[JenB]

Hey, MozartLover, don't feel too bad about saying you like Harry Potter... I've read all the books (family thing, we read the new one aloud together when it comes out) and I enjoy them; they're nowhere near as good as people claim, but hey... at least they aren't by Robert Jordan.

It's a lovely Sunday here, hope you guys are having as nice weather! Anyone forget about the time change?

[2Jedismom]

Hey All-Knowing-One! I have a question I brought up in the FR chat but got bugged by a disruptor before we could really discuss it. What do you think?

In the prologue, in the part "Ordering of the Shire" Bilbo doesn't reveal how much of his considerable wealth he actually has...not even to "Frodo, his favouite nephew". Then, at the beginning of Chapter One, A Long Expected Party, it says Bilbo had no close friends until some of his younger cousins began to grow up, the oldest and Bilbo's favourite was Frodo. Then later on in the first chapter, the Gaffer is at The Ivy Bush and is explaining how Frodo is Bilbo's first and second cousin. Then, during the speech at The Party, Bilbo refers to Frodo as his "heir and nephew".

Now I have tried to understand the family tree at the end of ROTK and can't figure it out. What do you think?