While rereading "Council of Elrond" on my flight this morning to double check my accuracy, I find a line that I had previously glossed over.
At the Council, Frodo tells everyone of his time with the Ring. All the way from Bilbo's disappearance to the Council. When he is finished, Bilbo encourages him and insists that they sit down and get all the story written down if Bilbo is to write anything up for his book.
"There are whole chapters of stuff before you ever got here! " Bilbo exclaims.
Later in the chapter, Bilbo is the first to volunteer his services as the Ring bearer to Mordor. Gandalf applauds his bravery but asks him to stay in Rivendell and to "get ready to write a sequel, when they [the fellowship] come back. "
I enjoy these lines because from a lore standpoint, what we know as The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit comes from the "Red Book of Westmarch" which is the name of the book that Bilbo is always working on. This book is passed down by Sam's family until Tolkien discovers it somewhere and translated it from its original "Westron" into English.
Cool, huh?
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