Blame the wizard... he's the one that put the sign on Bilbo's door.  
The dwarves were just following his lead. 

> Heh.  One wonders why the dwarves chose a hobbit to be their thief, no?  A
> middle-class, well-to-do hobbit, a bunch of poor-but-noble-descended dwarves
> (at least Thorin was, but I thought the rest might have been, too)... hmm.  I
> feel a classist reading of Tolkien coming on.  
> 
               Albest,

                        Clayton

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