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Ranger and hangs about Bree. (He also warns Tom Bombadil.)
Reason of wooden shoes - no need in this case because Aragorn is
a man. Hence there is no need for Gandalf... The cache of food
at Weathertop is Aragorn's. Aragorn steers them to Weathertop as a
good lookout.
But how could Trotter miss Gandalf?
What delayed Gandalf? Black Riders or other hunters. Treebeard.
Aragorn did not miss Gandalf and arranged tryst on Weathertop.

At the end is written very emphatically and twice underlined: NO
0 D O.
The likeness of what is said of Trotter/Aragorn here (he was a man
of Elrond's race and household, he became a friend of Bilbo's, and he
'pretends he is a Ranger') to the proposal at the end of $1 (Trotter was
'a disguised elf', one of the Rivendell scouts, a friend of Bilbo's in
Rivendell, and he 'pretends to be a ranger') may suggest that the one
arose directly from the other. On the other hand, my father had still
not finally decided the question; for on the reverse of this piece of
paper and undoubtedly at the same time he wrote:

Alternative function for Trotter. Trotter is Peregrin Boffin that Bilbo
took away with him or who ran off with Bilbo - but this rather
duplicates things - unless you cut out all Frodo's friends.
If Trotter is Peregrin Boffin then Bilbo must go off quietly and
Peregrin simply vanish about the same time.

This is followed by a brief passage sketching a rough narrative on
these lines:

There was peace in Hobbiton for many years. Gandalf came seldom
and then very quietly and mainly to visit Bilbo. He seemed to have
given up trying to persuade even [?young] Tooks to go off on mad
adventures out of the Shire. Then suddenly things began to happen.
Bilbo Baggins disappeared again - that is hardly exact: he walked
off without saying a word except to Gandalf (and to his nephews
Peregrin and Frodo, it may be supposed). It was a great blow to
Frodo. He found Bilbo had left everything he possessed to himself
and Peregrin. But Peregrin also disappeared, leaving a will in which
his share



Here these notes end, the idea abandoned. Perhaps it was here that
Trotter ceased finally to be a hobbit, Peregrin Boffin.

(3) A page of clear notes in ink, agreeing in part with features of $1
and $2, is headed optimistically Final decisions. Oct. 8 1939. This was
subsequently emended in pencil, but I give it first as it was written.

(1) General plot as at present. Bilbo vanishes at party (but all that