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It "was good" that Bilbo lost his matches because the flicker of light and odor of sulphur (that a match would have produced) could have attracted potential dangers in the darkness, like Orcs or other creatures. Tolkien plainly states this in the same paragraph.
Because if he had had his matches, he would have been able to light a pipe, and that would have attracted much unwanted attention in the dark. And it might have allowed the goblins to find him as well. The light and the smell of the tobacco would have brought them out of their hiding places.
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In The Hobbit what besides spoons did Bilbo lose?
Bilbo put a letter on the spoons to Angelica so they were for her
