The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

Bilbo had never seen or imaginedanything of the kind. They were high up ina narrow place, with a dreadful fall into adim valley at one side of them. There theywere sheltering under a hanging rock forthe night, and he lay beneath a blanket andshook from head to toe. When he peepedout in the lightning-flashes, he saw thatacross the valley the stone-giants wereout, and were hurling rocks at one anotherfor a game, and catching them, and tossingthem down into the darkness where theysmashed among the trees far below, orsplintered into little bits with a bang. Thencame a wind and a rain, and the windwhipped the rain and the hail about inevery direction, so that an overhangingrock was no protection at all. Soon theywere getting drenched and their ponies