Chapter One:
The Odd Individual
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole,and that means comfort.
It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with paneled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill - The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it - and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.
This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Bilbo Baggins.
But that tale was meant to be told on another day, at another time. The unexpected party at Bilbo's doorstep will have to be sung some other night. Since this is the adventure of a individual who has also lived at Bags-End all her life, in comfort much like most Hobbits.
Under Bilbo's' care she grew into someone with a spark in her eye, you could tell, even in her youth, she ached for adventure. Yearned for the day where her name would be renowned for feats possibly even greater than Master Baggins' as well! She was a born Took if he ever saw one. Yet for one odd reason or another, she has never been known to leave Bags-End let alone the travel very far from Bywater, the central heart of the Shire.
On many occasions more often than not, Bilbo did ponder why she would never agree to travel with him, her face would show sadness whenever adventure did call him from time to time, yet it always seemed to lighten with a big smile when she heard him walking the dirt road to Bags-End, singing one tune or another. He often thought she was lonely being by herself for weeks at a time, considering most of his friends lived quite a long distance, with haired hobbit feet, even longer. But it all changed when Frodo showed up.
She was quite the odd fellow, having very few friends, the other Hobbits of Hobbiton, even if they would never say it in front of her, out of Bilbo's respect, they were suspicious of an outsider in their midst. To have an Elf in the Shire of all places was viewed as queer.
Now you as well might think it odd that an Elf would be under Bilbos' care and guidance, she wasn't born in the Shire, they all knew that, she looked to be of fifth-teen in age, but with elves, who knew just how old she was! She appeared just some years after Bilbo's journey, some may say carried in by the one and only Gandalf the Grey, but who truly knows on those stormy nights in the Shire? Word got around from one nosy Hobbit to another that she did not remember much of origins or where on Middle Earth she hailed from and most importantly why she didn't go back. All of this only increased how much of an oddity she was to the Hobbits. Even so, with all said and done, the Shire became her home.
But that was many years ago, almost seventy five years have passed since that day she mysteriously appeared at Bags-End. Many things have changed, Bilbo left for Rivendell quite a long time ago, so for many many seasons it was just her and Frodo living behind that perfectly round door, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle.
So, this all the way up to chapter 11 will be completely re-done and rewritten. This is short, sorry about that but I thought adding more would ruin it.
Now, Onward to the next chapter!
-Ashland (Please review if you enjoyed the new!)