At Bilbo Baggins 111th birthday

"Sing for us little Lila pleases" cried Frodo smiling , Lila just gave a small smile towards him and gave a small nod before walking up to the stage and to begin singing, which she made all by herself during her spare time at home…….

In sleep he sang to me,

In dreams he came

That voice which calls to me

And speaks my name,

And do I dream again?

For now I find,

The man of my dreams is there,

Inside my mind,

Those who have seen your face,

Draw back in fear,

I am the mask you wear,

It's me they hear,

Your spirit and my voice

Inside my mind

He's there

The man of my…

…dreams.

As Lila finished her song, the crowd cheered and clapped at her song. Lila bowed and went off the stage smiling before sitting down next Sorcha.

"That was a beautiful song, young Elvin twin child" said Sorcha before turning her head towards Bilbo who was now standing on the stage with a smile and preparing for his speech

'My Dear People' Bilbo began 'Hear! Hear! Hear!' They shouted including Lila and Harry (even though their elves they were mistaken as hobbits for their small size)

'My dear Bagginess' and Boffins,' he began again 'and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots.'

"PROUDFEET"shouted an elderly hobbit from the back of the pavilion.

'proudfoots,' Bilbo repeated 'also my good Sackville-Bagginses that I welcome back at last to Bag end. Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday; I am eleventy-one today!'

"Hurray! Hurray! Many Happy Returns! Everybody shouted

'I hope you are all enjoying yourselves as much as I am. I shall not keep ypu long' he cried 'I have called you all together for a Purpose. Indead, for Three Purposes! First of all, to tell you that I am immensely fond of you all, and that eleventy-one years is to short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Secondly, to celebrate my birthday.' CHEERS again 'I should say: OUR birthday. For it is, of course, also the birthday of my heir and nephew Frodo. He comes of age and into his inheritance today.'

Some loud shouts of 'Frodo! Frodo! Jolly old Frodo,' from the juniors

'Together we score one hundred and forty-four. Your numbers were chosen to fitt this remarkable total: One Gross, if I may use the expression. It is also, if I may be allowed to refer to ancient history, the anniversary of my rival by at Esgaroth on the Long Lake; though the fact that it was my birthday slipped my memory on the occasion. I was only fifty-one then, and birthdays did not seem so important. The banquet was very splendid, however, though I had a bad cold at the time, I remember, and could only say ' thag you very buch'. I now I repeat it more correctly: thank you very much for coming to my little party.

Thirdly and finally, he said I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. His last words he spoke were loud and sudden. I regret to announce that—though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend, among you—this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!'

All of a sudden, Bilbo vanished into thin when he stepped off the stage. This made every one hundred and forty- four hobbits speechless including Harry and Lila.

Everybody came back to reality from their long dull silence of what happened to Bilbo.

The party went on with out Bilbo. During the party some of the hobbits were whispering to one another about Bilbo's disappearance and whether he's finally gone or he's coming back to the Shire.

Lila and Harry got up from their seats and went to help Frodo with food or alcohol orders. This took hours at a time but they manage.

When the party was almost coming to an end, both Harry and Lila went back to sit with Sorcha to discuss about Bilbo's disappearance and whether they could stay with Frodo for the remainder of the night at his home.

But instead of her being there at her chair, there was a note of saying and it was: 'Children dear, pardon my rude behavior of leaving without saying but I have some important business to take of out of the Shire and I won't be back till mid winter or mid spring. So I left you both in the care by non other than Frodo Baggins, (since earlier into the party that his uncle disappeared) since he need some company in his home. So better behave. If not, you both will receive a terrible punishment from non-other than me, ok.

Take care, Sorcha'

Both Lila and Harry just looked at each and went back to find Frodo, to tell about the good news.

Bilbo's sitting room

Harry, Lila, and Frodo went back to the hobbit hole shortly after Bilbo left the party and the home. They noticed that Gandalf was in a deep thought. Gandalf came to the Shire to celebrate Bilbo's birthday. So what he did was he brought a cart full of fireworks and was set off by him.

"Has he gone?" Frodo spoke and broke the silence

'Yes,' Gandalf said 'he has gone at last'

"Where did he go, Gandalf?" said Lila

'He went on a parallel journey, young one' said Gandalf

"I wish – I mean, I hoped until this evening that it was only a joke," Frodo said "but I knew in my heart that he really meant to go. He always used to joke about serious things. I wish I had come back sooner, just too see him off."

"Me too, Gandalf" said Harry "only to say good bye and good luck"

'I think really he preferred slipping off quietly in the end' said Gandalf. 'Don't be too troubled. He'll be all right—now. He left a packet for you, Frodo. There it is!'

All three heads turned towards the mantelpiece and noticed a white envelope. Frodo went to the mantelpiece and took it. He glanced at it but did not open it.

'You'll find his will and all the other documents in there, I think,' said Gandalf. 'You are the master of Bag End now. And also, I fancy, you'll find a golden ring.'

"A golden ring?" said Harry with a questioning look

Lila didn't have anything more to say, so she just said good night to everybody in the room and went to bed.

"The ring!" said Frodo. "Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful."

'It may, and it may not,' said Gandalf. 'I should not make use of it, if were you. But keep it secret, and keep it safe! Now I am going to bed.'

