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Gandalf arrives in Hobbiton and questions the Gaffer

Event Type: General

Age: 3rd Age - Ring War

Date: September 29, 3018

Description:

Frodo reaches Bree at night. Gandalf visits the Gaffer.

The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, The Tale of Years: The Third Age

'[So] speedily [did Shadowfax bear] me that I reached the Shire when Frodo was on the Barrow-downs, though I set out from Rohan only when he set out from Hobbiton.

'But fear grew in me as I rode. Ever as I came north I heard tidings of the Black Riders, and though I gained on them day by day, they were ever before me. They had divided their forces, I learned: some remained on the eastern borders, not far from the Greenway. and some invaded the Shire from the south. I came to Hobbiton and Frodo had gone; but I had words with old Gamgee. Many words and few to the point. He had much to say about the shortcomings of the new owners of Bag End.

'"I can't abide changes," said he, "not at my time of life, and least of all changes for the worst." "Changes for the worst," he repeated many times.

'"Worst is a bad word," I said to him, "and I hope you do not live to see it." But amidst his talk I gathered at last that Frodo had left Hobbiton less than a week before, and that a black horseman had come to the Hill the same evening. Then I rode on in fear. I came to Buckland and found it in uproar....'

The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Book 2, Ch 2, The Council of Elrond

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Elena Tiriel 25Jan10

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