The Quest to Destroy the Ring Council of ElrondĪfter Frodo had made a partial recovery, Elrond organized a great Council, to which representatives of all the free peoples of Middle-earth attended. On October twenty-fourth, Frodo awoke in Rivendell and was reunited with Bilbo, Gandalf, Aragorn, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. The memory of the wound, however, remained for as long as Frodo lived in Middle-earth. Glorfindel arrived in Rivendell and Elrond physically healed Frodo. Subsequently, the Nazgûl were washed away in a flood from the river, called by Elrond. They ordered Frodo to give up the Ring, but he refused. They crossed the River Bruinen (Loudwater) and the Ringwraiths halted on the other side. Continually pursued by the Nazgûl, Asfaloth carried Frodo to the Ford of Bruinen, at the entrance to the valley of Rivendell. Near death, Frodo was rescued by Glorfindel, an Elf-lord, who took the injured Hobbit upon his horse, Asfaloth. Aragorn despite his skill could not heal Frodo's wound a fragment of the Ringwraith's blade remained in Frodo's flesh, where it continued to move towards his heart. The Ringwraiths were driven away in fright by Aragorn with the use of fire. He guided them to Rivendell, and led them through the Midgewater Marshes to Weathertop.Īt Weathertop, in October, five Nazgûl attacked their camp and pierced Frodo with a poisoned Morgul-knife, when Frodo had made the mistake of putting on the Ring. With a pony named Bill that the Hobbits had acquired there, Strider led Frodo and his companions into the wild. When they woke in the morning, they found all of their horses gone. That night, the Black Riders arrived in Bree and attacked the inn, but Strider managed to hide the Hobbits from them. When he reappeared, Strider pulled him aside and warned him that he was drawing too much attention to himself. Consequently, the Hobbit turned invisible. Frodo tried to distract the crowd, singing and dancing on a table, but he jumped and fell, causing the Ring to slip onto his finger. Soon, Pippin was overly enjoying himself with the attention of an audience and was talking loudly about the Baggins family. At the inn bar, Frodo asked the innkeeper, Barliman Butterbur, about a cloaked man sitting in the shadows, and learned that he was a Ranger, going by the name Strider. In Bree, the Hobbits booked rooms at the inn of The Prancing Pony, and Frodo went by the name of Mr Underhill, attempting to raise as little suspicion as possible. They met other troubles in those places though, and were almost killed by Old Man Willow and Barrow-wights, but were rescued twice by Tom Bombadil. They cut through the Old Forest and the Barrow-downs, and lost the Black Riders. There, Frodo found that Merry and Pippin already knew about Frodo's "secret" journey, and he was left with no choice but to bring the two with him. They feared it might be a Black Rider, but it turned out to be Meriadoc Brandybuck, and together the four hobbits took the Bucklebury Ferry over to Buckland. As the Hobbits arrived at Buckland, escorted by Farmer Maggot, a rider approached.
On September 23, 3018, Frodo left Bag End, taking Samwise Gamgee and Peregrin Took with him, heading for Crickhollow.įrodo set out to Bree to meet Gandalf, but on the way he discovered a Nazgûl was searching for him. Frodo therefore invented a story that he was moving to Buckland and sold Bag End to the Sackville-Baggins. Realizing that Sauron would be looking for the Ring, Gandalf advised Frodo to take it with him and secretly follow Bilbo's journey to Rivendell. Translated into the Common Speech that read, One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. After throwing the ring into a fire and then examining it, he and Frodo were able to read the inscription upon it: Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. On April 12th, 3018, Gandalf returned to Bag End to confirm his suspicion. After some study, and reading a scroll written by Isildur (the High King of Gondor and Arnor after his father Elendil), he concluded that the ring Bilbo had recovered from Gollum was probably the master ring which Isildur had cut from the hand of Sauron at the conclusion of the War of the Last Alliance. Sometime during the next 17 years, during a trip to Gondor, Gandalf researched what Bilbo's ring might be. Following Gandalf's advice, Frodo hid the ring in a safe place. Frodo thus inherited Bag End along with Bilbo's magic ring. Bilbo Baggins, Frodo's uncle, left the Shire on Septemafter a party marking his 111th birthday (and Frodo's 33rd).
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