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Wilderland beyond. And it is a deal of a way even from the other side of them to the Lonely Mountain in the East Where Smaug lies on our treasure." "O!" said Bilbo, and just at that moment he felt more fared than he ever remembered feeling before. He was thinking once again of his comfortable chair before the fire in his favourite sitting-room in his <strong>hobbit</strong>-hole, and of the kettle singing. Not for the last time! Now Gandalf led the way. "We must not miss the road, or we shall be done for," he said. "We need food, for one thing, and rest in reasonable safetyalso it is very necessary to tackle the Misty Mountains by the proper path, or else you will get lost in them, and have to come back and start at the beginning again (if you ever get back at all)." They asked him where he was making for, and he answered: "You are come to the very edge of the Wild, as some of you may know. Hidden somewhere ahead of us is the fair valley of Rivendell where Elrond lives in the Last Homely House. I sent a message by my friends, and we are expected." That sounded nice and comforting, but they had not got there yet, and it was not so easy as it sounds to find the Last Homely House west of the Mountains. There seemed to be no trees and no valleys and no hills to break the ground in front of them, only one vast slope going slowly up and up to meet the feet of the nearest mountain, a wide land the colour of heather and crumbling rock, with patches and slashes of grass-green and moss-green showing where water might be. Morning passed, afternoon came; but in all the silent waste there was no sign of any dwelling. They were growing anxious, for they now saw that the house might be hidden almost anywhere between them and the mountains. They came on unexpected valleys, narrow with deep sides, that opened suddenly at their feet, and they looked down surprised to see trees below them and running water at the bottom. There were gullies that they could almost leap over; but very deep with waterfalls in them. There were dark ravines that one could neither jump nor climb into. There were bogs, some of them green pleasant places to look at with flowers growing bright and tall; but a pony that walked there with a pack on its back would never have come out again. It was indeed a much wider land from the ford to the mountains than ever you would have guessed. Bilbo was astonished. The only path was marked with white stones some of which were small, and others were half covered with moss or heather. Altogether it was a very slow business following the track, even guided by Gandalf, who seemed to know his way about pretty well. His head and beard wagged this way and that as he looked for the stones, and they followed his head, but they seemed no nearer to the end of the search when the day began to fail. Tea-time had long gone by, and it seemed suppertime would soon do the same. There were moths fluttering about, and the light became very dim, for the moon had not risen. Bilbo's pony began to stumble over roots and stones. They came to the edge of a steep fall in the ground so suddenly that Gandalf s horse nearly slipped down the slope. "Here it is at last!" he called, and the others gathered round him and looked over the edge. They saw a valley far below. They could hear the voice of hurrying water in rocky bed at the bottom; the scent of trees was in the air; and there was a light on the valleyside across the water. Bilbo never forgot the way they slithered and slipped in the dusk down the steep zig-zag path into the secret valley of Rivendell. The air grew warmer as they got lower, and the smell of the pine-trees made him drowsy, so that every now and again he nodded and nearly fell off, or bumped his nose on the pony's neck. Their spirits rose as they went down and down. The trees changed to beech and oak, and hire was a comfortable feeling in the twilight. The last green had almost faded out of the grass, when they came at length to an open glade not far above the banks of the stream.
"Hrnmm! it smells like elves!" thought Bilbo, and he looked up at the stars. They were burning bright and blue. Just then there came a burst of song like laughter in the trees: "O! What are you doing, And where are you going? Your ponies need shoeing! The river is flowing! O! tra-la-la-lally here down in the valley! O! What are you seeking, And where are you making? The faggots are reeking, The bannocks are baking! O! tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha! O! Will you be staying, Or will you be flying? Your ponies are straying! The daylight is dying! To fly would be folly, To stay would be jolly And listen and hark Till the end of the dark to our tune ha! ha.'" So they laughed and sang in the trees; and pretty fair nonsense I daresay you think it. Not that they would care they would only laugh all the more if you told them so. They were elves of course. Soon Bilbo caught glimpses of them as the darkness deepened. He loved elves, though he seldom met them; but he was a little frightened of them too. Dwarves don't get on well with them. Even decent enough dwarves like Thorin and his friends think them foolish (which is a very foolish thing to think), or get annoyed with them. For some elves tease them and laugh at them, and most of all at their beards. "Well, well!" said a voice. "Just look! Bilbo the <strong>hobbit</strong> on a pony, my dear! Isn't it delicious!" "Most astonishing wonderful!" Then off they went into another song as ridiculous as the one I have written down in full. At last one, a tall young fellow, came out from the trees and bowed to Gandalf and to Thorin. "Welcome to the valley!" he said.
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Page 9 and 10: never fall out! all praise to his w
Page 11 and 12: which has been made to look exactly
Page 13 and 14: "True, true," said Thorin. "Well, y
Page 15 and 16: out; leaving his second breakfast h
Page 17 and 18: you or I would notice anything at a
Page 19 and 20: together, and Dori and Nori and Ori
Page 21: "These look like good blades," said
Page 25 and 26: time came to mid- summer eve, and t
Page 27 and 28: The lightning splinters on the peak
Page 29 and 30: It sounded truly terrifying. The wa
Page 31 and 32: itself. It burned with a rage that
Page 33 and 34: I should not have liked to have bee
Page 35 and 36: "Chestnuts, chestnuts," he hissed.
Page 37 and 38: He flapped into the water and paddl
Page 39 and 40: Utterly miserable as Gollum sounded
Page 41 and 42: Bilbo crept away from the wall more
Page 43 and 44: "Good heavens!" he exclaimed. "I se
Page 45 and 46: "A very ticklish business, it was,"
Page 47 and 48: larch like an enormous Christmas tr
Page 49 and 50: the commotion among the wolves and
Page 51 and 52: having had to escape from wolves be
Page 53 and 54: And so they parted. And though the
Page 55 and 56: Inside on the southward side of the
Page 57 and 58: "Troop, was right," he said. "A fin
Page 59 and 60: Whether it was magic or not, it see
Page 61 and 62: "So I did. And don't be silly! You
Page 63 and 64: There was an autumn-like mist white
Page 65 and 66: They walked in single file. The ent
Page 67 and 68: "You should not be so fat. As you a
Page 69 and 70: utterfly that loves the tops of oak
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"That they are not. I saw one a-str
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Somehow or other Fili was got on to
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truth about the vanishing did not l
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would have been of no use against t
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Bilbo, however, did not feel nearly
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will think we had a very strong mag
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into the water he fell, splash! int
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As he listened to the talk of the r
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maddening. I could eat anything in
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As for the Master he saw there was
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Before setting out to search the we
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something. And sit and think they d
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did not mind the poor little fellow
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that have more than they can enjoy
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It is also an awkward fact that the
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"I have always understood," said Bi
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"We knew it would be a desperate ve
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Faint echoes ran round the unseen h
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"I feel magnificent," he thought; "
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sustaining, and is certainly not en
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Soon all the town would be deserted
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plight. That was as well, for the n
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told me. Now I am the chief of the
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"Under the Mountain dark and tall T
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Bilbo, of course, disapproved of th
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even for elves I imagine. Also ther
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"You all seem in league!" said Thor
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"Halt!" cried Gandalf, who appeared
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valley; and they were piled in heap
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All that had happened after he was
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"I beg of you," said Bilbo stammeri
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"It would be well indeed," said Elr
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legal bother, indeed, lasted for ye
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