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Chapter 365 Frodo

Frodo looked at the beautiful little elf Elses who appeared first, and then Duir and Ellos who arrived later, and was full of amazement.

He had heard about Duir's deeds from his Uncle Bilbo before and was deeply impressed by him, but he had never had the chance to see him in person.

Now, meeting him for the first time, seeing Duir's young and handsome face, as well as his elegant, mysterious, and dignified aura, I instantly associated him with the wizard lord who subdued the dragon in my memory.

The pair of elven twins, a brother and sister, possessed an elegant and noble demeanor, and their features bore a resemblance to Duir.

As if sensing his gaze, Duir, who was talking to Bilbo, turned around, met his eyes, and then gave a gentle smile.

"You must be Frodo, right? I used to hold you when you were little. I never imagined you'd grow into such a big young man."

Dui looked at Frodo with the eyes of someone looking at a junior, and then took out a small gift box.

"This is a gift for you, I hope you like it."

“This… uh, thank you, Uncle Duir!” Frodo accepted the gift box after receiving a nod of approval from Bilbo.

In fact, Frodo would receive gifts from Duir every year on his birthday, but they had never met for various reasons.

Therefore, the two sides are not exactly strangers.

Frodo's parents died when he was 15, while boating on the River Brandy. For the next few years, he was cared for by his mother's family, the Brandy Deer, until he was 21 when he was adopted by Bilbo as his heir and taken to live in Bag End.

Frodo opened his gift box, inside which was a Saint White Leaf-shaped brooch.

Dui smiled and explained, "This is an enchanted brooch that can protect you when you are in danger."

He looked at Frodo, his thoughts a mix of emotions.

The somewhat shy hobbit before us is hard to imagine as the protagonist of The Lord of the Rings: The Great Singing, tasked with destroying the One Ring and utterly destroying Sauron.

Although he hasn't personally met the protagonist over the years, he has always kept track of his situation.

According to the original trajectory, Frodo's parents should have died unexpectedly when he was 12 years old.

Knowing his fate all along, Dui naturally wouldn't stand idly by and watch this happen. Besides not being able to bear seeing Frodo become an orphan, Zogo Baggins was also his friend.

So when Dui couldn't remember the exact day the Zogo Baggins and his wife passed away, he specially gave them a protective magical item to save them from death.

In the end, they did manage to save the couple who were nearly drowning, allowing them to live until Frodo was fifteen years old.

But perhaps fate had already made its decision in secret, or perhaps it had sensed the call of Mandos.

The Zogo Baggins and his wife could not escape death and drowned again in the Brandy River.

Frodo's mother, Primula Brandyde, was the daughter of the head of the Brandyde family. After Frodo's parents died, he was taken back to the family by his maternal grandfather and raised there. He grew up with his cousins, Merry Brandyde and Pippin Tucker.

Bilbo Baggins never married and had no heir. Although he had the elixir of immortality given to him by Dui and could live forever, Bilbo was a very easily satisfied person and did not intend to live forever. Instead, he decided to stop drinking the elixir of immortality when he had lived enough and accept slowly growing old until he fell into eternal sleep.

In order to prevent his cousin's wife and her family, who had been eyeing his property, from inheriting his pocket and assets.

Therefore, they decided to find an heir to inherit their house and property.

Frodo, orphaned at a young age, fell into Bilbo's sights. Bilbo spent several years proving his sincerity to Frodo's maternal family, the Brandyde Stags, and finally gained their consent to become Frodo's guardian.

For decades, Middle-earth has remained relatively peaceful, and Mordor's power has remained entrenched, without expanding outwards.

Dui also spent most of his time at Hogwarts, constantly meditating and studying magic.

But in recent years he has felt the gears of fate turning again. Judging from Gandalf's frequent visits to the Shire and Bag End in recent years, Duy had already guessed that Gandalf had obviously made a decision.

Although Mordor has remained silent, it seems as if they have given up.

But the One Ring, which had been kept in Tom Bombadil in the Old Forest, had grown increasingly powerful over the years and was even beginning to summon its master, Sauron.

The One Ring's magic grew stronger, but Tom Bombadil and his wife Goldenberry remained unaffected.

But to Tom Bombadil, something that constantly releases evil and dark power is like having a contaminated, radioactive object in your home or even right next to you.

It won't hurt them, but it's disgusting enough.

After all, no one wants to keep smelly garbage around them.

If it weren't for his previous promise to safeguard the One Ring, and the constant gentle comfort and persuasion from his wife, Goldberry...

Tom Bombardier had already thrown it away to avoid polluting his home and the forest.

Even so, every time Tom Bombadil sees Duy and Gandalf, he complains and asks when they will be taken away.

Moreover, with the resurgence of the One Ring, the connection between the Ring and Sauron will become even stronger, and even Tom Bombadil will find it difficult to suppress.

At the same time, the resurgence and strengthening of the One Ring also demonstrates that Sauron's power has become immense.

If Sauron senses the location of the One Ring, he may do anything to reclaim it.

Tom Bombadil does not belong to any faction, nor does he participate in the conflicts of Middle-earth.

Duy, Gandalf, and others naturally couldn't involve Tom in the war.

Therefore, they had long ago discussed how to deal with the One Ring, even before Sauron established a connection with it, to properly dispose of it or destroy it completely.

The only problem is that even Galadriel and Gandalf dared not touch the One Ring, or even approach it.

Only the unique racial characteristics of hobbits give them a certain degree of resistance to the magic of the One Ring.

That is the most suitable candidate for upholding the precepts.

But most hobbits lack the courage and spirit to take risks.

The remaining members of the Turk family and the Brandy Deer family possess an adventurous spirit, but are also very impulsive and unable to remain rational.

Bilbo's lineage had a double advantage: his mother came from the adventurous Turk family, and his father came from the comfortable and resilient Baggins family.

This dual bloodline gives him both the courage to embark on adventures and the lack of impulsiveness typical of pure Turk family members, allowing him to maintain rationality during adventures.

And this is the most suitable candidate to be the One Ring Holder.

Previously, Bilbo was the only candidate.

But Bilbo, with his strong will, still chose to relinquish the Ring and refused to touch it again, because he could not guarantee that he still had the same will to resist the Ring's temptation.

Gandalf and Duy were unwilling to force Bilbo to shoulder such a heavy burden and pressure.

It wasn't until Frodo appeared that Gandalf saw new hope.

(End of this chapter)