The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

and ever—even supposing a wish wouldhave taken him right back to his hobbitholewithout trouble. Yet there is little totell about their stay.The master of the house was an elffriend—oneof those people whose fatherscame into the strange stories before thebeginning of History, the wars of the evilgoblins and the elves and the first men inthe North. In those days of our tale therewere still some people who had bothelves and heroes of the North forancestors, and Elrond the master of thehouse was their chief.He was as noble and as fair in face asan elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wiseas a wizard, as venerable as a king ofdwarves, and as kind as summer. Hecomes into many tales, but his part in the