Tag: frodo

Mushrooms and all.

Well it’s the next morning after the elf sleep over party in the woods and the hobbits are gathering their things.

They discover the elf’s have left behind elf bread and drink. They’re so excited about because apparently elf bread is the best. Frodo wakes up later than the group and Pippin tells him hey…. Sam made me leave you some food.

I want to take a moment to point out that the elves knew Frodo was leaving the shire, they hinted at it then moved away from the topic.

Also Sam the Gardner and Frodo’s companion in this adventure had always wanted to see an elf. And he not only got to see the elf he was able to hang out with the elves, eat their food, and listen to their stories.

So at this moment Sam has been enlightened in a way he’s seen elves up close and experienced their unearthly beauty and now feels different. It happens to the best of us Sam, we leave our little community and realize the world is big and vast.

Back to the story.

The DnD party gathers their items and begins to travel again, they’re going over to the next hobbit town where Frodo has a new home. The story Frodo has concocted is that he wanted to settle back in his home town, his friends had set everything up for it.

So they walk on and into a farm, a farm owned by a farmer named Maggot.

Apparently Frodo and him have history: back in his youth Frodo ate a bunch of Farmer Maggot’s mushrooms. Farmer Maggot catches Frodo eating his mushrooms and then scares the living shit out of Frodo over it and threatens him with his dogs.

So naturally Frodo notices Farmer Maggots property he’s like yeah guys lets not and Pippin is like whatever, because they literally have never met a stranger.

And then they start yelling for Farmer Maggot to come out. Frodo tries to blend into the background and Sam just hangs out unaware of why Frodo is so uncomfortable.

And out comes out Farmer Maggots along with his two dogs Grip, Fang and Wolf. What sort of names are these! And the dogs are just cute.

Can we just take a moment to really take in how LoTR really set the foundation for Fantasy novels? This moment here just reminds me of Harry Potter going out to see Hagrid out back. Hagrid is scary and so are his pets but he’s actually very loyal and sweet.

Sidebar: I am a little peeved though as a lady I would like a cool lady character about now but so far the ladies are delighted to be background characters. This is very much a fantasy adventure centered around friends and there will be no badass woman or a love triangle. And to be honest it would sort of ruin the story a little bit. I don’t know why I feel that way and I don’t feel like deep diving into that at the moment.

Anyways Frodo really wants Farmer Maggot not to remember him but he does and he teases Frodo a little. Which sort of reminds me of all those scary mean adults we meet as kids and young adults. We think man they hate me or they are no fun but you run into them as full grown adult and realize they really aren’t. As young adults/kids you don’t realize they just are looking out for you. Farmer Maggot was teaching a young rambunctious Frodo a lesson and scaring him was one way to go about it.

Alright also this book so far is about dudes going on an adventure, low supplies and running into friends and staying over for dinner and drinks. I mean this is a place of magic and mystery yet if you role the dice right you’ll end up with a good meal.

Farmer Maggot greets the boys happily but he brings a Dark Rider who was asking questions. Before he could say more he tells the group to come in have a drink and they’ll chat.

At first its them plus the farmer and his wife and then it turns into about 14 other people as the farmers employees join in.

Farmer Maggot glares at Frodo a little, asks how they got here and then teases Frodo a bit calling him a rascal and bringing up his stolen mushrooms.

Thats when the story begins…Farmer Maggot tells them the Dark Rider aka Big Folk was asking about Frodo.

“Have you seen Baggins.”

Farmer Maggot tells the Dark Rider to leave to be off Baggins isn’t here that he hear he went to Hobbinton, but the Dark Rider insisted and offered gold. When the Dark Rider didn’t get the information he wanted he hissed then rode off.

Then Farmer Maggot brings up Bilbo’s travels and treasure, he also tells Frodo that if anyone else came looking for Frodo he would say Frodo was dead or whatever.

He offers to drive Frodo to the ferry by wagon, and they go but the wagon has no lights on and then a dark rider shows up not he road.

Farmer Maggot tells Frodo to hide and is about to square up with this rider.

But its just Merry Brandybuck, his government name is Meriadoc Brandybuck.

I get so confused in this book, so many names and I’ve had to start taking notes when I read. Its time consuming.

Anyways I have notes for chapter 5 but I also have to go back into those and clarify what I read. Who knew this would end up a bit more complicated than expected.

But we are on an unexpected journey in this book.

Till next time.