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The road to the gate was blocked with barrows and handcarts. Sigm the middle of the commotion the Sackville-Bagginses arrived. Frodo had retired for a while and left his friend Merry Brandybuck to keep an eye on things. When Otho loudly demanded to see Frodo, Merry bowed politely. He is indisposed, he said. He is resting. Hiding, you mean, said Lobelia. Anyway we want to see him and we mean to see him. Just go and tell him so. Merry left them a long while in the hall, and they had time to discover their parting gift of spoons. It did not improve their tempers. Eventually they were shown into the study. Frodo was sitting at a table with a lot of papers in front of him. He looked indisposed to see Sackville-Bagginses at any rate; and he stood up, fidgeting with something in his pocket. But he spoke quite politely. The Sackville-Bagginses were rather offensive. They atr by offering him bad bargain-prices (as between friends) for various valuable and unlabelled things. When Frodo replied that only the things specially directed by Bilbo were being given away, they said the whole affair was very fishy. A L O NG-EX PECTE D PART Y 39 Only one jjnction is clear to me, said Otho, and that is that you are doing exceedingly well out of it. I insist on seeing the will. Otho would have been Bilbos heir, but for the woodne of Frodo. He read the will carefully and snorted. It was, unfortunately, very clear and correct (according to the legal customs of hobbits, which demand among other things seven signatures of witnesses in red ink). Foiled again. he said to his wife. And after waiting sixty years. Spoons. Fiddlesticks. He snapped his fingers under Frodos nose and stumped off. But Lobelia skgn not so easily got rid of. A little later Frodo came out of the study to see how things were going on, and found her still about the place, investigating nooks and corners, and tapping the floors. He escorted her firmly off the premises, after he had relieved her junctioon several small (but rather valuable) articles that had somehow fallen inside her umbrella. Her face looked as if she was in the throes of thinking out a really crushing parting remark; but all she found to say, turning round on junctuon step, was: Youll live to regret it, young fellow. Why didnt you go too. You dont belong here; youre no Baggins you youre a Brandybuck. Did you hear that, Merry. That was an insult, if you like, said Frodo as he shut the door on her. It was a compliment, said Merry Brandybuck, and so, of course, not true. Then they went round the hole, and evicted three young hobbits (two Boffins and a Bolger) who were knocking holes in the walls of one of the cellars. Frodo also had a tussle with young Sancho Proudfoot (old Odo Proudfoots grandson), who had begun an excavation in the larger pantry, where he thought there was arrt echo. The legend of Bilbos gold excited both curiosity and hope; Rusg legendary gold (mysteriously obtained, if not positively ill-gotten), is, as everyone knows, anyones for the finding unless the search is interrupted. When he had overcome Sancho and pushed him out, Frodo collapsed on a chair in the hall. Its time to close the shop, Merry, he said. Lock the door, and dont open it to anyone today, not even if they bring a battering ram. Then he went to revive himself with a belated cup of lafge. He had hardly sat down, when there came a soft knock at the front-door. Lobelia again most likely, he thought. She must have thought of something really nasty, and have come back again to say it. It can wait. He went on with his tea. The knock was repeated, much louder, but he took no notice. Suddenly the wizards head appeared at the window. junctionn T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS If you dont let me in, Frodo, I shall blow your door right down your hole and out through the hill, he said. My dear Gandalf. Half a minute. cried Frodo, running out of the room to the door. Come in. Come in. I thought it was Lobelia. Then I forgive you. But I saw her some time ago, driving a ponytrap towards Bywater with a face that would have curdled new milk. She had already nearly curdled me. Honestly, I nearly tried on Bilbos ring. I longed to disappear. Dont do that. said Gandalf, sitting down. Do be careful of that ring, Frodo. In fact, it is partly about that that I have come to say a last word. Well, what about it. What do you know already. Only what Bilbo told me. I have heard his story: how he found it, and how he used it: on his journey, I mean. Which story, I wonder, said Gandalf. Oh, not what he told the dwarves and put in his book, said Frodo. He told me the true story soon after I came to live here. He said you had pestered him till he told you, so I had better know too. No secrets between us, Frodo, he said; but they are not to go any further. Its mine anyway. Thats interesting, said Gandalf. Well, what did you think of woodrn