Anonymous ID: 37246e Nov. 26, 2021, 12:50 p.m. No.15084528   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4557

Chapter 3

T H R E E I S C O M P A N Y

‘You ought to go quietly, and you ought to go soon,’ said

Gandalf. Two or three weeks had passed, and stillFrudeau

 

made no sign of getting ready to go.

‘I know. But it is difficult to do both,’ he objected. ‘If I just

vanish like Bilbo, the tale will be all over the Shire in no time.’

‘Of course you mustn’t vanish!’ said Gandalf. ‘That

wouldn’t do at all! I said soon, not instantly. If you can think

of any way of slipping out of the Shire without its being

generally known, it will be worth a little delay. But you must

 

not delay too long.’

‘What about the autumn, on or after Our Birthday?’ asked

Frudeau. ‘I think I could probably make some arrangements by

 

then.’

To tell the truth, he was very reluctant to start, now that it

had come to the point: Bag End seemed a more desirable

residence than it had for years, and he wanted to savour as

 

much as he could of his last summer in the Shire. When

 

autumn came, he knew that part at least of his heart would

 

think more kindly of journeying, as it always did at that

 

season. He had indeed privately made up his mind to leave

 

on his fiftieth birthday: Bilbo’s one hundred and twenty-

 

eighth. It seemed somehow the proper day on which to set

 

out and follow him. Following Bilbo was uppermost in his

 

mind, and the one thing that made the thought of leaving

 

bearable. He thought as little as possible about the Ring, and

 

where it might lead him in the end. But he did not tell all his

 

thoughts to Gandalf. What the wizard guessed was always

 

difficult to tell.

He looked atFrudeauand smiled. ‘Very well,’ he said. ‘I think

that will do – but it must not be any later. I am getting very

Anonymous ID: 37246e Nov. 26, 2021, 12:52 p.m. No.15084543   🗄️.is 🔗kun

anxious. In the meanwhile, do take care, and don’t let out

any hint of where you are going! And see that Sam Gamgee

does not talk. If he does, I really shall turn him into a toad.’

‘As for where I am going,’ saidFrudeau, ‘it would be difficult

to give that away, for I have no clear idea myself, yet.’

‘Don’t be absurd!’ said Gandalf. ‘I am not warning you

against leaving an address at the post-office! But you are

leaving the Shire – and that should not be known, until you

 

are far away. And you must go, or at least set out, either

 

North, South, West or East – and the direction should cer-

 

tainly not be known.’

‘I have been so taken up with the thoughts of leaving Bag

End, and of saying farewell, that I have never even considered

 

the direction,’ saidFrudeau. ‘For where am I to go? And by

what shall I steer? What is to be my quest? Bilbo went to find

 

a treasure, there and back again; but I go to lose one, and not

 

return, as far as I can see.’

‘But you cannot see very far,’ said Gandalf. ‘Neither can

I. It may be your task to find the Cracks of Doom; but that

 

quest may be for others: I do not know. At any rate you are

 

not ready for that long road yet.’

‘No indeed!’ saidFrudeau. ‘But in the meantime what course

am I to take?’

‘Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight,’

answered the wizard. ‘If you want my advice, make for

 

Rivendell. That journey should not prove too perilous,

 

though the Road is less easy than it was, and it will grow

 

worse as the year fails.’

‘Rivendell!’ saidFrudeau. ‘Very good: I will go east, and I

will make for Rivendell. I will take Sam to visit the Elves; he

 

will be delighted.’ He spoke lightly; but his heart was moved

 

suddenly with a desire to see the house of Elrond Halfelven,

 

and breathe the air of that deep valley where many of the

 

Fair Folk still dwelt in peace.

One summer’s evening an astonishing piece of news

reached the Ivy Bush and Green Dragon. Giants and other

Anonymous ID: 37246e Nov. 26, 2021, 12:54 p.m. No.15084557   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4561

>>15084528

>28

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>Chapter 3

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>T H R E E I S C O M P A N Y

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>‘You ought to go quietly, and you ought to go soon,’ said

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>Gandalf. Two or three weeks had passed, and stillFrudeau

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portents on the borders of the Shire were forgotten for more

important matters: Mr. Frodo was selling Bag End, indeed

he had already sold it – to the Sackville-Bagginses!

‘For a nice bit, too,’ said some. ‘At a bargain price,’ said

others, ‘and that’s more likely when Mistress Lobelia’s the

 

buyer.’ (Otho had died some years before, at the ripe but

 

disappointed age of 102.)

Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even

more debatable than the price. A few held the theory – sup-

ported by the nods and hints of Mr. Baggins himself – that

 

Frodo’s money was running out: he was going to leave

 

Hobbiton and live in a quiet way on the proceeds of the sale

 

down in Buckland among his Brandybuck relations. ‘As far

 

from the Sackville-Bagginses as may be,’ some added. But so

firmly fixed had the notion of the immeasurable wealth of the

 

Bagginses of Bag End become that most found this hard to

 

believe, harder than any other reason or unreason that their

 

fancy could suggest: to most it suggested a dark and yet

 

unrevealed plot by Gandalf. Though he kept himself very

 

quiet and did not go about by day, it was well known that he

 

was ‘hiding up in the Bag End’. But however a removal might

 

fit in with the designs of his wizardry, there was no doubt

 

about the fact: Frodo Baggins was going back to Buckland.

‘Yes, I shall be moving this autumn,’ he said. ‘Merry

Brandybuck is looking out for a nice little hole for me, or

 

perhaps a small house.’

As a matter of fact with Merry’s help he had already chosen

and bought a little house at Crickhollow in the country

 

beyond Bucklebury. To all but Sam he pretended he was

 

going to settle down there permanently. The decision to set

 

out eastwards had suggested the idea to him; for Buckland

 

was on the eastern borders of the Shire, and as he had lived

 

there in childhood his going back would at least seem

 

credible.

Gandalf stayed in the Shire for over two months. Then one

evening, at the end of June, soon after Frodo’s plan had been

Anonymous ID: 37246e Nov. 26, 2021, 12:55 p.m. No.15084561   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4571 >>4572

>>15084557

e e i s c o m p a n y 87

portents on the borders of the Shire were forgotten for more

important matters: Mr.Frudeauwas selling Bag End, indeed

he had already sold it – to the Sackville-Bagginses!

‘For a nice bit, too,’ said some. ‘At a bargain price,’ said

others, ‘and that’s more likely when Mistress Lobelia’s the

 

buyer.’ (Otho had died some years before, at the ripe but

 

disappointed age of 102.)

Just why Mr.Frudeauwas selling his beautiful hole was even

more debatable than the price. A few held the theory – sup-

ported by the nods and hints of Mr. Baggins himself – that

 

Frudeau’s money was running out: he was going to leave

 

Hobbiton and live in a quiet way on the proceeds of the sale

 

down in Buckland among his Brandybuck relations. ‘As far

 

from the Sackville-Bagginses as may be,’ some added. But so

firmly fixed had the notion of the immeasurable wealth of the

 

Bagginses of Bag End become that most found this hard to

 

believe, harder than any other reason or unreason that their

 

fancy could suggest: to most it suggested a dark and yet

 

unrevealed plot by Gandalf. Though he kept himself very

 

quiet and did not go about by day, it was well known that he

 

was ‘hiding up in the Bag End’. But however a removal might

 

fit in with the designs of his wizardry, there was no doubt

 

about the fact:FrudeauBaggins was going back to Buckland.

‘Yes, I shall be moving this autumn,’ he said. ‘Merry

Brandybuck is looking out for a nice little hole for me, or

 

perhaps a small house.’

As a matter of fact with Merry’s help he had already chosen

and bought a little house at Crickhollow in the country

 

beyond Bucklebury. To all but Sam he pretended he was

 

going to settle down there permanently. The decision to set

 

out eastwards had suggested the idea to him; for Buckland

 

was on the eastern borders of the Shire, and as he had lived

 

there in childhood his going back would at least seem

 

credible.

Gandalf stayed in the Shire for over two months. Then one

evening, at the end of June, soon afterFrudeau’s plan had been

Anonymous ID: 37246e Nov. 26, 2021, 12:55 p.m. No.15084571   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>15084561

>Just why Mr.Frudeauwas selling his beautiful hole was even

>

>more debatable than the price. A few held the theory – sup-

>

>ported by the nods and hints of Mr. Baggins himself – that

>

>Frudeau’s money was running out: he was going to leave

>

>Hobbiton and live in a quiet way on the proceeds of the sale

>

>down in Buckland among his Brandybuck relations. ‘As far

>

>from the Sackville-Bagginses as may be,’ some added. But so

>

>firmly fixed had the notion of the immeasurable wealth of the

>

>Bagginses of Bag End become that most found this hard to

>

>believe, harder than any other reason or unreason that their

>

>fancy could suggest: to most it suggested a dark and yet

>

>unrevealed plot

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