"What does it mean, Frodo?" said Harry right after Gandalf left the room

"I'm not sure Harry but let's go to bed too. We have a lot of things to do tomorrow. Good night." said Frodo leaving the room

"I guess your right, Frodo and good night too" said Harry also leaving

next morning

Night passed. When morning came, Frodo had some important business to intend to, so he couldn't entertain both Lila and Harry. So what he did was that he left them in the care of Mr. Gamgee, his friends' Sam father. Before Frodo left, he said 'I hope you both behave and please don't become like Merry and Pippin on mischief, k' and that was the last time they heard from him all morning.

When noon strolled around, Pippin and Merry stopped by to have a little fun with Lila and Harry

"Oyo, Harry! Lila! Come out and play, please!" shouted Merry from the picked fence

"C'mon, please" said Pippin whining with a small smile on his face

"Were coming!" both shouted through the slightly ajar hobbit door.

Both Merry and Pippin faced each other and just smiled.

There day was going to be a fun one but also going to be short one too for both Harry and Lila.

Later that day; back at Frodo's home

"So, how was it at Mr. Gamgee's home, today? For the both of you" said Frodo pouring some hot cider tea for him, Lila, and Harry. (Gandalf had recently left early, for he had some important business to take care of out of the Shire.)

"It was alright, I might say" said Harry grabbing his cup of cider tea from Frodo and took a sip out of it.

"Yea call it sheer boredom, I say." Said Lila while waiting for her cup of cider from Frodo.

"What do you both mean?" said Frodo passing Lila her cup before taking a sip of his hot cider tea.

"What we mean Frodo, is that we were kind of bored all morning before your two cousins came to get us to play outside." Said Harry putting down his cup and looked towards him with a faint smile.

"I should have know sooner" said Frodo "maybe I should have a small talk with my two cousins, shall we"

"Please don't Frodo. Both Merry and Pippin were very well behaved all afternoon. All we did was have a small picnic and play a rounding game of 'follow-the-leader' that's all, k. so don't worry." Said Lila weakly.

"All right, Lila. Since were friends, all three of us plus Sam, Merry, and Pippin, I won't talk to them about what happened this afternoon, alright." Said Frodo smiling at her, Lila nodded with a small smile.

A moment later there was a knock on the front door making all three of them jump.

"Who could that be? Frodo" said Lila

"Don't know?" said Frodo getting up from his chair and went to open the door

A couple minutes went before Frodo and Sorcha entered the room.

"Sorcha, you've returned" said Harry getting up from his chair andgiver hera hug.

Lila also did thesame thing before both of them returned to their chairs.

"So what brings you back to the Shire, Sorcha?" said Lila

"My young Elvin twins, I've return early back to the Shire to tell you some important business but excuses us Mr. Frodo" said Sorcha bowing and leaving.

"Frodo, can you make another batch of hot apple cider tea for use, please when we get back." said Lila moving from her chair, bowed and left the room.

Harry just shook his head, got up, bowed and left also. Frodo wanted to know what was going on between Lila, Harry, and Sorcha but got the idea out of his head and started working on the tea.

"So what important business do you have to tell us? Sorcha" said Harry leaning against the fireplace while Lila sat in armchair rest.

"My young Elvin twins, what am I going to tell you is only between us, understood" she said

Both Lila and Harry nodded together quietly.

"Great evil is approaching. The dark lord Sauron is awakening and will be looking for his most prized possession, a golden ring."

"A golden ring…uh? … Oh yeah. Gandalf was mentioning a golden ring to Frodo, Harry, and I" said Lila "but he 'keeps it safe' but I didn't get him and that was just a couple days ago."

"I see now. So Gandalf knows of it too" said Sorcha quietly

"Do you know anything about, Sorcha?" Said Harry

"All I know about it is that it gives Sauron great power" She said

"Great" both young ones said in union

'Harry! Lila! Your hot apple cider tea is ready. Come and get it before it gets cold' shouted Frodo from the kitchen

"We better listen to Frodo or he will get mad if we don't drink that tea. Well good night Sorcha" said Lila getting up and walk back inside the kitchen

"Good night Sorcha, maybe we can finish this conversation tomorrow." Said Harry before following his young sister.

"Yes, maybe" Sorcha said then left the home.

"What did Miss Sorcha want anyway? Guys" said Frodo watching Harry and Lila enter the room

"We were in the discussion of your ring, Frodo" said Lila plopping down in a chair next to him

"And the odd part was, she knew about it right after we did" said Harry doing the same thing

"I don't understand? I thought you guys, I and Gandalf knew only about the ring" said Frodo shaking his head.

"Don't get me wrong here but I think Sorcha is spy or something" said Lila getting worried

"Lila, don't say that! She's been our mentor for the last three years. Have you not forgotten" snapped Harry

"Yes, I know that but something fishy. I can feel it" she said

"I do not understand you both at all but someday I will. Good night both of you" Said Frodo leaving his chair and was close of leaving before saying "and well discuss this matter in the morning"

"Great"

"Peachy. Just peachy"

Both Lila and Harry looked at each, smiled, put down empty tea cups, and went off to bed with confusing thoughts for the next morning.