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In a pigsty in the basis there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy odor, nor nonetheless a dry, bare, sandy hole with zip in it to sit down down on or to consume: it was a hobbit-pigsty, and that means comfort.

It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted light-green, with a shiny yellowish brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite direct into the side of the hill - The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called information technology - and many little round doors opened out of it, first on ane side and then on some other. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to accept windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.

This hobbit was a very well-to-practise hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Loma for time out of listen, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but as well because they never had whatsoever adventures or did annihilation unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may accept lost the neighbours' respect, merely he gained-well, you will run into whether he gained anything in the end.

The female parent of our particular hobbit. . . what is a hobbit? I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they phone call us. They are (or were) a little people, virtually half our summit, and smaller than the bearded Dwarves. Hobbits have no beards. There is niggling or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and apace when big stupid folk similar you and me come blundering along, making a dissonance similar elephants which they can hear a mile off. They are inclined to be at in the tum; they dress in brilliant colours (chiefly green and yellow); wear no shoes, because their feet grow natural leathery soles and thick warm chocolate-brown hair like the stuff on their heads (which is curly); have long clever brown fingers, expert-natured faces, and laugh deep fruity laughs (especially after dinner, which they have twice a twenty-four hours when they can get it). At present y'all know plenty to proceed with. As I was saying, the mother of this hobbit - of Bilbo Baggins, that is - was the fabulous Belladonna Took, i of the iii remarkable daughters of the Old Took, caput of the hobbits who lived beyond The H2o, the small river that ran at the foot of The Hill. It was often said (in other families) that long agone one of the Took ancestors must accept taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, only certainly there was still something not entirely hobbit-like about them, - and once in a while members of the Took-clan would get and take adventures. They discreetly disappeared, and the family hushed information technology up; but the fact remained that the Tooks were not as respectable equally the Bagginses, though they were undoubtedly richer. Non that Belladonna Took ever had any adventures afterward she became Mrs. Bungo Baggins. Bungo, that was Bilbo's father, built the nigh luxurious hobbit-hole for her (and partly with her coin) that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water, and there they remained to the end of their days. Notwithstanding information technology is probable that Bilbo, her only son, although he looked and behaved exactly like a second edition of his solid and comfortable father, got something a bit queer in his makeup from the Took side, something that only waited for a chance to come out. The chance never arrived, until Bilbo Baggins was grown up, existence about fifty years old or and then, and living in the cute hobbit-hole built by his male parent, which I have merely described for you, until he had in fact apparently settled down immovably.

By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when at that place was less racket and more dark-green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was continuing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached virtually down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) - Gandalf came by. Gandalf! If y'all had heard just a quarter of what I accept heard about him, and I accept only heard very little of all in that location is to hear, you would exist prepared for any sort I of remarkable tale. Tales and adventures sprouted upwards all over the place wherever he went, in the most extraordinary way. He had non been down that fashion under The Hill for ages and ages, not since his friend the One-time Took died, in fact, and the hobbits had virtually forgotten what he looked like. He had been abroad over The Colina and beyond The Water on business organisation of his own since they were all small hobbit-boys and hobbit-girls.

All that the unsuspecting Bilbo saw that morn was an former homo with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue chapeau, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which a white beard hung down below his waist, and immense blackness boots. "Adept morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. "What practice you lot hateful?" be said. "Do you wish me a adept morn, or mean that information technology is a expert morning whether I desire not; or that yous feel adept this morning; or that it is forenoon to be good on?"

"All of them at in one case," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain. If you have a pipe about you, sit down down and take a fill of mine! At that place's no hurry, we have all the solar day before us!" Then Bilbo sat downward on a seat past his door, crossed his legs, and blew out a beautiful grey ring of fume that sailed upward into the air without breaking and floated away over The Hill.

