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22I love the films, don't get me wrong, but they are divergent enough from the literary world of Tolkien that I don't think they can be used to provide canonical answers. Also, even if Bilbo aged in Middle Earth, that point alone doesn't tell us anything about his aging or dying in the Undying Lands.– FoxMan2099Commented Aug 27, 2013 at 9:38
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14With all due respect to the films (ie, very little), that makes no sense: Gollum had had the Ring for hundreds of years, so he should have died immediately on losing it if this was what happened. Plus, Tolkien explicitly makes it clear that he would "just stop as he was when he parted with it".– Daniel RosemanCommented Aug 27, 2013 at 9:56
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5The books make very clear that a great span of years passes between Bilbo losing possession of the Ring and his advanced age in Rivendell, and later at the end of ROTK. He advanced more quickly than he should have, but only in the sense that he was "catching up" to his actual age. In other words, he went from looking 50 to looking 131 in the time it took for him to age from 111 to 131.– user44330Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 22:00
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1This doesn't really answer the question. It just shows that in the movie, Bilbo visibly aged much faster without the powers of the One Ring.– TylerHCommented Dec 7, 2017 at 21:39
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