Tolkien's Unfinished Tales reveals a delightfully specific reason Bilbo made the cut: Smaug had never encountered a hobbit's scent, so Bilbo would register as nothing at all. An overlooked, almost comic trait became a strategic edge — proof that 'useless' differentiators can be decisive in the right context.
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