Bilbo Baggins (Peter Jackson)/Synopsis

The story of Bilbo Baggins from Peter Jackson's Middle-earth film saga.
==The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey==
The late Ian Holm reprised his role to portray Bilbo Baggins, while his younger self is portrayed by Martin Freeman.
Bilbo is first seen in the movie writing down his journey in the Red Book of Westermarch. In the present-day timeline, his nephew Frodo sees him working and attempts to read the book, but Bilbo does not let him look at it. He begins to hide things around the house and acknowledges Frodo goodbye when he goes to go meet Gandalf at East Farthing Woods.
The flashback begins when Bilbo was 50 years old, approached by Gandalf, who is an old family friend of both Bilbo's parents' sides of his family. However, after Gandalf offers for Bilbo to take up a chance at an adventure, the hobbit refuses and retreats back into his house.
While traveling to a market located near the Green Dragon, Baggins believes the wizard to be stalking him and what he thought was Gandalf's hat was really hobbits carrying a sack.
Later that evening, he met the four dwarves, Dwalin, Balin, Fíli and Kíli. After a while, Bilbo loses his patience at the fifth bell and finds at least nine more dwarves at the door. None of the dwarves treat his possessions none too kindly, as most of them use them for throwing it around. Bilbo is then introduced to their leader, Thorin Oakenshield, who has an unexplained contempt over their newly found member. When they bring up the fact of a burglar position for the Hobbit, Bilbo initially refuses, even after Gandalf tries to convince him otherwise. The next morning, Bilbo finds the dwarves gone. Having made up his mind, Bilbo decides to go on an adventure after hearing the dwarves sing their song from the night before.
On their first night of the quest to reclaim Erebor, Bilbo goes to pamper his pony, which he had affectionately named "Myrtle". After he heard a shriek from a long distance, Fíli and Kíli take this opportunity to scare him before Thorin puts an end to it. Balin comes to the three boys and explains to them Thorin's hatred of Orcs. This possibly causes Bilbo to see Thorin as more than a stern prince, but one who is a benevolent leader and meant to be King. 
Sometime later, the Company moves on. Bilbo and his companions were covered by rain. After Gandalf tells Dori to find another wizard to change the weather of the world, Bilbo inquires of the other four. One he takes particular interest in was Radagast, and asked Gandalf if Radagast is a great wizard or more like the grey wizard himself.
Later that day, Gandalf and Thorin have a massive argument leaving the dwarves and Bilbo to fend for themselves. Bilbo is later sent by Bofur to give Fíli and Kíli their portion of dinner. However, the dwarves had misplaced three of their 16 ponies. They send Bilbo to try to free the poor creatures while they leave him behind and go to retrieve the company. Bilbo doesn't make it in time to avoid the Trolls. Before they torture the poor hobbit, Kíli and the others rescue Bilbo. During the skirmish, Bilbo goes to release the ponies, before he and the other dwarves are captured by the trolls, who are ready to eat them. However, Bilbo manages to keep them at bay until dawn, when the first rays of the sun turn them into stone.
Later, Gandalf emerges from the Troll's cave and presents Bilbo with a sword, which would later glow blue when either Orcs or Goblins came closer. As Bilbo unsheathed his sword, Radagast appears and talks to Gandalf. When they are chased by a pack of Wargs in Azog's service, the dwarves subdue their attackers and realize they are being followed. With assistance from Radagast, Bilbo and his companions make their escape. However, they are soon chased by the Wargs and Orcs, before they go through a hidden entrance. Before he takes another step, Bilbo stops to tell Gandalf that he feels a magical presence, to which the wizard responds to it being a "very powerful magic". They eventually emerge out of the cave and into Rivendell. 
When Bilbo first sees Rivendell, Bilbo immediately falls in love with the city, as well as the Elves who live there. Just at that moment, when Elrond appears, Bofur safely pulls Bilbo to the center of the circle. During their feast, Bilbo overhears the Lord of Rivendell talking of Thorin's and Gandalf's weapons. However, Balin advises against it, as it is not a proper weapon. He is present at the meeting in Rivendell, along with his companions Thorin, Balin, Gandalf, and Lord Elrond himself. Bilbo is amazed at the moon runes and inquires of Durin's Day and what they will have time for.
