No More Hobbits?

[Elrian]

Originally posted by Rosa Underhill:
<STRONG>He did? How...? Wha...? Am confused now...

I know Christopher Tolkien compiled "The Silmarillion" and other works by his father and had them published but...are you saying he's written some original-ish Middle-earth works of his own? (I'd be very happy to hear that he was!)

I read on this board somewhere a quote from I don't know what of Gandalf's. He was talking about Bilbo, Frodo and the Ring and it wasn't anything from LotR. Anyone know where he might have been having a conversation like that? It struck me that he must be in Valinor or Eressea or someplace like when he said it...</STRONG>

Christopher Tolkien compiled all the variations of book chapter, characters and such of his father's into the Histories of Middle Earth. He didn't attempt to do his own writing, to my knowledge. The History of the Lord of the Rings books in that series is the many variations of chapters that JRR wrote while doing LOTR, and the different Hobbit characters he'd switched to come up with the final chapters. Striders character was originally a Hobbit, after a few name changes (Peregrin being one of them) the character became that of a man.

Could it have been from Mithadan's fanfic? Tales from Tol Eressea, or Conversations in Avallone that you read that quote in Rosa?