but-the-library-of-alexandria:

the fellowship of the ring is such a dnd party. it’s just like a bunch of 13-year-olds all wanting to be different races and varying degrees of royalty and the DM somehow having to figure out how they all met to work together

by contrast, the company in the hobbit are a situation when a DM was stuck with a 14-player party and said ‘fuck this, you’re all dwarves’ apart from bilbo who said ‘fuck THAT make me a halfling’