Over the next couple of days, the company stayed in Rivendell, with Bilbo admiring its beauty. Elrond approached Bilbo and allowed him to stay in Rivendell if that was what he wished. On the night before the Company leaves for the Misty Mountains, Bilbo continues to adventure in Rivendell, but overhears a conversation between Elrond and Gandalf, with Thorin present behind Bilbo's back. They depart for the mountains afterward, where they are caught up in a stone-giant battle scene. Bilbo nearly fell off the cliff twice before Bofur and Dwalin pushed him back. When the mountains collide together, while his companions remain unharmed, Bilbo hangs on for dear life before Thorin saves him. Because Bilbo almost puts both him and Thorin at risk, the dwarf king denounces Bilbo before the rest of the company. Hurt, Bilbo tries to go back to the Shire, but Bofur persuades him to stay. Moments later, however, they are all taken prisoner by Orcs. Gandalf saves them, but Bilbo is knocked down into a deep, dark cave.
In the cave, Bilbo encounters a slimy, murderous creature named Gollum who drops the Ring on the ground after killing an Orc. Bilbo picks up the Ring and puts it in his pocket, and asks Gollum to show him the way out of the cave. Gollum challenges Bilbo to a game of riddles, promising to show him the way out if he loses; if he wins, however, he will eat Bilbo. Bilbo wins the contest, but Gollum goes to get the Ring so he can attack and kill Bilbo. Upon finding his "precious" missing, Gollum realizes the answer to Bilbo's last riddle - "What have I got in my pocket?" - and attacks him. Bilbo puts on the Ring seconds before Gollum attacks him, and realizes that it has made him invisible when Gollum walks right past him. He prepares to kill Gollum but is overcome with pity for the wretched creature and spares his life. Bilbo then escapes Gollum's cave and finds his way back to the dwarves.
Their reunion is short-lived, however, as Azog's hunting party attacks them. On the final stand, Thorin charges at Azog and is nearly killed by his would-be executioner before Bilbo jumps from the burning tree and kills Thorin's almost-killer while defending the dwarf king's broken body. Just before the orcs attack them, the eagles arrive and save the company from Azog's men. Seeing the Hobbit in a new light, Thorin embraces Bilbo as a friend and apologizes for his previous ill-treatment of the Hobbit. The group looks into the horizon and spots the lonely mountain, unaware of what the future has in store for them.
==The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug==
Bilbo is sent by Thorin and company to spy on Azog. While not being spotted, he sees Beorn standing there, watching the Wargs and the Orcs as well. Bilbo goes to warn the dwarves of their enemies' recent movement, but every time he does, he is either interrupted by a dwarf or a wizard. When Bilbo tells Thorin and the others that there is something else out there, which Gandalf guesses is in the form of a bear, shocking both Bilbo and the other dwarves. The company is forced to take refuge with a man named Beorn, who was the bear Bilbo saw a few seconds before. Gandalf tells them that this man will either help them or destroy them. The team reluctantly agrees, but they are tracked down by Azog and chased to Beorn's house.
During the night, Bilbo takes out the Ring, swearing he could hear it whisper while inspecting it. The next morning, Bilbo and his friends meet Beorn, but one by one, starting with him and Gandalf while slowly introducing their companions. Learning of their ordeals, Beorn decides to aid Bilbo and his friends by giving them ponies. However, when the company reaches Mirkwood, Bilbo is shocked to learn that Gandalf is leaving them yet again, but the wizard reveals he has no choice. Before Gandalf departs, he says that Bilbo is not the same Hobbit as the one who left the Shire. Bilbo attempts to tell Gandalf about the Ring but he decides against it and claims that he found his courage, which appears to satisfy Gandalf, who secretly knows Bilbo has the Ring with him. He leaves the company at the gates of Mirkwood and warns them not to touch the water and not to stray clear of the path, stay on it at all times.
After days of traveling, the woods' dangerous spell begins to slowly take effect on Bilbo and his companions. During one of their obstacles, they find they cannot cross the enchanted river, which Bilbo is forced to cross alone. While they are in Mirkwood, Bilbo and Thorin spot a white stag but Thorin shoots the creatures as Bilbo watches it. After Thorin gets the company lost, Bilbo hears a whisper in the trees when he plucks the giant spider webs that hang from the trees.
Bilbo goes up to look ahead to see that they are getting closer to the Lonely Mountain, but Bilbo finds them to be gone before he is taken away by a giant Spider. However, Bilbo manages to escape and free the dwarves from the spider's nest. Bilbo proceeded to join them but was attacked by a spider, and dropped down to the forest floor where the Ring took hold of Bilbo, who began brutally murdering a baby spider thinking it was getting the ring. However, he sees the error of his ways before going to rescue his friends, only for the company gets captured again this time by the Elves led by Thranduil. Bilbo helps the others escape from the Elves by snuggling them out of Lake-town in barrels.
