Bilbo's Contract

Bilbo's Contract was a legal document manufactured by Thorin and Company for the employment of Bilbo Baggins as their Burglar, to help facilitate the retrieval of the Arkenstone. It was signed by Thorin, witnessed by Balin and eventually signed by Bilbo himself.
== History ==
=== The Hobbit (film trilogy) ===
==== The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ====
Bilbo is handed the contract by Thorin. He is distressed at the mention of "funeral arrangements" and waiver of liability regarding "incineration", and faints. He later sees it resting on his desk in the morning, where he signs it and runs out his door, showing it to Balin.
=== The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies ===
Bilbotakes the Arkenstone as his fourteenth share. He re-quotes this to Thorin, which infuriates his former friend. 
Later, upon his return home where he finds his belonging ransacked in a public auction, he offers the contract to Tosser Grubb as proof that he is indeed Bilbo Baggins, clearly uncomfortable with the "Burglar" moniker. Mr. Grubb asks about the person to whom Bilbo, per the contract, pledged his services to. Bilbo says he was his friend.