Summary

Chapter 19. Gandalf and Bilbo make it to Rivendell on the first of May. They are given a warm welcome. They spend the evening telling their adventure to Elrond. It is at this point that Bilbo learns what Gandalf had been doing when he left the dwarves and hobbit at Mirkwood. Gandalf was at a great council of the white wizards and together they drove the Necromancer from his stronghold in Mirkwood. Bilbo is eager to get home, so after a week they say goodbye to Elrond and make their way to Hobbiton. They stop along the way and dig up the trolls’ gold they had buried, taking it with them. Bilbo arrives home on June twenty-second to find that he is presumed dead and that his possessions are being auctioned off. Bilbo has to use a good deal of his gold to buy back his possessions...