The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!