The day that the company reaches their goal, Bilbo finds the secret door and enters the mountain to find the Arkenstone, advised by Balin not to wake the dragon up. However, Bilbo accidentally wakes it up and engaged in a cat/mouse dialogue with Smaug while chasing after the stone. The dragon notices Bilbo's intentions and threatens to let him take it to see it make Thorin mad, causing Bilbo to take the stone for safekeeping. He helps participate in attracting Smaug to the Erebor Forges. At the very end, Bilbo watches with horror as Smaug flies toward Lake-town, intent on destroying it.
==The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies==
Along with his nine companions, Bilbo watches the destruction of Lake-town from afar. He sees Bard the Bowman kill Smaug, announces it to the others, who rejoice. By now, however, Thorin has gone mad with power and greed and refuses to share the treasure. He once confronted Thorin one night to convince him to do something other than hunt the treasury room all day, but Thorin doesn't listen to Bilbo.
When the four dwarf companions who stayed in Lake-town were found, Bilbo quickly ran up to the four who were coming. When one of them sees him alive, Bilbo warns that all of them need to leave. When Bofur reasons that they had just got there, Bilbo tells them how Thorin has been misbehaving, spending his days in the treasure room and not bothering to get a nibble or a wink of sleep. Kíli asks what kind of sickness has possessed his uncle while his brother, Fíli runs past them to the treasure room with Bilbo, Bofur, Óin, and Kíli following Fíli down to the treasure room. While the dwarves look at it in awe, Bilbo feels nothing but contempt and disgust for the gold and is scared for what Thorin has become.
Bilbo later sits alone in a secluded area, where it is revealed in a flashback that Bilbo stole the Arkenstone shortly after he disappeared when putting the Ring on. After seeing what danger Thorin has been in, Bilbo pulls the Arkenstone out of his pocket, contemplating on what to do with it. The gold sickness gets worse. Thorin begins sulking in the Throne room hour after hour, waiting for the Stone's return. Little does he know Bilbo still is in possession of the Arkenstone. Bilbo grows even more concerned after the fact that Thorin will kill whoever withholds the king's jewel from him. He later comes across a crying Balin, who voices his concerns. Bilbo asks if finding the Stone will help Thorin, Balin points out that finding the Arkenstone will only make Thorin worse and that it's best if it remains lost, and sending signals he knows Bilbo has the stone. Because Thorin is unaware of the Orcs that are going to attack from the north, and Thranduil refuses to dispatch the forces to Ravenhill, Bilbo instead volunteers to go there and warn him, but Gandalf will not allow Bilbo to complete it. Despite everything they have been through, Bilbo still cares for his friends and tells him he doesn't care if the wizard allows it or not. Bilbo then takes the ring and runs to Ravenhill.
Bilbo tries to warn Thorin of the invading Orcs led by Bolg but is too late. Azog kills Fíli in front of him, Thorin, Dwalin, and Kíli. He stays behind where he is attacked by Bolg and his mercenaries, as well as several bats. Before more are able to kill him, Dwalin comes to Bilbo's rescue. As he fights off the other Orcs, Bolg hits Bilbo with the handle of his mace, and he passes out. Sometime after the Battle in Ravenhill ends, Bilbo wakes up to find the Eagles are flying over him and that the battle is won. Overlooking the valley, he sees Azog has been killed, but Thorin has been mortally wounded. Bilbo goes by his side, where Thorin spends his last moments with Bilbo, asking for the Hobbit's forgiveness.
Bilbo also comes to their funeral to pay his respects to his fallen friends. When he comes across Thorin's body, he breaks down crying. Bilbo is also one of the others who show their respect to the new King under the Mountain.
Later, Bilbo returns home to see his hated cousins, the Sackville-Bagginses, selling his possession, but Bilbo shoos them away. He pulls out the Ring one last time and examines it with a troubled look on his face. Flash-forward sixty years later, an older Bilbo has finished writing the story (and also telling the said story to Frodo), when a knock is at the door. Though Bilbo tells the stranger to go away, he immediately perks up when it is actually Gandalf and goes out to greet him.
==The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring==
Bilbo leaves the One Ring for Frodo and is reunited with him in Rivendell. Before his quest to destroy the One Ring, he gives Frodo a Mithril shirt he once wore and his sword, Sting.
When he sees the One Ring, he briefly turns into a creature and nearly attacks Frodo. A guilt-ridden Bilbo then breaks down crying and apologizes for leaving this heavy burden on Frodo.
==The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King==
At the harbor, he asks Frodo if he can hold his ring one last time, but Frodo lied and said that he lost it, as Bilbo had forgotten about Frodo's quest to destroy it. Bilbo departs from Middle-earth with Frodo, Gandalf, Galadriel, Elrond, and Celeborn to the Undying Lands.
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