Both of the small protagonists need to travel a tiresome amount of time to reach their destination. Willow, however, tries to save the fate of a baby while Bilbo tries to reclaim treasure that a dragon had stolen. Willow and Bilbo also meet new friends along their journeys that help them reach their end goal. Both stories hold the concept of a quest, and the concepts are similar in many ways.
Each story’s protagonist learned something new about their own personalities. At the start of each story, Willow and Bilbo had almost no faith in themselves. As their quests unfolded, they soon became the heroes of their own groups. Willow saved Elora from certain doom with his disappearing trick. Bilbo, the hobbit, saved his party from spiders and elves. If these characters did not survive, their quests would not have succeeded. The realization of their changes were shockingly strong as Willow and Bilbo became the heroes.
The presence of self-sacrifice in these stories was a key part in the way events played out. Willow and Bilbo forfeited much of their own time to finish these quests. Bilbo’s house was almost taken away by this choice, and Willow did not see his family for what seemed like an eternity. Each character did something they did not want to do to help another. These heroic acts of self-sacrifice show how Bilbo and Willow dismissed their own desires in order to help