The event
Bilbo leaves the Shire and gives the One Ring to Frodo.
Consequences
Frodo becomes the Ring-bearer; Gandalf begins his long investigation.
Participants
CharacterBilbo Baggins
A respectable Shire hobbit who is swept into the quest of Erebor and becomes the first hobbit to bear the One Ring.
CharacterFrodo Baggins
The hobbit of the Shire who carried the One Ring across Middle-earth to Mount Doom and destroyed it.
CharacterGandalf
A Wizard of the Istari, keeper of the Elven-ring Narya, and the chief architect of the resistance to Sauron.
Place
Artifacts
Sources
The Lord of the Rings · 1954–55
Three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.