The morning after the Fox encounters the three hobbits, Frodo wakes quite sore. "'Walking for pleasure! Why didn't I drive?' he thought, as he usually did at the beginning of an expedition." I used to think that on previous expeditions he had started by driving. This time it occurred to me that he generally always walked, but at the beginning he regretted it and wished that he had driven. I expect that an expedition would something on a much grander scale than a day-hike or a multi-day jaunt through the Shire. I wonder what other expeditions Frodo had undertaken.
I suppose his journey from Buckland as a lad may have been an expedition of sorts, but it seems like there have been others. Frodo tells Sam that one meets Elves sometimes in the Woody End in spring and autumn, which is a couple of days walk from Bag End. Perhaps this is the extent of his expeditions. But the Elves say that they have not seen hobbits in a wood at night (as the Fox observed) since Bilbo went away. Maybe Frodo's expeditions were with Bilbo, before he went away.
I suppose his journey from Buckland as a lad may have been an expedition of sorts, but it seems like there have been others. Frodo tells Sam that one meets Elves sometimes in the Woody End in spring and autumn, which is a couple of days walk from Bag End. Perhaps this is the extent of his expeditions. But the Elves say that they have not seen hobbits in a wood at night (as the Fox observed) since Bilbo went away. Maybe Frodo's expeditions were with Bilbo, before he went away.
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