Personal Responce Paper help topics for the Hobbit!?!?

I think your ideas are great, but another idea would be to focus on the dwarves. Everyone focuses on bilbo and Smaug and the Treasure because they are the main focal points of the book. Think about the dwarves. How they long for their home in Lonely Mountian. The struggles they faced in loosing it and the fight to get back what they loved.

Don't get me wrong, I love Bilbo, that's what I named my dog! But that's the thing, everyone loves Bilbo. I am sure the teacher reading all the papers would like to read something unique in a stack full of papers about Bilbo.

I think either would be good. You could incorporate some of your thoughts about why you like Bilbo with how you enjoy imagining a world of fun things like dragons and treasures.

You hit on a pretty big theme with Bilbo as everyman becoming a hero -- it is a really important aspect of the novel.

My suggestion would be to discuss how you enjoyed the novel -- and how Bilbo's character being a "plain" hobbit allowed you to imagine yourself in his shoes -- or enjoy it as something that could be attainable....