I love how you wrote this. I could imagine the scenes from the Hobbit movies as you described it. I thought Martin Freeman was a great Bilbo. Anyway, I had never thought about how the ring started corrupting Bilbo from the beginning. He as a Hobbit did also have a resistance to the ring that other characters did not but yes even in the beginning it started to speak to him. I need to get back into reading all of the books by Tolkien to further study this world. There are not enough hours in the day.