Bilbo Baggins Character Analysis

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book because of a couple big reason, these reason are the amount of static and dynamic, the way the book uses flashbacks to describe people are their actions, and the evolution of the main character Bilbo Baggins. The 3 big dynamic characters are Gandalf, Bilbo, and Thorin. They changed gradually throughout the story making it feel like something that could happen in real life. The style of writing was pretty unique because a lot of the book is flashbacks, this told a story within another story adding more depth than most books contain. The last big reason why I liked this book is because of the main character Bilbo Baggins, he starts off being a person conflicted by the two sides of himself, Baggins and Took. After

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