22 September | A Long Expected Party - The Old Forest
Frodo inherits Bilbo’s hobbit hole, Bag End, and the Ring after Bilbo runs off. He gives away Bilbo’s belongings left for friends and relatives, including the troublesome and bitter Lobelia and Otho Sackville-Bagginses, who were originally next in line to inherit from Bilbo.
Like Bilbo, Frodo shows signs of good preservation after he takes possession of the Ring.
Seventeen years after Bilbo disappears, Gandalf comes to tell him he needs to take the Ring and leave the Shire. Frodo sells Bag End to the Sackville-Baggins and pretends he’s moving permanently to another part of the Shire. In reality, he’s planning to leave from there and make for Rivendell. He takes Samwise Gamgee with him.