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The mother of our particular hobbit—what is a hobbit? I suppose hobbits needsome description nowadays, since theyhave become rare and shy of the BigPeople, as they call us. They are (or were)a little people, about half our height, andsmaller than the bearded Dwarves.Hobbits have no beards. There is little orno magic about them, except the ordinaryeveryday sort which helps them todisappear quietly and quickly when largestupid folk like you and me comeblundering along, making a noise likeelephants which they can hear a mile off.They are inclined to be fat in the stomach;they dress in bright colours (chiefly greenand yellow); wear no shoes, because theirfeet grow natural leathery soles and thickwarm brown hair like the stuff on their
heads (which is curly); have long cleverbrown fingers, good-natured faces, andlaugh deep fruity laughs (especially afterdinner, which they have twice a day whenthey can get it). Now you know enough togo on with. As I was saying, the mother ofthis hobbit—of Bilbo Baggins, that is—was the famous Belladonna Took, one ofthe three remarkable daughters of the OldTook, head of the hobbits who livedacross The Water, the small river that ranat the foot of The Hill. It was often said(in other families) that long ago one of theTook ancestors must have taken a fairywife. That was, of course, absurd, butcertainly there was still something notentirely hobbitlike about them, and once ina while members of the Took-clan wouldgo and have adventures. They discreetly
Page 3: THE HOBBITORTHERE ANDBACK AGAINBYJ.
Page 6 and 7: children’s fiction. Written for P
Page 8 and 9: CHAPTER VI: OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN I
Page 10 and 11: ILLUSTRATIONSThror’s MapThe Troll
Page 12 and 13: processing files, and a number of f
Page 15 and 16: Author's NoteThis is a story of lon
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Page 19 and 20: Chapter IAN UNEXPECTED PARTYIn a ho
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Page 25 and 26: Bilbo Baggins was grown up, being a
Page 27 and 28: grass was very green. But Gandalf l
Page 29 and 30: hobbit without saying anything, til
Page 31 and 32: already that Mr. Baggins was not qu
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Page 35 and 36: said with a low bow.“Bilbo Baggin
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Page 39 and 40: Bilbo, remembering his manners this
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Page 45 and 46: house. By the time he had got all t
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Page 49 and 50: Then they went back, and found Thor
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Page 57 and 58: plain Mr. Baggins of Bag-End, Under
Page 59 and 60: “We are met to discuss our plans,
Page 61 and 62: “Excitable little fellow,” said
Page 63 and 64: Then Mr. Baggins turned the handle
Page 65 and 66: there was a man of the sort in thes
Page 67 and 68: much,” said Thorin disappointedly
Page 69 and 70: a large one of the Country Round wi
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“All the same, I should like it a
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days for us, and the poorest of us
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wandering about, and it saved my li
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had got away, they told me to hold
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the paper, and he never told me you
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than big enough tasks for you!”
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wretched breakfast. The Tookishness
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elieved after all to think that the
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paper).This is what he read:“Thor
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Gandalf’s hands, and running as f
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thought of him, I daren’t think.
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ehind the others in a very muddy tr
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“Just when a wizard would havebee
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while, they fell to arguing. Some s
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find out all about that light, and
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not drawing-room fashion at all, at
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off without their noticing him. Oth
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efore they throttled him.“A burra
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“Not till he says what he means b
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No sooner did Tom see Balin come in
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outside in the shadows some way off
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him.It was just then that Gandalf c
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next time.“Who shall we sit on fi
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underground before dawn, or they go
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though they all pushed while Gandal
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these parts and days; but when we c
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friends of mine from Rivendell.”
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slippery. When they got to the top
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start at the beginning again (if yo
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them green pleasant places to look
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Rivendell. The air grew warmer as t
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No knowing, no knowingWhat brings M
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Then off they went into another son
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iver. It was flowing fast and noisi
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and ever—even supposing a wish wo
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time came to midsummer eve, and the
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approve of dwarves and their love o
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setting sun with the last light of
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Chapter IVOVER HILL AND UNDERHILLTh
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they did not dare to sing or talk t
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happen, and he hardly dared to hope
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were standing with their heads down
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So it proved on this occasion.Soon
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It seemed quite a fair size, but no
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knows where to.At that he woke up w
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horribly stuffy. The goblins were v
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ho! my lad! The general meaning of
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There in the shadows on a large fla
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to defend themselves.“Who are the
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hospitable mountains,” said Thori
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The yells and yammering, croaking,j
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steady themselves with. Not for a l
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they began to hear goblin noises an
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dropped their torches and gave one
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Chapter VRIDDLES IN THE DARKWhen Bi
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could he think what had happened; o
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“Go back?” he thought. “No go
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notice, except to hurry past for fe
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slimy than fish. Even in the tunnel
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no reason to go that way—unless t
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afterwards.“I am Mr. Bilbo Baggin
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What has roots as nobody sees,Is ta
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“Half a moment!” cried Bilbo, w
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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,C
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suck—“Eggses!” he hissed. “
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Bilbo’s toes.“Ugh!” he said,
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know it, but he could not think of
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“What have I got in my pocket?”
