The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

often enough in tales. One of his eldercousins (on the Took side), who had beena great traveller, used to imitate it tofrighten him. To hear it out in the forestunder the moon was too much for Bilbo.Even magic rings are not much use againstwolves—especially against the evil packsthat lived under the shadow of the goblininfestedmountains, over the Edge of theWild on the borders of the unknown.Wolves of that sort smell keener thangoblins, and do not need to see you tocatch you!“What shall we do, what shall we do!”he cried. “Escaping goblins to be caughtby wolves!” he said, and it became aproverb, though we now say “out of thefrying-pan into the fire” in the same sort ofuncomfortable situations.