[ SECRET POST #3531 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3531 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Leaving aside the whole fact that Bilbo was clearly in no state to do anything about the Ring by that stage, what do they mean, letting Frodo suffer the consequences of his actions? Which actions? I mean, Bilbo's hardly to blame for having stumbled across a magic ring that wanted to be found while staggering around the arsecrack of the world in fear of his life, or for everyone around him failing to realise/tell him what it was until the shit had already hit the fan and he was too old and worn through to do anything about it. Even if Bilbo felt responsible, I don't see how he actually could be. And while the flight to Rivendell was a result of Bilbo leaving the Ring in the Shire, he didn't exactly expect that nine several-thousand-years-undead wraiths would promptly come hunting it and force Frodo to run either. Anything past that point, Frodo volunteered for himself, and Bilbo was no more responsible for him having to than anyone else at that Council.

Neither hobbit should have had to be the one to carry the Ring, they just both had that wonderful combination of good/bad luck, stubborn noble streak, adventuring spirit and resistance to temptation while in the middle of what turned out to be the reheating period of several decades-to-millennia-old cold wars.

[arcadiaego]

There's some hints that Bilbo has been dishonest between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings about what went on, but it's said in LotR that he told Frodo the truth anyway so I'm not sure why anyone would accuse him of just foisting stuff onto Frodo.