"GL1" - читать интересную книгу автора (vol06)

3. The reference is to the conclusion of The Hobbit, when Gandalf and
Balin called at Bag End 'some years afterwards'.
4. At this point a present to Inigo Baggins of a case of hairbrushes was
mentioned, but struck out, evidently at the time of writing, since the
present to another Inigo (Grubb-Took) immediately follows.
5. Various changes were made to the names and other details in this
passage, not all of which were taken up in the third version (the
second ends before this point). Mungo Took's gift (an umbrella) was
specified; and Caramella Took was changed from niece to cousin.
Gorboduc Grubb became Orlando Grubb. Pencilled proposals for
the name of Mrs Sackville-Baggins, replacing Amalda, are Lonicera

(Honeysuckle) and Griselda, and her husband Sago (named in the
next paragraph of the text) became Cosmo.
6. Cf. the end of The Hobbit: 'His gold and silver was mostly [after-
wards changed to largely] spent in presents, both useful and extrava-
gant'. The illegible word here might possibly be arms, but it does not
look like it, and cf. the same passage in The Hobbit: 'His coat of mail
was arranged on a stand in the hall (until he lent it to a Museum).'
*
Writing of this draft in his Biography, Humphrey Carpenter says

(p. 185):
The reason for his disappearance, as given in this first draft, is that
Bilbo 'had not got any money or jewels left' and was going off in search
of more dragon-gold. At this point the first version of the opening
chapter breaks off, unfinished.
But it may be argued that it was in fact finished: for the next completed
draft of the chapter (the third - the second seems certainly unfinished,
and breaks off at a much earlier point) ends only a very little further on in
the narrative (p. 34), and shortly before the end has:
But not all of them had said good-bye to him. That is easily explained,
and soon will be.
And the explanation is not given, but reserved for the next chapter. Nor
is it made so explicit in the first draft that Bilbo was 'going off in search of
more dragon-gold'. That lack of money was a reason for leaving his home
is certainly the case, but a sudden Tookish disgust with hobbit dulness
and conventionality is also emphasized; and in fact there is not so much
as a hint of what Bilbo was planning to do. It may well be that on 19
December 1937 my father had no idea. The rapidly-written conclusion
of the text strongly suggests uncertain direction (and indeed he had said
earlier in the chapter that the story was going to be about one of Bilbo's
descendants).
But while there is no sign of Gandalf, most of the essentials and many
of the details of the actual party as it is described in The Fellowship of the
Ring (FR) emerge right at the beginning, and even some phrases
remained. The Chubbs (or Chubbses, p. 13), the Boffinses, and the
Proudfoots now appear - the families named Burrowes (Burrows in FR)
and Grubb had been mentioned at the end of The Hobbit, in the names of
the auctioneers at the sale of Bag End; and the hobbits' land is for the first