22 September | A Long Expected Party - The Old Forest
Bilbo throws a huge Shire-wide party for his 111th birthday. He is the current bearer of the Ring, having found it during a brush with Gollum/Sméagol. Details of that encounter are in The Hobbit. The Ring has “preserved” him and given him an abnormally long life.
During his party, Bilbo uses the Ring to vanish in front of his guests, leaves his home and belongings to his cousin, Frodo, and goes traveling.