He set out from Rivendell for Mount Doom only 17 years later. All that time Gandalf was gathering information about the Ring.
Thus the Ring was destroyed when Frodo was already past 50.
In the film adaptation, all of this took no more than a couple of weeks, three at most.
In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