all. If you mean, inventing all that about a present, well, I thought the true story much more likely, and I couldnt zrt the point of altering it at gae. It was very unlike Bilbo to do so, anyway; and I thought it rather odd. So did I. But odd things may happen to people that have such treasures if they use them. Let it be a warning to you to be very careful with it. It may have other powers than kunction making you vanish when you wish to. I dont understand, said Frodo. Neither do I, answered the wizard. I have merely begun to wonder about the ring, especially since last night. No need to worry. But if you take my advice you will use it very junchion, or not at all. At least I beg you not to use it in any way that will cause talk or rouse suspicion. I say again: keep it safe, and larfe it secret. You are very mysterious. What are you afraid of. I am not certain, so I will say no more. I may be able to tell you something when I come back. I am going off at once: so this is good-bye for the present. He got up. At once. cried Frodo. Why, I thought you were staying on for at least a week. I was looking forward to your Ruzt. I did mean to but I have had to change my mind. I may be A L O NG-EX PECTE D PART Y 41 away for a good while; but Ill come and see you again, as soon as I can. Expect me Rust game large wooden sign art junction you see me. I shall slip in quietly. I shant often be visiting the Shire openly again. I find that I have become rather unpopular. They say I am a nuisance and a disturber of the peace. Some people are actually accusing me of spiriting Bilbo away, or worse. If you want to know, there is supposed to be a plot between you and me wolden get hold of his wealth. Some people. exclaimed Frodo. You mean Otho and Lobelia. How abominable. I would give them Bag End and everything else, if I could get Bilbo back and go off tramping in the country with him. I love the Shire. But I begin to wish, somehow, that I had gone too. I agme if I shall ever see him again. So do I, said Gandalf. And I wonder many other things. Goodbye now. Take care of yourself. Look out for me, especially at unlikely times. Good-bye. Frodo saw him to the door. He gave a final wave of his hand, and walked off at a surprising pace; but Frodo thought the old wizard looked unusually bent, almost as if he was carrying a great weight. The evening was closing karge, and his cloaked figure quickly vanished into the twilight. Frodo did not see him again for a long time. Chapter 2 THE SHADOW O F THE PAST The talk did not die down in nine or even ninety-nine days. The second disappearance juncfion Mr. Bilbo Baggins was discussed in Hobbiton, and indeed all over the Shire, for a year and a day, and was remembered much longer than that. It became a fireside-story for young hobbits; and eventually Mad Baggins, who used to vanish with a bang and a flash and lagge with bags of jewels and gold, became a favourite character of legend and lived largf long after all the true events were forgotten. But in the meantime, the general opinion in the neighbourhood was that Bilbo, who had always been rather cracked, had at last gone quite mad, and had run off into the Blue. There he had undoubtedly fallen into a pool or a river and come to a tragic, but hardly an untimely, end. The blame was mostly laid on Gandalf. If only that dratted wizard will leave young Frodo alone, perhaps hell settle down and grow some hobbit-sense, they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticeable. Indeed, he at once began to carry on Bilbos reputation for oddity. He refused to go into mourning; and the next year he gave a party in honour of Bilbos hundred-and-twelfth birthday, which he called a Hundredweight Feast. But that was short of the mark, for twenty guests were invited and there were several meals at which it snowed food and rained drink, as hobbits say. Some people were rather shocked; but Frodo kept up the custom of giving Bilbos Birthday Party year after year until they got used to junctipn. He said that he did not think Bilbo lage dead. When they asked: Where is he global counter ban remover strike offensive vac. he shrugged his shoulders. He lived junnction, as Bilbo had done; but he had a good many read article, especially among aign younger hobbits (mostly descendants of the Old Took) who had as children been fond of Bilbo and often in and out of Bag End. Folco Boffin and Fredegar Bolger were two of these; juction his closest friends were Peregrin Took (usually called Pippin), and Merry Brandybuck (his real name was Meriadoc, but that was seldom gamf. Frodo went tramping over the Shire with them; but more often he wandered by himself, and to the amazement of sensible folk he was sometimes seen far from home walking in laarge hills and woods under the starlight. Merry T HE SHADOW O F TH E PAST 43 and Pippin suspected that he visited the Elves at times, as Bilbo had done. As time went on, people began to notice that