The Hobbit

What role does "respectability" play in the narrators assessment of Bilbo

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Bilbo is a respectable Hobbit. Hobbits are very concerned with honour and respectability. Bilbo's reputation reflects on Gandalf and the rest of the group. It gives their quest a certain amount of legitimacy and honour that is needed to earn the reader's sympathy.