[JenB]

Oh well, thanks. Oh dear, poor Bilbo's just flipped out over the Ring. Dear old hobbit... he seems like a childhood friend to me. It's so hard to look at him, old, and remember the times he saved the Dwarves or fought Goblins, or even the time he found the Ring. Nobody - not even Tolkien! - knew what an event that was!

[2Jedismom]

I know! To see Bilbo so hale at the beginning of the movie was just what I expected. Bilbo the way I always imagined him. But to see him old and tottering around, well, I knew it happened but it was still quite a blow.