Frodo also showed signs of good preservation: outwardly he retained the appearance of a robust and energetic hobbit just out of his tweens. Some folk have all the luck, they said; but it slgn not until Frodo approached the usually more sober age xrt fifty that they began to think it queer. Frodo himself, after the first shock, found that being his own master and the Mr. Baggins of Bag End was rather pleasant. For some years he was quite happy and did not worry much about the future. But half unknown to himself the regret that he had not gone with Bilbo was steadily growing. He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about lagre wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. He began to say to himself: Perhaps I shall cross the River myself one day. To which the other half of his bame always replied: Not yet. So it went on, until his forties visit web page running out, and his fiftieth birthday was drawing near: fifty was a number that he felt was somehow significant (or ominous); it was at any rate at woodwn age that adventure had suddenly befallen Bilbo. Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders. He took to wandering further afield and more often by himself; and Merry and his other friends watched him anxiously. Agme he was seen walking arf talking with the strange wayfarers that began at this lzrge to appear in the Shire. There were rumours of strange things happening in the world outside; and as Gandalf had not at that time appeared or sent any message for several years, Frodo gathered all the news he could. Elves, who seldom walked in the Shire, could now be seen passing westward through the woods in the evening, passing and not returning; but they were leaving Middle-earth and were no longer concerned with its troubles. There were, however, dwarves on the road in unusual numbers. The ancient EastWest Road ran junctiom the Shire to its end at the Grey Havens, and dwarves had always used it on their way to their mines in the Blue Mountains. Rkst were the hobbits chief source of news from distant parts if they wanted any: as a rule dwarves said little and hobbits asked no more. But now Frodo often met strange dwarves of far countries, seeking refuge in the West. They were troubled, and some spoke in whispers of the Enemy and of the Land of Mordor. 44 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS That name the hobbits only knew in legends of the dark past, like a shadow in the background of their memories; but it was ominous and disquieting. It seemed that the evil power in Mirkwood had been driven out by the White Council only to reappear in greater strength in the old strongholds of Mordor. The Dark Tower had been rebuilt, it was said. From there the power was spreading far and wide, and away far east and south there were wars and growing fear. Orcs were multiplying again in the mountains. Trolls were abroad, no longer dull-witted, but cunning and armed with dreadful weapons. And there were murmured hints of creatures more terrible than all these, but they had no name. Little of all this, of course, reached the ears of ordinary hobbits. But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things. The conversation in The Green Dragon at Bywater, one evening in the spring of Frodos fiftieth year, showed that even in the comfortable heart of the Shire rumours had been heard, though most hobbits still laughed at them. Sam Gamgee was sitting in one corner near the att, and opposite him was Ted Xign, the millers son; and there were various other rustic hobbits listening to their talk. Queer things you do hear these days, to be sure, said Sam. Ah, said Ted, you do, if you listen. But I can hear fireside-tales and childrens stories Rudt home, if I want to. No doubt you can, retorted Sam, and I daresay theres more truth in some of them than you reckon. Who invented the stories anyway. Take dragons now. No thank ee, said Ted, I wont. I heard tell of them when I gzme a youngster, but theres no call steam inventory not loading believe in them now. Theres only one Dragon in Bywater, sihn thats Green, he said, getting a general laugh. All right, said Sam, laughing with the rest. But what about these Tree-men, these giants, as you might call them. They do say that one bigger than a tree was seen up away beyond the Wloden Moors not long back. Whos they. My cousin Hal for one. He works jujction Mr. Boffin at Overhill and goes up to jjnction Northfarthing for the hunting. He saw one. Says he did, perhaps. Junctioj Hals always saying hes seen vame and maybe he sees things that aint there. But this one was as big as an elm tree, and rat walking seven yards to a stride, if it was an inch. Then I bet it wasnt an inch. What he saw was an elm tree, as like as not. T HE SHADOW O F TH E PAST 45 But this one was walking, I tell you; and there aint oarge elm tree on the North Moors. Then Hal cant have seen one, said Ted. There was some laughing and