Why did Gandalf decide that Bilbo should go with the Dwarves in the Hobbit? I remember hearing it's said somewhere, but I don't think i've seen it, must be in one of the Histories...
"Hobbits really are amazing creatures.
You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet, after a hundred years, they can still surprise you..."
I dunno any "specific" reason... the reason are hobbits themselves and what they are.
And Gandalf knows that very good, he is wise, he lived with hobbits for a long time.
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Bilbo was once Gandalf's favourite hobbit, but at fifty, Bilbo had become fat and lazy. Gandlaf seemed to act by intuition really, in sending Bilbo on the treasure hunt.
Gandalf's favourite hobbit clans are the Baggins' and the Tooks.
The Greenhands were descended from Holman the greenhanded, and Holman's namesake and grandson, Holman Greenhand, was at least the third of the line to tend the gardens of Hobbiton. Holman was the gardener at Bag End for Bilbo Baggins, and perhaps also for his father Bungo. In about the year III 2941, he took on his young relation Hamfast Gamgee as an apprentice. Hamfast eventually became the gardener at Bag End himself, and was followed by his son Samwise.
In a curious and unlikely way, Holman was instrumental in the winning of the War of the Ring. One morning in the spring of III 2941, Bag End was visited by the Wizard Gandalf. Bilbo was away from home for the Elves' New Year, so Gandalf struck up a conversation with Holman. It was Holman's description of his employer that encouraged Gandalf to include Bilbo in the journey to the Lonely Mountain, which in turn led to the finding of the One Ring, the means through which Sauron was ultimately defeated. If not for the part of Holman Greenhand, then, the western lands might well have fallen under the yoke of the Dark Lord.
My entire post about Holman was taken from Encyclopedia of Arda, because I remembered a conversation between him and Gandalf, without beeing sure of where it was from. A while later, I suddenly rembered.
So my answer, wich is neither late nor early, to your question is:
Unfinished Tales pg. 337.
I haven't read The Hobbit in a while......I forget.
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