Smoke and mirrors my friends, smoke and mirrors. Bilbo helps kill a dragon and returns home a millionaire. The Lord of the Rings continues with Bilbo ditching town and leaving all of his possessions to his nephew Frodo. They get help from a Forest Ranger and meet up with some elves, dwarves, and humans. Sam gets very excited.
More shit happens.
Gandalf falls down a big well. Frodo and Sam go to destroy the ring while the rest of the rag tag army goes to defend some stupid country whose king is as pathetic as John Tesh fans and deserves to be conquered. The Ranger takes political action and overthrows the dumb old king as Frodo, stalked by Golum, destroys the ring in the nick of time. In the end every one makes up and set off in these fancy schmancy boats to conquer some other unfortunate country. He had a tremendous gift for storytelling and a life full of interesting stories.