Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring Bilbo Baggins called it a party, but it was really a variety of entertainments rolled into one. Practically everybody living near was invited A very few were overlooked by accident, but as they turned up all the same, that did not matter. Many people from other parts of the Shire were also asked; and there were even a few from outside the borders. Bilbo met the guests (and additions) at the new white gate in person.He gave away presents to all and sundry-the latter were those who went out again by a back way and came in again by the gate How is Bilbo Baggins characterized in this excerpt? as mysterious as welcoming as s frugal