"Very pretty!" said Gandalf. "But I take no time to blow smoke-rings this morning. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and information technology's very difficult to observe anyone. "

I should think and then - in these parts! We are plain serenity folk and accept no utilize for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Brand yous belatedly for dinner! I tin't call up what anybody sees in them, said our Mr. Baggins, and stuck one thumb behind his braces, and blew out some other even bigger smoke-ring. So he took out his morning letters, and begin to read, pretending to accept no more notice of the former man. He had decided that he was non quite his sort, and wanted him to go abroad. But the old man did not move. He stood leaning on his stick and gazing at the hobbit without saying anything, till Bilbo got quite uncomfortable and fifty-fifty a little cross.

"Good morning!" he said at last. "We don't want whatsoever adventures here, thank yous! Yous might try over The Hill or across The H2o. " Past this he meant that the conversation was at an end.

"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be proficient till I move off. "

"Not at all, not at all, my honey sir! Let me come across, I don't retrieve I know your proper noun?"

"Yep, yes, my beloved sir - and I do know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my proper noun, though you lot don't recall that I vest to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think that I should have lived to be expert-morninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!" "Gandalf, Gandalf! Expert gracious me! Not the wandering magician that gave Old Took a pair of magic diamond studs that fastened themselves and never came undone till ordered? Not the boyfriend who used to tell such wonderful tales at parties, virtually dragons and goblins and giants and the rescue of princesses and the unexpected luck of widows' sons? Non the human being that used to make such particularly excellent fireworks! I retrieve those! Old Took used to accept them on Midsummer'due south Eve. Spl

endid! They used to go up like peachy lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of burn down and hang in the twilight all evening!" You lot volition discover already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers. "Dear me!" she went on. "Non the Gandalf who was responsible for so many placidity lads and lasses going off into the Bluish for mad adventures. Anything from climbing copse to visiting Elves - or sailing in ships, sailing to other shores! Bless me, life used to be quite inter - I hateful, you used to upset things badly in these parts one time upon a time. I beg your pardon, but I had no thought you were still in business concern. " "Where else should I be?" said the magician. "Yet I am pleased to find y'all recall something about me. You lot seem to remember my fireworks kindly, at any rate, state that is not without hope. Indeed for your old grand-father Took's sake, and for the sake of poor Belladonna, I will requite y'all what you asked for. "

"I beg your pardon, I haven't asked for annihilation!"

"Yes, you have! Twice now. My pardon. I give it you. In fact I volition go so far as to send y'all on this adventure. Very amusing for me, very good for you and profitable likewise, very likely, if you lot ever become over information technology. "

"Distressing! I don't desire any adventures, thank you lot. Non today. Expert morning!

Only please come to tea - any time you like! Why non tomorrow? Come up tomorrow!

Practiced-farewell!"

With that the hobbit turned and scuttled inside his round green door, and shut it every bit speedily equally he dared, not to seen rude. Wizards afterwards all are wizards.

"What on earth did I ask him to tea for!" he said to him-self, as he went

to the pantry. He had only simply had break fast, simply he thought a cake or two and a drink of something would do him good after his fright. Gandalf in the meantime was still standing exterior the door, and laughing long merely quietly. After a while he stepped up, and with the spike of his staff scratched a queer sign on the hobbit'southward cute green forepart-door. Then he strode away, merely about the fourth dimension when Bilbo was finishing his second cake and beginning to think that he had escape adventures very well.

The adjacent day he had well-nigh forgotten about Gandalf. He did not think things very well, unless he put them down on his Engagement Tablet: like this:

Gandalf 'a Wednesday. Yesterday he had been too flustered to do anything of the kind. Just before tea-time there came a tremendous ring on the front-door bell, so he remembered! He rushed and put on the kettle, and put out another cup and saucer and an actress cake or two, and ran to the door. "I am so sad to keep you waiting!" he was going to say, when he saw that it was not Gandalf at all. It was a dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt, and very bright optics under his dark-green hood. As presently a the door was opened, he pushed inside, just as if he had been expected. He hung his hooded cloak on the nearest peg, and "Dwalin at your service!" he said with a low bow.