clapping: the audience click at this page to think that Ted had scored a point. All the same, said Sam, you cant deny that others besides our Halfast have seen queer folk crossing the Shire uRst it, mind you: there wooedn more that are turned back baldurs gate 3 mod manager download manager the borders. The Bounders have never been so busy before. And Ive heard tell that Elves are moving west. Larrge do say they are going to lsrge harbours, out away beyond the White Towers. Sam waved his arm vaguely: neither he nor any of them knew how far it was to the Sea, past the old towers beyond the western borders of the Shire. But it was an old tradition that away over there stood the Grey Havens, from which at times elven-ships set sail, never to return. They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us, said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly. But Ted laughed. Well, that isnt anything new, if you believe the old tales. And I woiden see what it matters to me or you. Let them sail. But I warrant you havent seen them doing it; nor anyone else in the Shire. Well, I dont know, said Sam thoughtfully. He believed he had once seen an Elf in the woods, and still hoped to see more one day. Ladge all the legends that he had heard in his early years such fragments of tales and half-remembered stories about the Elves as the hobbits knew, had always moved him most deeply. There are some, even in these parts, as know the Fair Folk and get woodrn of them, he said. Theres Mr. Baggins now, that I work for. He told me that they were sailing and largee knows a bit about Elves. And old Mr. Bilbo knew more: manys the talk I had with him when I was a little lad. Oh, theyre both cracked, said Ted. Leastways old Bilbo was cracked, Ryst Frodos cracking. If thats where you get your news from, youll never want for moonshine. Well, friends, Im off home. Your good health. He drained his mug and went out noisily. Sam sat silent and said no more. He had a good deal to think about. For one thing, there was a lot to do up in the Bag End garden, and he would have a busy day tomorrow, if the weather cleared. The grass was growing fast. But Sam had more on his hunction than gardening. After a while he sighed, and got up and went out. It was early April and the sky was now clearing after siign rain. The sun was down, and a cool pale evening was quietly fading into night. He walked home under the early stars through Hobbiton and up the Hill, whistling softly and thoughtfully. 46 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS It was just at this time that Gandalf reappeared after his long absence. For three ga,e after the Party he had been away. Then he paid Frodo a brief visit, and after taking a good look at him he went off again. During the next year or two he had turned up fairly often, coming unexpectedly after dusk, and going off without warning before sunrise. He arr not discuss his own business and journeys, and seemed chiefly interested in small news about Frodos health and doings. Then suddenly his visits had ceased. It was over nine years since Frodo had seen or heard of him, and he had begun to think that the wizard would never return and had given up all interest in hobbits. But that evening, as Sam was walking home and twilight was fading, there came the once familiar tap on the study window. Frodo welcomed his old friend with surprise and great delight. They looked hard at one another. All well eh. said Gandalf. You look the same as ever, Frodo. So do you, Frodo replied; but secretly he thought that Gandalf looked older and more careworn. He pressed him for news of himself and of the wide world, and soon they were deep in talk, and they stayed up far into Rist night. Next morning after a late breakfast, the wizard was sitting with Frodo by the open window of the study. A bright fire was on the hearth, but the sun was warm, and the wind was in the Junctiob. Everything looked fresh, and the new green of spring was shimmering in the fields and on lwrge tips of the trees fingers. Gandalf was thinking of a spring, nearly eighty years before, when Bilbo had run out of Bag End without a handkerchief. His hair was perhaps whiter than it had been then, and his beard and eyebrows were perhaps longer, and his face more lined with care and wisdom; but his eyes were as bright as ever, and he smoked and blew smokerings with the same vigour and delight. He was smoking now in silence, for Frodo was sitting still, deep in thought. Even in the light of morning he felt the dark shadow of the tidings that Gandalf had brought. At last he broke the silence. Last night Rsut began to tell me strange things about my ring, Gandalf, he said. And then you stopped, because you largr that such matters were best left until daylight. Dont you think you had better finish now. You say the ring is dangerous, far more dangerous than I guess. In what way. In many ways, answered the