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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
No you're right, 50 years I believe.
That's why Bilbo doesn't look old as fata in this movie. I haven't read them, but these are the movies where he'll actually first find the ring. I think anyway, or would assume. Having never read them it is all wild guesses on my part, but I know a dragon is a villain.
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You would be correct in all that. Of course how Bilbo comes by the ring changed in later versions of The Hobbit as Tolkien had started writing The Lord of the Rings and the original version didn't work with the character that Gollum was to be in the new books. Tolkien ret-conned this change by saying that "The Hobbit" is the tale as told by Bilbo, and even then the influence of the ring made him change the story of how he acquired it in the first place, a clear indication of the power it could hold over all beings.
One thing that I don't think the LOTR movies showed well (specifically The Fellowship of the Ring) was just how much time passed between Frodo being given the ring and when Gandalf returns to tell him he has discovered what the ring is. I believe the time frame is something like 20 years. In the movies it just appears to be a few weeks and he's back.
Edit: It's 17 years between Bilbo leaving the Shire and Gandalf coming back to tell Frodo to leave with the ring. This would make Frodo 50 years old at that point.