

They also had a weekly tradition of taking long walking trips together from Hobbiton to Michel Delving and Buckland all throughout the Shire. The two grew very close in the following years Frodo, treated by his adopted guardian as he were his own son, learned much of the Elvish language during his time with Bilbo, as well as much of the lore of Middle-earth. Bilbo took Frodo to live with him in his home at Bag End and made him his heir. An only child, Frodo stayed in Brandy Hall until his 99-year-old "uncle" Bilbo, his father's second cousin, adopted him in TA 2989. In TA 2980, when Frodo was only 12 years old, his parents drowned in a boating accident on the Brandywine River.


They would often steal mushrooms from Farmer Maggot's farm Bamfurlong. Frodo was known as something of a rascal, befriending Meriadoc (Merry) Brandybuck and Peregrin (Pippin) Took and causing trouble wherever they went. Much of Frodo's youth was spent at Brandy Hall in Buckland, the ancestral home of the Brandybuck family, including his mother ( Primula Brandybuck). 5.1 Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings.1.2 Coming of age & flight from the Shire.
