The Hobbit - Is Bilbo the First One?

The Hobbits in their little circumscribed and safe domain, that's order. The perimeter of the Shire is patrolled by the descendants of Great Kings,. Aragorn is one of them. And they protect the Hobbits, who are these decent sort of bourgeois people with no idea what the hell's going on outside their borders. They're so damn naive, they don't know that you need ancestral figures to protect your borders.