- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Near the end of his adventures with the dwarves, Bilbo has a sudden change of heart. After hundreds of pages, during which he's come to truly enjoy the daredevil thrills of adventure, Bilbo decides that he's had enough of danger and violence. Bilbo has heard from books and songsthat war is a noble thing, but up-close, he finds that it's anything but. (In real life, Tolkien fought in some of the bloodiest battles of World War I, and critics have often interpreted this passage as Tolkien's gloss on his own experiences as a soldier.)
In a broader sense, the passage…