The Hobbit: What Is A Furrier, And Why Is It So Insulting To Beorn The Bear-Man?
The Hobbit has a host of wonderful creatures and beings who blend in beautifully with the nature around them, and seek to preserve and protect the forests and their creatures from the evil Necromancer. One such being is of course Radagast the Brown, who is shown to be the friends of the hedgehogs and the flora around his houses, as he rides around on a sled pulled by Rustabell Rabbits, the fastest in the world, and tries to save his friends from the large spiders who crawl over his house out of Mirkwood.
But arguably a creature who is arguably even more invested in nature and the wellbeing of the animals is Beorn, the Bear man, and that is because he is able to walk among them. When Bilbo and the other dwarves on the quest for Erebor are in dire straights, having just had a run in with the Goblins under the mountains, and then been chased up tall pine trees by a pack of wolves, before luckily being rescued by the giant eagles nearby, they are in desperate need of shelter and refuge.
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Gandalf decides therefore to lead them in the direction of the home of Beorn, though he is at first very cautious in doing this, because the large man is quick to anger, is not fond of guests, and has a particular dislike of dwarves, because of their greed. Although the company must approach him two at a time, and gently draw him into hosting the massive company, the audience soon learns that he only seems gruff on the exterior because he is the last of his kind. He is lonely, and has obviously suffered tragedies in his past that the dwarves and the hobbit can only guess at.
Even so, Bilbo Baggins is a particularly quaint and homely sort of hobbit, who has lived away from Men, experienced very
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