The downfall of the hobbit-folk

[davem]

There's also this passage from one version of Tolkien's unpublished Epilogue to LotR (downloadable here

‘No, dear,’ said Sam. ‘But he’s coming north again, as he hasn’t done since you was a mite. But now his house is ready. He won’t come into the Shire, because he’s given orders that no Big Folk are to enter the land again after those Ruffians, and he won’t break his own rules. But he will ride to the Bridge. And he’s sent a very special invitation to every one of us, every one by name.’