No one could call Bilbo Baggins cowardly. In The
Hobbit, Bilbo plainly tell Gandalf he has no plans for an adventure. However,
his mind is slowly swayed when a virtual fleet of dwarves show up and enter his hobbit
hole. They stay for meals and sing their songs. The dwarves' final song talks about the
odyssey they will begin in the morning. They will travel over the misty mountains, enter
the dragon's lair, and reclaim their harps and gold.
"As they sang the hobbit felt the love of
beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce
and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up
inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and
the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a
walking-stick."
Although
Bilbo immediately has a change of heart, ultimately his Took heritage overpowered him
and he could not reject adventure.
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