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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Bilbo cheated?
How about we drop the 'cheating' question as it's getting nowhere (it looks like we're all covering and re-covering the same ground) and move onto something new, like JRRT's treatment of Bilbo in the LotR.
I do agree, Bilbo is a bit boring in the LotR, but then, you do have Frodo to make up for it. And in a way, Bilbo was simply going back to his hobbit-ness and retiring in comfort. He may have been an adventurer, but that doesn't stop him from being a hobbit.
(BTW: in the original drafts of the LotR, it was Bilbo who was to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom, but then Tolkien must have decided he (Bilbo) was getting to be too old to do such things, and introduced Frodo.)
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