Gandalf the Grey, Aragorn son of Arathorn, and the rest of these gentleman having asked me to write down the whole particualrs of the journey of the Fellowship, from beginning to end, keeping nothing back, but the bearings of the Havens, as that is still left unknown, I go back to the time when my old uncle Bilbo, still lived at Bag End, and the grey old wiazrd named Gandalf, first took up with us Baggins hobbits.