Story Outline(s):

“The story of Bilbo Baggins, as we all know it, has its beginning at Bags End. However, with the Company of dwarves, they did not imagine that they would be faced with a road full of peril and danger, just to make it to Hobbiton. In this most unexpected and rather peculiar prologue, we will accompany some of the dwarves, as they try to make their way to Bilbo Baggins’ green hobbit-door.

Dwalin and Balin enter Hobbiton in hopes of not drawing attention on their way, by making their way through the shadows. However, it seems that there is one curious hobbit that spots them and decides to bombard the two dwarves with questions. Balin, the older, wiser brother of the two, knows the importance of the mission and tries to avoid the hobbit. Dwalin, however, decides to make a quick exit, and leave Balin behind to deal with the nosy hobbit. Aware of how the hobbit culture works, Balin proceeds to intentionally offend him in order to be left alone, but this does not end as planned as the hobbit is quite unusual, and engage in an argument. In the end, Balin finally manages to escape from the nosy hobbit and make his way to Bilbo’s cosy hobbit-hole.

Fili and Kili are in Hobbiton a bit earlier than they’d planned. However, the two brothers, always merry and full of adventure, decide to take a moment of respite in one of the taverns to enjoy a smaller feast before proceeding to Bilbo’s hobbit-hole, where they’d seen the mark on his door. They proceed to drink a few jugs of mead, but as they are ready to leave, they realize that they’d left their penny outside of the tavern. Fili decides to go and grab their money-pouch, but is abruptly stopped by the host of the inn, believing the dwarf is trying to leave without paying. The hobbit host, angered by this outrageous attempt, decides to try and engage the two dwarves in a fight. Fili and Kili, however, believe that due to the hobbit’s small size, it would be unfair, yet the hobbit persists in his attempt. Without much of a choice, they knock him out and flee through Hobbiton to Bilbo’s hobbit-hole.

The story of Dori, Nori and Ori starts at the city of Thorin’s Halls in the Blue Mountains and tells the tale of their journey from their home, to Bilbo’s hobbit hole in The Shire. They travel through mountains and across river and meadow, and along the way they encounter hospitable villages and homely taverns and inns, but also perilous paths, home to much less hospitable creatures.

Bofur, his brother Bombur, his cousin Bifur and Thorin Oakenshield himself join forces as they traverse down the southern range of the Blue Mountains in order to meet in Hobbiton. However, the journey towards The Shire, which has always been of peace and delight previously, surrounded by its green, lush hills and small forest meadows, was now attempting to take the lives of the dwarves. The company of four now have to make their way through a peculiar, ruined castle that seems to have “appeared out of the fog”, unable to make their way around the castle. But how did the ruins come to appear there, in the middle of nowhere? And what could possibly be inside? 

On a much more perilous journey than any might’ve expected, what could possibly have happened to them before they all reached the Gathering at Bag End?”