Sticks and Stones

or decades, Bilbo had thought only a few people his family - mostly his Took cousins, and only handful of his Baggins relatives, since they tended to look at him funny, given his parentage. But those 13 dwarves wormed their way into his heart during the months of the journey to Erebor with what their characters showed. And yet, they still shattered his heart on that fateful day.