The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

hall below: the spears that were made forthe armies of the great King Bladorthin(long since dead), each had a thriceforgedhead and their shafts were inlaidwith cunning gold, but they were neverdelivered or paid for; shields made forwarriors long dead; the great golden cupof Thror, two-handed, hammered andcarven with birds and flowers whose eyesand petals were of jewels; coats of mailgilded and silvered and impenetrable; thenecklace of Girion, Lord of Dale, made offive hundred emeralds green as grass,which he gave for the arming of his eldestson in a coat of dwarf-linked rings the likeof which had never been made before, forit was wrought of pure silver to the powerand strength of triple steel. But fairest ofall was the great white gem, which the