Independent Reading Prompt 8

After some research on J.R.R. Tolkien, I found out that he was not a fan of allegories or deeper meanings in his works. He was a writer whose main focus was just to tell a good story. Yet, after reading the book I was able to pick up on one underlying prevalent theme in "The Hobbit:" No matter how small or insignificant you seem or are made out to be, you can always do something great to be remembered. Tolkien conveyed this theme by picking Bilbo to be a mere hobbit rather than a dwarf, a man, or an elf. Smaller and weaker than almost every race of Middle Earth, Bilbo saved his friends many times and basically insured that the quest was successful. He did all this even though very few people believed in him. The dwarfs saw him as a burden at first, the other hobbits did not like his adventuring, and his foes did not take him seriously. Even Bilbo did not believe in himself at the start of the quest and only embarked on it because he was forced to by Gandalf. It was not until Bilbo was put in extreme circumstances before he realized his potential.