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You might think it is Bilbo (because it's his POV), but doesn't he play a rather minor role in the task to reclaim the mountain?

Isn't Thorin the one who is the causer of effects, who makes decisions, who faces a transformation of character at the end and then kills the enemy?

But on the other hand, don't you end up rooting for Bilbo?

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Because Bilbo goes through the greatest degree of change, from reluctant adventurer to tricking Gollum into showing him the way out of the goblin caves, to saving the party, twice, to stealing the Arkenstone that led directly to the death of Smaug, he is the protagonist of the story.

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