!" the dwarves of the Iron Hills plunged in, wielding their mattocks, upon the other side; and beside them came the men of the Lake with long swords. Panic came upon the Goblins; and even as they turned to meet this new attack, the elves charged again with renewed numbers. Already many of the goblins were flying back down the river to escape from the trap: and many of their own wolves were turning upon them and rending the dead and the wounded. Victory seemed at hand, when a cry rang out on the heights above. Goblins had scaled the Mountain from the other side and already many were on the slopes above the Gate, and others were streaming down recklessly, heedless of those that fell screaming from cliff and precipice, to attack the spurs from above. Each of these could be reached by paths that ran down from the main mass of the Mountain in the centre; and the defenders had too few to bar the way for long. Victory now vanished from hope. They had only stemmed the first onslaught of the black tide.Day drew on. The goblins gathered again in the valley. There a host of Wargs came ravening and with them came the bodyguard of Bolg, goblins of huge size with scimitars of steel. Soon actual darkness was coming into a stormy sky; while still the great bats swirled about the heads and ears of elves and men, or fastened vampire-like on the stricken. Now Bard was fighting to defend the Eastern spur, and yet giving slowly back; and the elf-lords were at bay about their king upon the southern arm, near to the watch-post on Ravenhill. Suddenly there was a great shout, and from the Gate came a trumpet call. They had forgotten Thorin! Part of the wall, moved by levers, fell outward with a crash into the pool. Out leapt the King under the Mountain, and his companions followed him. Hood and cloak were gone; they were in shining armour, and red light leapt from their eyes. In the gloom the great dwarf gleamed like gold in a dying fire. Rocks were buried down from on high by the goblins above; but they held on. leapt down to the falls' foot, and rushed forward to battle. Wolf and rider fell or fled before them. Thorin wielded his axe with mighty strokes, and nothing seemed to harm him. Down, heedless of order, rushed all the dwarves of Dain to his help. Down too came many of the Lake-men, for Bard could not restrain them; and out upon the other side came many of the spearmen of the elves. Once again the goblins were stricken in the valley; and they were piled in heaps till Dale was dark and hideous with their corpses. The Wargs were scattered and Thorin drove right against the bodyguards of Bolg. But he could not pierce their ranks. Already behind him among the goblin dead lay many men and many dwarves, and many a fair elf that should have lived yet long ages merrily in the wood. And as the valley widened his onset grew ever slower. His numbers were too few. His flanks were unguarded. Soon the attackers were attacked, and they were forced into a great ring, facing every way, hemmed all about with goblins and wolves returning to the assault. The bodyguard of Bolg came howling against them, and drove in upon their ranks like waves upon cliffs of sand. Their friends could not help them, for the assault from the Mountain was renewed with redoubled force, and upon either side men and elves were being slowly beaten down." Bilbo looked with misery upon this, until he saw the eagles. "The Eagles! The Eagles are coming!" Soon others began to take up the cry. The eagles were a big reason as to why the war was won. This trial taught Bilbo to never give up. This also is the second part of Bilbo's triumph over death.

An epiphany (the feeling) is an experience of sudden and striking realization. Bilbo's epiphany occurs when he has a conversation with Thorin, and when he finds out that Fili and Kili died. ""Farewell, good thief," he said. "I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate."

Bilbo knelt on one knee filled with sorrow. "Farewell, King under the Mountain!" he said. "This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves." "No!" said Thorin. "There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!" Then Bilbo turned away, and he went by himself, and sat alone wrapped in a blanket, and, whether you believe it or not, he wept until his eyes were red and his voice was hoarse. He was a kindly little soul. Indeed it was long before he had the heart to make a joke again. "A mercy it is," he said at last to himself, "that I woke up when I did. I wish Thorin were living, but I am glad that we parted in kindness. You are a fool, Bilbo Baggins, and you made a great mess of that business with the stone; and there was a battle, in spite of all your efforts to buy peace and quiet, but I suppose you can hardly be blamed for that."

The 2nd Trial

The Hero's Quest and Bilbo Baggins

3rd Trial

5th Trial

Final Trial

The End! (Epiphany)

4th Trial

Birth

Bilbo Baggins was the child of Belladonna Took, who was apparently a part of the family who had married a fairy.

Training

Initiation Begins

Initiation begins when Bilbo undergoes his first trial, which was to face the trolls. Initiation was also being conducted when he was traveling before the arriving upon the trolls' location.

Separation

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