How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from the director's cut of The Fellowship of the Ring.
Quote #1
FRODO: Before you came along we Bagginses were very well thought of.
GANDALF: Indeed?
FRODO: We never had any adventures, or did anything unexpected.
GANDALF: If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.
FRODO: Whatever you did, you've been officially labeled as a "disturber of the peace."
So Bilbo goes out in one of the most epic adventures in recent history (and probably the most epic in all of hobbit history) and that's somehow thought poorly of? Well, that's the life of a hobbit: the Shire is good and anything outside is bad.
Quote #2
SAM: This is it.
FRODO: This is what?
SAM: If I take one more step, it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been.
FRODO: Come on Sam. Remember what Bilbo used to say. It's a dangerous business—
BILBO [voice over]:—going out your door. You step onto the road and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Hobbits are not the most adventurous creatures, so Sam's traveling all the way to Bree, even if it's just a neighboring town, is a big adventure. But Bilbo's quote is reassuring in a way. If even stepping outside of your door can be dangerous, then everything is in doubt and our choice is either to hide in fear or go to the market and deal with the possibility we could be slaying giant spiders and taking Morgul-blades to the chest by nightfall.
Quote #3
[When the hobbits get to Bree, it is a dark, rainy night. The streets are muddy and full of commotion. Inside the Prancing Pony, the innkeeper towers over the hobbits and the other men look at them as outsiders.]
Bree is a pretty terrifying place, and that's saying a lot coming from a forest filled with Nazgûl. But if we stop think about it, Bree is just a small, rural village. It's probably quite quaint, if a bit dirty. But it's all about perspective. To the hobbits (and to us, their vicarious viewers) Bree is a big, foreign, scary place.