Journal 2

Entry 2

I’ve reached the end of Book 1. Frodo can’t wait long enough for Gandalf to escape and join him on his journey to destroy the ring, so Frodo and his posse of nosy friends Sam, Pippin, and Merry leave the Shire. They don’t know to get to the cracks of doom, but they know they have to leave the Shire and look for Gandalf. They narrowly escape a black rider (the black riders want to return the ring to its rightful owner) and they reach Frodo’s new house.  The next day they continue looking for Gandalf. They go to Bree. It takes lots of chapters  to describe their journey to Bree because they get lost, the find a crazy old man Tom who saves them a couple times. I can see why they left this part out of the movie because it takes a long time.
Once they get to Bree at night, they go to an inn, and Frodo is being silly in the common room and slips on the ring and Frodo disappears in front of all the onlookers. Strider is in the back of the room watching this, and he’s a Ranger, a friend of Gandalf, and he knows why Frodo disappeared.  As soon as Frodo took the ring off, he reappeared. The posse of nosy friends gets a letter from the innkeeper from Gandalf, instructing them to look for Aragorn  - who turns out to be the same person as Strider.
Next they go to Rivendell. On the way, Frodo is stabbed by the Witch King but Aragorn helps them escape.
At the big river, the elves assist their escape by drowning the black riders. And the book closes with Frodo in poor shape.