The movie and the book start out with a younger Bilbo Baggins (an agnostic?) trying to live a quiet, pleasant and respectable life in the Shire. And then Gandalf (God?) comes along and invites him to join him on an adventure. Bilbo tries to end the conversation quickly, saying "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!".
But Gandalf seems to think otherwise and sends the company of dwarves to join Bilbo at his house, uninvited, for dinner. Hmmm... I wonder if the dwarves could be an analogy for the church sometimes?
During the course of the meal, Bilbo is given the contract (Bible, catechisms, creeds, church history...?) where he learns that he could even be killed in a number of gruesome ways on this adventure and thereupon passes out. But he ends up deciding to go and runs out of his house without his pocket handkerchiefs to catch up with Thorin and company who have already started on the journey, little realizing what he is getting himself into.
All for now.
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