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| | The One Ring: Gollum / Bilbo & Ring Ageing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Bilbo hands off the ring in 3001 FA, and we next see him in 3018 FA, at the age of 68, but he doesn't seem old (sleepiness, loss of short term memory) until after the ring is unmade (3019 FA). |
 | | Bilbo was fated to find the Ring, but it was not preordained that he should do anything with it. |
 | | Bilbo was scarred by the ring, as Frodo was, and he was not "whole" without it, even tho' he did not suffer the damage Gollum did (and the reason there, if Gandalf's idea is correct, is because Bilbo began his ownership of the ring with MERCY. |
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