The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

sudden understanding, a pity mixed withhorror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: aglimpse of endless unmarked days withoutlight or hope of betterment, hard stone,cold fish, sneaking and whispering. Allthese thoughts passed in a flash of asecond. He trembled. And then quitesuddenly in another flash, as if lifted by anew strength and resolve, he leaped.No great leap for a man, but a leap inthe dark. Straight over Gollum’s head hejumped, seven feet forward and three inthe air; indeed, had he known it, he onlyjust missed cracking his skull on the lowarch of the passage.Gollum threw himself backwards, andgrabbed as the hobbit flew over him, buttoo late: his hands snapped on thin air, andBilbo, falling fair on his sturdy feet, sped