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Thirty Drabbles Hath November 2011  by Rhyselle 2 Review(s)
shireboundReviewed Chapter: 17 on 11/18/2011
I like getting little glimpses into Frodo and Bilbo's lives together.

eilujReviewed Chapter: 17 on 11/18/2011
Trust Bilbo to mention the Elves! And his Adventure. And always teaching. While Frodo is young, rather incurious, and more of a typical hobbit than he will be when he is older. Then you add a bit of foreshadowing to end the drabble: very nice!

The quotation you want is from the bottom of the first page of A Long-Expected Party:

"The eldest of these, and Bilbo's favourite, was young Frodo Baggins. When Bilbo was ninety-nine he adopted Frodo as his heir, and brought him to live at Bag End; and the hopes of the Sackville-Bagginses were finally dashed."

So the adoption was sometime between September 22, 2989, and September 21, 2990: the year Frodo was 21.

I always imagined the Road had been paved during the early days of the Third Age -- and the Númenoreans were master engineers, with technology sometimes better than our own. So, definitely dirt-covered, but not much growing atop it except an occasional bit of grass, particularly in the low spots; stone showing through at the top of the crests. Still perceptible as the Roman roads were in Britain: though unlike them, in continual use since hobbits moved in to the Shire.


Psst -- Michel Delving. Related to the old words mickle/muckle. The E of A cites the OE micel.

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