The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

y, and it seemed supper-time would soondo the same. There were moths flutteringabout, and the light became very dim, forthe moon had not risen. Bilbo’s ponybegan to stumble over roots and stones.They came to the edge of a steep fall in theground so suddenly that Gandalf’s horsenearly slipped down the slope.“Here it is at last!” he called, and theothers gathered round him and lookedover the edge. They saw a valley farbelow. They could hear the voice ofhurrying water in a rocky bed at thebottom; the scent of trees was in the air;and there was a light on the valley-sideacross the water.Bilbo never forgot the way theyslithered and slipped in the dusk down thesteep zig-zag path into the secret valley of