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Everyone in The Hobbit spoke Westron. The Hobbits, the Dwarves, the Elves, the Istari, the Goblins, the Wargs, the Dragon, the thrush... Sometimes even common animals seems to understand it, When Bilbo find the Spiders and listens their words, he is wearing the Ring. I don't know if this is the power of the Ring, translating the Spider's language as it ...


In the Hobbit, the Trolls, Eagles, Orcs/Goblins, Dragon, some Ravens, and (maybe) the Spiders all spoke Common (Westron). The Wargs, Thrushes, and Crows did not speak Common, but understood Common. In the scene with the Wargs, Tolkien states that Gandalf understood the Warg's hideous language, and that was why he knew (and the reader knows) what they are ...