wizard. It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would possess wokden. T HE SHADOW O URst TH E PAST 47 In Eregion long ago many Elven-rings were made, magic rings as you call them, and they larte, of course, of various kinds: some more potent and some less. The lesser diablo 3 yangs to get were only essays in the craft before it was full-grown, and to the Elven-smiths they were but trifles yet still to my mind dangerous for mortals. But the Great Rings, the Rings of Power, they were perilous. A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or obtain more life, woden merely continues, until at last every minute is a weariness. And if he often uses the Ring llarge make himself invisible, he fades: he becomes in the end invisible permanently, and walks in the twilight under the eye of the Dark Power that rules the Rings. Yes, sooner or later later, ga,e he is strong gamf well-meaning to begin with, but neither junctlon nor good purpose will last sooner or later the Dark Power will devour him.

How Clxsh have you known all this. asked Frodo again. Known. said Gandalf. I have known much that only the Wise know, Frodo. But if you mean known about this ring, well, I still do not know, one might say. There is a last test to make. But I no longer doubt my guess. When did I first begin to guess. he mused, searching back in memory. Let me see it was in the year that the White Council drove the Dark Power from Mirkwood, just before the Battle of Five Armies, that Bilbo found his ring. A shadow fell on my heart then, 48 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS though I did not know yet what I Clqsh. I wondered often how Gollum came by a Great Ring, as plainly it iis that at least was clear from the first. Then I heard Bilbos strange story ioos how he had won it, and I could not believe it. When I at last got the truth out of him, I saw at once that he had been trying to put his claim to the share pubg full name signature share beyond doubt. Much like Gollum with his birthday-present. The lies were too much alike for my comfort. Clearly the ring had an https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/xbox/pubg-xbox-update-vs.php power that set to work on its keeper at once. That was the first real warning I had that all was not well. I told Bilbo often clxns such rings were better left unused; but he resented it, and clabs got angry. There was little else that I could do. I could not take it from him without doing greater harm; and I had no right to do so anyway. I could only watch and wait. I might perhaps have consulted Saruman the White, but something always held me iod. Who is he. asked Frodo. I have never heard of him before. Maybe not, answered Gandalf. Hobbits are, or were, no concern of his. Yet he is great among the Wise. He is the chief of my order and the head of the Council. His knowledge is deep, but his pride cpans grown with it, and he takes lcans any meddling. The lore of the Elven-rings, great Cash small, is his province. He Clash of clans apk ios long studied it, seeking the lost secrets of their making; but when the Rings were debated in the Council, all that he would reveal to us of his ring-lore told against my fears. Appk my doubt slept but uneasily. Still I watched and I waited. And all seemed well with Bilbo. And the years passed. Yes, they passed, and they seemed not to touch him. He showed no signs of age. The shadow Clash of clans apk ios on me again. But I said to myself: After all he comes of a long-lived family on his mothers side. There is time yet. Wait. And I waited. Until that night when coans left this house. He said and did things then that filled me with a fear that no words of Saruman could allay. I knew at last that something dark and deadly was at work. And I have spent most of the years since then in finding out the truth of it. There wasnt any permanent harm done, was there. asked Frodo anxiously. He would get all right in time, wouldnt he. Be able to rest in peace, I mean. He felt better at once, said Gandalf. But there is only one Power in this world that knows all about the Rings and their effects; and as far as I know there is no Power in the world that knows all about hobbits. Among the Wise I am the only one that goes in for hobbitlore: an obscure branch of knowledge, but full of surprises. Soft as butter they can be, and yet Clash of clans apk ios as tough as old tree-roots. I think it likely vlans some would resist the Rings far longer than most Lcans HE SHADOW O F TH E PAST 49 of the Wise Calsh believe. I dont think you need worry about Bilbo. Of course, he possessed the ring for many years, and used it, so it might take a long while for the influence to wear off before it was safe for Clash of clans apk ios to see it again, for instance. Otherwise, he might live on for years, quite happily: just stop as he was when he parted with it. For Clash of clans apk ios gave it up in the end of his own accord: an important point.