Also, people aren’t looking for him to Solve The World’s Problems. He gets to have some fun while he’s there and eat great food. I think that’s why Gandalf likes coming to the Shire. He’s some guy with a funny hat who blows things up for fun. Not as Mithrandir, the Grey Pilgrim, or Olorin (an angel-like figure) from the First Age. Then off he goes to party with a bunch of hobbits.Īnd might I add that, to the inhabitants of the Shire, Gandalf is this weird old man who drops in for visits and sometimes puts on these amazing fireworks displays. And can I say how happy it makes me to think of Gandalf blowing off whatever responsibilities he had to put together fireworks and head off to the Shire? I can just see him in a meeting of the White Council, “My apologies, Lord Elrond and Lady Galadriel, but I must be going. He’s brought fantastic toys from Dale and fireworks like the Shire hasn’t seen since the Old Took passed on more than a century earlier. He’s 33 at last and is coming into his inheritance, much to the dismay of Otho and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, his despised, uppity relatives. Bilbo is turning 111, and Frodo has finally reached his majority. September 22nd marks Bilbo and Frodo’s shared birthday. This is how Tolkien passed the story on from Bilbo to Frodo and it’s one of the most important acts in the whole of the Third Age of Middle-earth. And while all Hobbiton believes it’s so Bilbo can throw himself a big birthday bash, he is really trying to give a bunch of stuff away in the hopes that it will make giving his old ring away easier. Thus begins The Lord of the Rings: with a party like in The Hobbit, only this party was a long-planned one, not the unexpected one that left Bilbo confusticated about thirteen dwarves raiding his pantry. Happy birthday, Bilbo and Frodo! Chapter One: A Long-Expected Party
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