Re-reading the Lord of the Rings, Chapter 60

As I said, the last chapter was about the desire to unstretch and the purpose of this chapter is to set a lower limit to that desire, for it foreshadows that there's still something to be done in the Shire and it's not Gandalf, who is going to do it, since his job was to bring freedom and freedom means responsibility and now that he's brought it, Gandalf is preparing himself for a less heroic and more philosophical existence and goes to chat with Tom Bombadil.