Seeing Bilbo’s reaction, Gandalf suspects that this plain ring may be much more powerful than they thought before. Only the intervention of Gandalf allows him to do this. Bilbo decides to give the ring to Frodo as the birthday present, but when it comes to it, Bilbo can’t make himself to give the thing away.
Bilbo invited all the Shire to his party and is now preparing to give away almost everything he possesses.Īmong the guests are the aforementioned wizard, Gandalf the Grey and Bilbo’s nephew and heir, a young hobbit named Frodo. Their customs state that the person shouldn’t receive gifts, but give a small present to each guest themselves. Still, a birthday - moreover, a jubilee, 111th birthday - is a special day for hobbits. The ring is now a mere souvenir, laying somewhere among other small things in his house. Bilbo managed to escape Gollum’s cave with the help of the ring and later use it under the Lonely Mountain.īut he returned home, earning (dubious) fame and (enormous) fortune, and settled down.
The ring belonged to the humanlike and hostile creature named Gollum. On his way to the mountain Bilbo found a plain golden ring that made its bearer invisible. They managed to kill the dragon, who was dwelling in the abandoned dwarven city under the Lonely Mountain and return it to the dwarves.
But Bilbo broke all the hobbits’ traditions several decades ago and went to adventure to the Lonely Mountain with the squad of dwarves and the wizard named Gandalf (these events are described in “Hobbit”). Hobbits resemble humans very much, but they are just half as tall, have hairy legs (so they prefer walking barefoot) and are very conservative and not outgoing at all. The first book, “The Fellowship of the Ring” begins with the birthday party for Bilbo - the rich and respected hobbit living in Hobbitshire. The story consists of three books and it is tightly connected with two more works of Tolkien: “Hobbit” that predates the events of the book and tells the story of finding The One Ring and “Silmarillion” that doesn’t directly interfere with the events of the book, but is rather a mythology of the world that explains the existence of ancient powers that drive the plot. This work of the author, with its explicitly detailed world with its own history, culture and even fully functional languages, inspired countless writers to expand the genre and write their own stories, settings, games and movie plots. It is considered the iconic example of all the fantasy genre. The Lord of the Rings is an epic story written by John R.
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