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Walk from Bag End to Rivendell; to start on Bilbo's birthday
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Notes for the walk from Hobbiton



from the chapter: "Three is Company" in the Fellowship of the Ring, by JRRTolkien

It was the day after the Birthday party which Frodo had celebrated with a few close friends. He had been expecting Gandalf to come as
he had promised and was growing anxious that the wizard had not arrived.
The following morning his friends except for Sam and Pippin had left. Merry and Fredegar had taken a cart load of Frodo's stuff to his new home in Bucklebury. The Sackville-Bagginses had come to check that all was in good order and to take the key, for at midnight Bag End would belong to them.

Sam and Pippin remained behind with Frodo to accompany him on the walk to Bucklebury Ferry. After they had eaten there last meal at Bag End Pippin went out to wander round the garden, Sam disappeared and Frodo went out to look at the stars.

It was during this time that Frodo overheard the conversation between the Gaffer (Sam's dad) and a stranger. The Gaffer was
answering questions about him, Frodo! He couldn't hear the questions but he could hear the Gaffer's shrill answers. "Yes, he
sold up and moved away. . . To Bucklebury or some such place. . . "

Frodo hurried back up the hill so he never saw the stranger. He was annoyed that follks were so nosy about him.
Back at the house Pippin was waiting in the porch with his pack, Sam was in the cellar taking a last drink from the beer-barrel.

Frodo called them all to start on the journey and gave Sam the spare key to Bag End to take down to the Gaffer to keep for the S-Bs.

Frodo and Pippin set out down the west side of the hill. They followed the garden path down the hill and
"jumped over the low place in the hedge at the bottom and took to the fields, passing into the darkness like a rustle in the grasses. At the bottom of the hill on its western side they came to the gate opening on to a narrow land. There they halted . . . Sam appeared, trotting quickly and breathing hard, his heavy pack was hoisted high on his shoulders, and he had put on his head a tall shapeless felt bag, which he called a hat. In the gloom he looked very much like a dwarf."

That is the first reading which should be read at the start of the event.
As i have said i havnt actually looked for these places myself so i have no idea if we will find the low place in the hedge that is
mentioned or not. but we can try at least.
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