For the Record, I have not read the books, and I spent the last 15 years Purposely avoiding BOTH The LOTR and Hobbit Trilogies...
Why, may I ask?
Anyway, to your question: Although the movies does not show this, Frodo actually held the ring for 17-18 years before leaving the Shire to go to Rivendell. He leaves after Gandalf returns and tells him it is the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron. Until then this was unknown, even to Gandalf although he suspected something dark. And even then Frodo does not leave right away, it takes another 6 month or so - partly because Frodo tries to mask that he is sort of in a rush, or about to go on a quest.
So, what sets it all in motion is not the Hobbits, but really that Sauron regains his strengths enough to mobilize, and in the process he searches for the ring... and Gandalf figures this out in time to warn our dear Hobbit...
The question to when Sauron begins to eye the Shire in his search is a bit more tricky. In the books, I believe, it is only hinted that Gollum is playing a part here. Anyway, Gollum escapes from Mordor about a year before Frodo leaves the Shire so if two plus two equals four; Sauron did not begin to eye Shire and the Baggins until long after Bilbo had given up the Ring to Frodo, and my then Gandalf was on to him.
I've now watch BOTH The LOTR and Hobbit Trilogy 4 time in the last year and have loved them just as much every time...
Go for the Directors Cut. They are far superior imo.
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Otaku-sempai
8 years ago
Although the movies does not show this, Frodo actually held the ring for 17-18 years before leaving the Shire to go to Rivendell.
In JRRT's legendarium Frodo remains in the Shire for another seventeen years (from TA 3001 to 3018). However, this is not true in the films where he seems to leave only about a year after Bilbo does. This is confirmed in
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies when Thranduil speaks of Aragorn as a Ranger called Strider. In Tolkien's canon the Elvenking could not possibly know about an adult Strider as Aragorn at the time of the Battle of Five Armies is still a ten year-old boy being raised in secret in Rivendell by Elrond. Peter Jackson's timeline makes Aragorn around twenty-five years old at the time of the Quest of Erebor.
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dijomaja-382-516639
8 years ago
Right. Even though Tolkien's Hobbits age more slowly than Men Frodo, Sam, et al. are clearly the same ages when they leave the Shire that they were at the time of Bilbo's party. Book-Frodo is, I believe, 50 when he sets out.
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Otaku-sempai
8 years ago
Even though Tolkien's Hobbits age more slowly than Men Frodo, Sam, et al. are clearly the same ages when they leave the Shire that they were at the time of Bilbo's party. Book-Frodo is, I believe, 50 when he sets out.
Yes, at the time of Bilbo's birthday party in JRRT's legendarium Merry, Pippin and Samwise were all under the age of adulthood. Pippin was only eleven years old; Merry was about nineteen; and Sam was the oldest of the three at twenty-one. Hobbits are considered to have reached adulthood when they turn thirty-three (Bilbo's party also marked Frodo's thirty-third birthday and coming of age in the book).
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