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did not feel at all sure how the ga
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We must go and get some things firs
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usually he hid it in a hole in the
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my precious is lost!”“What’s
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questions,” Bilbo replied, “the
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suddenly he struck his toes on a sn
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Suddenly Gollum sat down and begant
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gollum!”“Then let’s stop talk
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He peered in, and shrank back. “B
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sudden understanding, a pity mixed
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lead you to worse things.”The pas
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Yes, they saw him. Whether it was a
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dodged this way and that, was knock
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Chapter VIOUT OF THE FRYING-PANINTO
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sound like goblins; so he crept for
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chosen someone with more sense. “
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and slipping off the ring.Bless me,
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Gollum.“And then I couldn’t thi
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it. He wanted to know how the wizar
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emember). The rest we all know—ex
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Thursday, and it was Monday night o
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path disappeared. The bushes, and t
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“I daresay,” grumbled Bombur;
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empty sack.”“A bit further,”
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“Up the trees quick!” cried Gan
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porter?”“He’ll be eaten if we
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More and more kept coming in. They
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caused by the dwarves and Bilbo and
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efore that, they said, goblin soldi
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they were soon all in flames. Very
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folk crept down the hillsides from
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leaping and howling round the trunk
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Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,the
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So dwarves shall die,and light the
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talons tore at goblin faces. Other
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touched here and there with the lig
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size of a hobbit, and are up in his
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the eagles. As Bilbo listened to th
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weak little voice that nobody heard
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Chapter VIIQUEER LODGINGSThe next m
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than flying?”Bilbo would have lik
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gave them), Bilbo never saw them ag
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which we should have been following
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asked Bilbo as he went along at the
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tippet, muff, nor any other such un
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Bilbo and the dwarves had now plent
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wizard to the dwarves; “and when
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was clothed in a tunic of wool down
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advice. I may say we have had rathe
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Here they sat on wooden benches whi
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lands at all. We were crossing by t
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“As soon as we were asleep,” we
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hall, which was crowded with goblin
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But now please get on with the tale
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since goblins can count, I suppose
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animal noises turned into talk. The
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There they had a supper, or a dinne
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magic or not, it seemed to Bilbo th
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The grasses hissed, their tasselsbe
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low and he fell asleep. Yet in the
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moving off to find something to eat
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“I have been picking out bear-tra
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down here? We shall all be caught a
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of their story was true; but he had
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was a fierce enemy. But now he was
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neither drink of, nor bathe in; for
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north and then bore to the north-we
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iver to the south and scour all the
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herds of red deer browsing or sitti
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The dwarves were inclined to grumbl
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Baggins with you. I have told you b
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morning as at night, and very secre
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tales of that black sorcerer. I don
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Chapter VIIIFLIES AND SPIDERSThey w
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places on the forest-floor; but wha
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ound them, and sometimes pairs ofye
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and they shot no more squirrels.The
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“though of course I can’t be su
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pulled in vain. Kili came to his he
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they saw that it must have stuck in
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sprang over him. He had stumbled,th
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dwarves had leaped to their feet an
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they see growing in the wood, onlyf
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climb a tree and see if he can get
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all round him a sea of dark green,
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and ever in all directions! Whateve
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eat, he sat down and wept, for he f
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“I’m just going to lie here and
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ecause Bombur kept on describing al
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hopelessly lost, at least till morn
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Hobbit! You dratted hobbit! Hi! hob
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than before; and at the head of a l
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moments. But he soon made up his mi
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his sword right in the eyes. Then i
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cries for help had come in the nigh
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“They’re not as fat as they mig
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Bilbo saw that the moment had come
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swinging towards the hobbit, flingi
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stamped. Practically all the spider
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proper web, only great strands of d
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would tumble thump to the ground a
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had been constantly pinched and pok
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for them. How it darted to and fro!
