01-24-2014, 12:27 AM | #1 | |
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Frodo’s memories of Balin
“The Bridge of Khazad-dûm” begins,
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2942 - Bilbo returns to the Shire with the Ring.So Gandalf and Balin’s visit with Bilbo, Frodo’s birth, Balin’s departure from Erebor, and the discovery of Balin’s are separated by twenty years apiece. (With a little wiggle room for Frodo’s birth. And the last jump is thirty years.) Unless Balin visited Bilbo a second time before he entered Moria, and Tolkien failed to note it in his official timeline, “Balin’s visit to the Shire long ago” was not a memory of Frodo’s: his was a memory of Bilbo’s recollecting the visit, and possibly Gandalf, too. Bilbo might have told of the visit several times: he was particularly fond of Balin, who seems to have been his favorite among Thorin & Company. Speaking to Frodo in Rivendell, he expressed disappointment that, “Old Balin had gone away,” when he visited Dale and Erebor. That must have as soon as he left the Shire, since Appendix B says 3001 - Bilbo's farewell feastBut it sounds as if Frodo himself recalled Balin’s visit to Hobbiton, not only on a first reading, but for many readings afterwards. Does this bother anyone else? Is it an inconsistency, or just something easily misunderstood in casual reading? Is it even an issue for you? Last edited by Alcuin : 01-24-2014 at 12:30 AM. |
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