Gandalf reappears in the Shire quite suddenly and is welcomed by Frodo to Bag End.(Translation: don't believe a word they say.) Ted replies, "If 's where you get your news from, you'll never want for moonshine" (1.2.29).Nine years after Gandalf's last visit to the Shire, at The Green Dragon inn, Samwise Gamgee is arguing with Ted Sandyman: Sam thinks that Bilbo really did fight a dragon, and that the Elves "are going to the harbors, out away beyond the White Towers" (1.2.25).Bottom line: things are starting to go sour in the world outside the Shire.On top of all this, Orcs are also growing more and more numerous, and they are carrying new, terrible weapons.As time goes on, Frodo finds increasing numbers of Dwarves using the ancient East-West Road to seek refuge in the West they carry news of an enemy who has been building up the old strongholds to the South in the evil land of Mordor.Time flies, and as Frodo approaches fifty, the rest of the neighborhood notices that he (like Bilbo) doesn't seem to be aging much.Frodo enjoys going on long walks by himself (he's a Virgo), and Merry and Pippin suspect that he sometimes visits with the Elves.
Most people think that Bilbo finally went crazy, ran off into the wild, and " into a pool or a river and to a tragic, but hardly untimely, end" (1.2.2).The Shire's gossip about Bilbo's disappearance lasts for months.
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