Tolkien wrote:
They went out into the hall. Bilbo chose his favourite stick from the stand; then he whistled. Three dwarves came out of different rooms where they had been busy.
'Is everything ready?' asked Bilbo. 'Everything packed and labelled?'
'Everything,' they answered.
'Well, let's start then!' He stepped out of the front-door.
Some how I never noticed these 3 dwarves. Any thoughts on who they might be?? Just take a guess. Maybe Tolkien explains it in one of his letters, I am not sure.
I find this one intriguing. Frodo and Gandalf talk about which version about how Bilbo got the ring he had told to them both. The true version. At least they both believe it.
'What do you know already?'
'Only what Bilbo told me. I have heard his story: how he found it, and how he used it: on his journey, I mean.'
'Which story, I wonder,' said Gandalf.
'Oh, not what he told the dwarves and put in his book,' said Frodo. 'He told me the true story soon after I came to live here. He said you had pestered him till he told you, so I had better know too. "No secrets between us, Frodo," he said; "but they are not to go any further. It's mine anyway."'
So, now I am wondering... what did we read in 'The Hobbit' actually. The story Bilbo wrote down in his book (not the true version)?
Oh I forgot how much I loved Gandalf. If it was not only by this
line:
He went on with his tea. The knock was repeated, much louder, but he took no notice. Suddenly the wizard's head appeared at the window.
'If you don't let me in, Frodo, I shall blow your door right down your hole and out through the hill,' he said.
