At the Unexpected Party, when gandalf introduced the 13 dwarves to Bilbo.
The dwarves are Bilbo's friends for most of the Hobbit.
The Dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf were trapped in the goblin town. Read the book!
They all look different They have different colored hoods.
They felt that he had been nothing but a bother and wondered why they had brought him along. Gandalf was ready to abandon the Dwarves to go and find him.
If Gandalf and the dwarves did not show up to rescue him, Bilbo Baggins had a plan to make his way through the tunnels to locate them. However, he is saved from that undertaking when he hears the dwarves and Gandalf talking.
Yes, the wizard(Gandalf) likes Bilbo very much. It is by the will of Gandalf that Bilbo comes along with the dwarves for the quest. His concern for Bilbo can be seen when all the dwarves come out from goblin's cave but Bilbo remains behind. Gandalf continues to visit Bilbo even after the end of dwarves quest.
At the Unexpected Party, when gandalf introduced the 13 dwarves to Bilbo.
The dwarves are Bilbo's friends for most of the Hobbit.
The book starts with Bilbo Baggins meeting Gandalf the Grey. There was a tea party that Gandalf arranged, pulling in 13 dwarves with him.
Bilbo, Thorin, Smaug, Gandalf, Precious, the dwarves
With Gandalf and the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield, and his company of twelve further dwarves.
The Dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf were trapped in the goblin town. Read the book!
After he breaks them out of the wood elves prison ....Thorin finally admits that Gandalf was correct, and tells Bilbo he IS what Gandalf said he would be.
I think Gandalf came to Bilbo to either get a 14 man. (Another reply) Gandalf was helping the dwarves, and he believed that Bilbo could help. However, his help to the dwarves was secondary to his main mission: to get information about Sauron. Sauron is mentioned in the Hobbit, as the Necromancer; in the Lord of the Rings, Gandalf confirms that the "Necromancer" was no other than the old enemy, Sauron.
Gandalf is technically the first visitor. But the first Dwarf to knock on his door before 'the Unexpected Party' was Dwalin.
If it is in the Hobbit, it is to get Bilbo started on his adventure. If it is in the Fellowship of the Ring it is to have the ring returned to the mountain to be destroyed.