Happily ever afterwards (to the end of his days)

A wink and a smile warm with welcome, and that’s all for now - but Pippin could dance for joy just to see Bilbo's dear old face again, to find a piece of home here when they have been so lost.

There are stories to be told, that’s for sure, and he would rather listen than tell, he thinks. So he’ll wait and hope for a night soon to come when they can cast off all the cares and the years, and remember Bag End by firelight, in days when they knew the end of the tale before it even began.