Bilbo hade bara betraktats som ovanligt 1 efter sitt äventyr
1 Ordet " ovanligt " (eller annorlunda) ersätts nedan med den ursprungliga " Queer " som används av Tolkien.
It is true that for ever after he remained an elf-friend, and had the honour of dwarves, wizards, and all such folk as ever passed that way; but he was no longer quite respectable. He was in fact held by all the hobbits of the neighbourhood to be ‘queer’—except by his nephews and nieces on the Took side, but even they were not encouraged in their friendship by their elders.
The Hobbit: Chapter 19, The Last Stage
Efter att ha återvänt från sitt äventyr hade hans grannar börjat betrakta honom queer och han hade förlorat respekt i samhället. Även om några brorsdotter och nischer verkar njuta av det, även om det blev avskräckt.
Vi måste emellertid notera att Bilbo alltid haft oroliga aspekter på honom. Efter att ha tagit upp några av Tooks familjeegenskaper, en familj som är känd för sina äventyr (och har också en medlem tillräckligt hög för att kunna åka en häst och uppfinna golf!). Hans " queerness " hade emellertid inte märkts av andra förutom Gandalf (som nämnts i Unfinished Tales ) eftersom han aldrig hade möjlighet att uttrycka sig.
It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. They discreetly disappeared, and the family hushed it up...
... Not that Belladonna Took ever had any adventures after she became Mrs. Bungo Baggins. Bungo, that was Bilbo’s father, built the most luxurious hobbit-hole for her (and partly with her money) that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water, and there they remained to the end of their days. Still it is probable that Bilbo, her only son, although he looked and behaved exactly like a second edition of his solid and comfortable father, got something a bit queer in his make-up from the Took side, something that only waited for a chance to come out. The chance never arrived, until Bilbo Baggins was grown up, being about fifty years old or so.
The Hobbit: Chapter 1, An Unexpected Party
Som nämnts av @ User001 Belladonna Took var verkligen en äventyrlig person i sin ungdom. Har varit en del av " tre anmärkningsvärda döttrar " av den gamla tagen
“ As I was saying, the mother of this hobbit—of Bilbo Baggins, that is—was the famous Belladonna Took, one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took
The Hobbit: Chapter 1, An Unexpected Party
Det är uppenbart att berömda Belladonna hade orsakat Bilbo (och eventuellt Frodo) att anta en del av hennes äventyrsliga ande.