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“I am going to disappear,” he s
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above them and throwing down their
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vanishing business carefully explai
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But there was nothing, nothing at a
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lights went out he fell like a ston
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In a great cave some miles within t
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His people neither mined nor worked
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shut him in one of the inmost caves
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hundreds of red stars. Out leaped W
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with trees. There the great beeches
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The Elvenking's Gate.The prisoners
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and drink, but not to be allowed to
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discovered the ways out of the wood
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to have a word with the chief of th
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all trusted Bilbo. Just what Gandal
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oof had been cut away and covered w
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For some time Bilbo sat and thought
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ut for the king’s feasts only, an
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none of them any too nimble, what w
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you all in again, and you can sit t
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the butler and give warning if they
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touches to the packing, and hoping
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Then they drank once round and beca
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suddenly discovered the weak point
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Where the forest wide and dimStoops
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could hear the elves still singing
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emember the dwarves. He managed tok
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suddenly wide, and there it was joi
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There is no need to tell you much o
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There was a mighty pushing of poles
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Chapter XA WARM WELCOMEThe day grew
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nothing of the poor dwarves underne
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Baggins shivering on the barrels, i
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must once have been a great deep ro
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coming of the Dragon, and the fall
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the shore, after they had gone and
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answer. These were unpacked and hel
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service once more, Mr. Baggins. No
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ack. I wish to see the Master of yo
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the tall piles on which were built
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from one to the other. The Elvenkin
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All sorrow fail and sadnessAt the M
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Some of the songs were old ones; bu
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utler. Nothing of course was ever s
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were frauds who would sooner or lat
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Chapter XION THE DOORSTEPIn two day
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him; the others were some way ahead
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Before setting out to search the we
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vapour and the water, and every now
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their weary way back to the camp. O
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they were seeking. Fili and Kili an
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fragments of broken spells of openi
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In the meanwhile some of them explo
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discovery of the path, but now they
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urglar doing for us? Since he has g
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crack behind him. There on the grey
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should fade, the dwarves rushed to
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Chapter XIIINSIDE INFORMATIONFor a
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think I shall refuse. Perhaps I hav
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pale sky barred with black when the
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him. “I have absolutely no use fo
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lies the great bottom-most cellar o
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the splendour, the lust, the glory
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ut Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, ga
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There was a breath of strange air i
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There they would have all been kill
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flame, beating his great wings with
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the theft, not if a thousand years
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that you ever made the vast extent
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espect little Bilbo. Now he had bec
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stepped back and blessed the luck o
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number.”“Lovely titles!” snee
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“Very well, O Barrel-rider!” he
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flashed across him, he trembled, an
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and finding the entrance. He had ne
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and their like is not in the world
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idea was to get away. “Well, I re
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again: it had all been singed and f
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are any people left there that trou
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All the while they talked the thrus
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delayed shutting the door—it seem
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hall below: the spears that were ma
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Darkness grew deeper and he greweve
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monstrous crow, down the wind towar
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Chapter XIIINOT AT HOMEIn the meanw
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lightening of the heart, as if a he
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was not a gleam of light—unless,
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else out of them. But in the end, w
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Ever as he climbed, the same white
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doors at the further side, and ther
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Anyway I expect it is safe for them
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them and struck them; and being mag
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hoard than the dwarves did. Long be
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down wide echoing ways, and turneda
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made straight and deep by the cunni
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seems to be late morning,” he sai
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attled the precious stones in his p
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a breakfast as they could, chiefly
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a while, and can see much without b
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Chapter XIVFIRE AND WATERNow if you
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“Which king?” said another with
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destroyed, before the roar of Smaug
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age, taking no heed to turn his sca
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ablaze and wither every field and p
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arrow! I have saved you to the last
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came the voices of the people of Es
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“Girion was lord of Dale, not kin
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ecompense of our damage, and aid fo
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Now everywhere Bard went he foundta
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things with wings that dwelt on the
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days much used to the marches and t
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Mountain. It was thus that in eleve
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wanderings; and these are birds tha
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secret news, and were rewarded with
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chief of the great ravens of the Mo
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dwarves; for they are homeless and
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“Back now to the Mountain!” cri
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wild far down the banks of the Runn
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There came a night when suddenly th
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faintly the fragrance of woodland f
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sleep,In hollow halls beneath the f
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eached him. But Bilbo’s heart fel
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his people. They aided you in yourd
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their inheritance you would have pa
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portion Bard will himself contribut
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Chapter XVIA THIEF IN THE NIGHTNow
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host that besets you; and even if t
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“I would give a good deal for the
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across when he missed his footing o
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your chiefs as quick as may be. I h
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“Quite so,” said Bilbo. “I se
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“This is the Arkenstone of Thrain
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Nothing they could say would stop h
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was soon fast asleep forgetting all
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the messenger.About midday the bann
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house—if there is need to ask suc
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dwarves are sometimes politer in wo
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withhold the share of the reward.An
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hurried on through the night, and s
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shall fight you!” They meant to p
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“Fools!” laughed Bard, “to co
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wings.“Halt!” cried Gandalf, wh
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had gathered in secret ways; and in
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flying lower, over the shoulder of
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put on his ring early in the busine
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ending the dead and the wounded.Vic
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leapt from their eyes. In the gloom
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sand. Their friends could not help
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sight that made his heart leap, dar
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Chapter XVIIITHE RETURN JOURNEYWhen
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stones?” said the man halting and
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it nearly was disastrous. But other
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not, he wept until his eyes were re
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on either side of the valley could
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North perished on that day, and the
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gathered to his throne in the ancie
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eally it is a relief to me. How on
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merrier for many a long day. The dr
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O hobbit?” said the king.“Well,
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those regions and ruled a wide land
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Chapter XIXTHE LAST STAGEIt was on
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The stars are far brighterThan gems
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and again he would open one eye, an
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is in flower,And bright are the win
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dragon—yet we thank you,” theya
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journey.This was much as it had bee
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the land and of the trees were as w
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There was a great commotion, and pe
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his silver spoons mysteriouslydisap
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heads and touched their foreheads a
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and dwarves and men.
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have turned out to be true, after a
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The Letters of J.R.R. TolkienFinn a
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