Some people were rather shocked but Frodo kept up the custom of giving Bilbo's Birthday Party year after year until they got used to it.

But that was short of the mark, for twenty guests were invited and there were several meals at which it snowed food and rained drink, as hobbits say. He refused to go into mourning and the next year he gave a party in honour of Bilbo's hundred-and-twelfth birthday, which he called Hundred-weight Feast. Indeed, he at once began to carry on Bilbo's reputation for oddity. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticeable. 'If only that dratted wizard will leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. There he had undoubtedly fallen into a pool or a river and come to a tragic, but hardly an untimely, end. It became a fireside-story for young hobbits and eventually Mad Baggins, who used to vanish with a bang and a flash and reappear with bags of jewels and gold, became a favourite character of legend and lived on long after all the true events were forgotten.īut in the meantime, the general opinion in the neighbourhood was that Bilbo, who had always been rather cracked, had at last gone quite mad, and had run off into the Blue. Bilbo Baggins was discussed in Hobbiton, and indeed all over the Shire, for a year and a day, and was remembered much longer than that. The talk did not die down in nine or even ninety-nine days. Book I Chapter 2 The Shadow of the Past - 01

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