"Bilbo Baggins at yours!" said the hobbit, as well surprised to ask any questions for the moment. When the silence that followed had get uncomfortable, he added: "I am just nigh to accept tea; pray come and accept some with me. " A petty potent peradventure, merely he meant it kindly. And what would you practice, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

They had not been at tabular array long, in fact they had inappreciably reached the third cake, when in that location came another even louder ring at the bong. "Excuse me!" said the hobbit, and off he went to the door. "And then you have got here at last!" was what he was going to say to Gandalf this fourth dimension. Just it was not Gandalf. Instead in that location was a very old-looking dwarf on the stride with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as presently as the door was open, just equally if he had been invited. "I run across they have begun to arrive already," he said when he caught sight of Dwalin'south green hood hanging up. He hung his carmine i adjacent to it, and "Balin at your service!" he said with his hand on his chest.

"Cheers!" said Bilbo with a gasp. It was not the correct affair to say, but they accept begun to arrive had flustered him badly. He liked visitors, just he liked to know them before they arrived, and he preferred to ask them himself. He had a horrible idea that the cakes might run brusk, and then he-as the host: he knew his duty and stuck to it however painful-he might take to go without.

"Come forth in, and take some tea!" he managed to say afterwards taking a deep breath.

"A little beer would suit me better, if it is however to you, my good sir," said Balin with the white bristles. "But I don't listen some cake-seed-cake, if you have whatsoever. "

"Lots!" Bilbo found himself answering, to his own surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to make full a pint beer-mug, and to the pantry to fetch two cute round seed-cakes which he had broiled that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.

When he got back Balin and Dwalin were talking at the table like one-time friends (every bit a affair of fact they were brothers). Bilbo plumped downwardly the beer and the cake in front of them, when loud came a ring at the bell over again, and then another band.

"Gandalf for sure this time," he thought as he puffed along the passage. But it was not. It was ii more dwarves, both with blue hoods, silver belts, and yellow beards; and each of them carried a bag of tools and a spade. In they hopped, as soon as the door began to open-Bilbo was hardly surprised at all.

"What can I do for you, my dwarves?" he said. "Kili at your service!"

said the one. "And Fili!" added the other; and they both swept off their bluish hoods and bowed.

"At yours and your family's!" replied Bilbo, remembering his manners this time.

"Dwalin and Balin here already, I see," said Kili. "Permit united states of america join the throng!"

"Throng!" thought Mr. Baggins. "I don't similar the audio of that. I actually must sit down for a minute and collect my wits, and have a drinkable. " He had only just had a sip-in the corner, while the iv dwarves sat effectually the table, and talked about mines and gold and troubles with the goblins, and the depredations of dragons, and lots of other things which he did not understand, and did not desire to, for they sounded much too adventurous-when, ding-dong-a-ling-' dang, his bell rang once again, as if some naughty little hobbit-boy was trying to pull the handle off. "Someone at the door!" he said, blinking. "Some 4, I should say by the sound," said Fili. "Be-sides, nosotros saw them coming along backside us in the distance. "

The poor little hobbit sat downward in the hall and put his head in his hands, and wondered what had happened, and what was going to happen, and whether they would all stay to supper. Then the bell rang again louder than ever, and he had to run to the door. It was non four after all, it was FIVE. Some other dwarf had come up forth while he was wondering in the hall. He had hardly turned the knob, exist-x)re they were all within, bowing and saying "at your service" one after some other. Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, and Gloin were their names; and very soon two purple hoods, a grey hood, a brown hood, and a white hood were hanging on the pegs, and off they marched with their broad hands stuck in their gold and silverish belts to join the others. Already information technology had most become a throng. Some called for ale, and some for porter, and one for coffee, and all of them for cakes; and so the hobbit was kept very decorated for a while. A big jug of coffee bad just been set in the hearth, the seed-cakes were gone, and the dwarves were starting on a round of buttered scones, when there came-a loud knock. Not a band, but a hard rat-tat on the hobbit'south beautiful green door. Somebody was banging with a stick!

