Name: The fellowship of the Ring Book 1 |Chapter 3| Three is Company
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'You ought to go quietly, and you ought to go soon,' said Gandalf.

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Two or three weeks had passed, and still Frodo made no sign of getting ready to go.

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.

If you can think of any way of slipping out of the Shire without its being generally known,

'What about the autumn, on or after Our Birthday?'

'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,

He had indeed privately made up his mind to leave on his fiftieth birthday: Bilbo's

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

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.

'I think that will do – but it must not be any later.

In the meanwhile, do take care, and don't let out any hint of where you are going!

If he does, I really shall turn him into a toad.'

'As for where I am going,' said Frodo, 'it would be difficult to give that away,

'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

'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,' said Frodo.

Bilbo went to find a treasure, there and back again; but I go to lose one, and not return,

'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

At any rate you are not ready for that long road yet.'

'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.'

'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

One summer's evening an astonishing piece of news reached the Ivy Bush and Green Dragon.

Giants and other 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!

'At a bargain price,' said others, 'and that's more likely when Mistress Lobelia's

(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 – supported 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

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

Gandalf stayed in the Shire for over two months.

Then one evening, at the end of June, soon after Frodo's plan had been finally arranged,

he suddenly announced that he was going off again next morning.

'Only for a short while, I hope,' he said.

'But I am going down beyond the southern borders to get some news, if I can.

He spoke lightly, but it seemed to Frodo that he looked rather worried.

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