The throng is adventuring through the Mirkwood forest when Wood-Elves that are armed capture the dwarves, Bilbo is not due to him wearing the ring he got from Gollum. Bilbo, instead of getting help he followed the elves to their palace where the dwarves are taken. Bilbo finds where the dwarves are being held and speaks to Thorin, head dwarf, who tells him to not reveal the mission to the Elvenking. When Bilbo is told this he comes up with a way of freeing the dwarves. Bilbo decides that the best way to get out is by going through the chute that the elves dump wine into. The plan is a success and the throng escapes the Wood-Elves. If Bilbo wasn’t heroic enough the adventure would have most likely end there and they couldn’t go …show more content…
In The Hobbit, Bilbo sees that a war is about to break out, when hearing this he tries to satisfy everyone's needs. The five armies were about to start, but Bard gave the Arkenstone to Thorin to try to make him happy but only made him vexed. It was going to be the wargs and goblins versus the dwarves, elves, and men. It looked like it was going to be a bloody war with many casualties and even though there was no way for them to not fight Bilbo didn’t care. Bilbo decided to throw himself in the middle of them to try to stop them, but all it did was cause someone to throw a rock at Bilbo and knock him out. Even though there looked like there wasn’t hope for a war to not g on Bilbo didn’t care, he risked his life to try to keep others safe making him a