Is Bilbo A Hero

The first reason Bilbo is a hero is because he knows when to let something go and when to spare a life. Bilbo is very naive in the fact that he knows what is right from wrong in his heart and doesn’t let the other things happening around him affect it. “And he was miserable, alone, lost. A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering” (Tolkien 80). Bilbo could not bring himself to kill Gollum because he understood that he was a creature that got lost in the greed of the ring. He couldn’t change how he was now and was completely alone, with the exception of the ring which he loved beyond the price