Bilbo rushed along the passage, very angry, and altogether bewildered and bewuthered-this was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered. He pulled open the door with a jerk, and they all brutal in, one on superlative of the other. More dwarves, iv more! And at that place was Gandalf backside, leaning on his staff and laughing. He had made quite a dent on the beautiful door; he had besides, by the way, knocked out the hush-hush mark that he had put there the morning before. "Carefully! Carefully!" he said. "It is not like you, Bilbo, to keep friends waiting on the mat, so open the door like a popular-gun! Permit me introduce Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, and particularly Thorin!" "At your service!" said Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur standing in a row. Then they hung upward two yellow hoo

ds and a pale green one; and likewise a heaven-blue one with a long silver tassel. This last belonged to Thorin, an enormously of import dwarf, in fact no other than the great Thorin Oakenshield himself, who was not at all pleased at falling flat on Bilbo'due south mat with Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur on top of him. For one affair Bombur was immensely fatty and heavy. Thorin indeed was very haughty, and said zippo about service; simply poor Mr. Baggins said he was pitiful so many times, that at terminal he grunted "pray don't mention information technology," and stopped frowning.

"Now we are all here!" said Gandalf, looking at the row of xiii hoods-the best detachable political party hoods-and his own chapeau hanging on the pegs. "Quite a merry gathering!

I hope there is something left for the late-comers to consume and potable! What's that? Tea! No cheers! A little cherry-red vino, I think, for me. " "And for me," said Thorin. "And raspberry jam and apple-tart," said Bifur. "And mince-pies and cheese," said Bofur. "And pork-pie and salad," said Bombur. "And more cakes-and ale-and coffee, if you don't mind," called the other dwarves through the door.

"Put on a few eggs, at that place's a adept young man!" Gandalf called afterward him, as

the hobbit stumped off to the pantries. "And just bring out the cold chicken and pickles!"

"Seems to know equally much virtually the inside of my larders every bit I do myself!" idea Mr. Baggins, who was feeling positively flummoxed, and was commencement to wonder whether a nearly wretched adventure had not come right into his house. Past the fourth dimension he had got all the bottles and dishes and knives and forks and glasses and plates and spoons and things piled up on big trays, he was getting very hot, and red in the face, and annoyed.

"Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!" he said aloud. "Why don't they come and lend a hand?" Lo and behold! there stood Balin and Dwalin at the door of the kitchen, and Fili and Kili behind them, and earlier he could say knife they had whisked the trays and a couple of pocket-size tables into the parlour and set out everything afresh.

Gandalf sat at the head of the party with the thirteen, dwarves all round: and Bilbo sat on a stool at the fireside, nibbling at a biscuit (his appetite was quite taken away), and trying to look as if this was all perfectly ordinary and. not in the to the lowest degree an take chances. The dwarves ate and ate, and talked and talked, and time got on. At last they pushed their chairs back, and Bilbo made a move to collect the plates and spectacles. "I suppose you will all stay to supper?" he said in his politest unpressing tones. "Of course!" said Thorin. "And after. We shan't get through the business organisation till tardily, and we must have some music first. Now to clear upward!" Thereupon the twelve dwarves-non Thorin, he was besides important, and stayed talking to Gandalf-jumped to their anxiety and made tall piles of all the things. Off they went, not waiting for trays, balancing columns of plates, each with a canteen on the top, with one paw, while the hobbit ran after them well-nigh squeaking with fright: "please be careful!" and "please, don't trouble! I can manage. " But the dwarves merely started to sing:

"Flake the spectacles and fissure the plates!

Blunt the knives and bend the forks!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates-

Blast the bottles and fire the corks!

Cut the cloth and tread on the fatty!

Pour the milk on the pantry flooring!

Leave the basic on the chamber mat!

Splash the vino on every door!

Dump the crocks in a humid bawl;

Pound them upwardly with a thumping pole;

And when you've finished, if whatever are whole,

Send them down the hall to roll !

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

So, carefully! carefully with the plates!"

And of course they did none of these dreadful things, and everything was cleaned and put away safe equally quick as lightning, while the hobbit was turning round and round in the middle of the kitchen trying to see what they were doing. And so they went back, and found Thorin with his anxiety on the fender smoking a pipage. He was bravado the most enormous smoke-rings, and wherever he told ane to go, information technology went-up the chimney, or behind the clock on the human being-telpiece, or under the table, or round and round the ceiling; simply wherever it went it was non quick enough to escape Gandalf. Pop! he sent a smaller fume-ring from his brusque clay-pipe straight through each one of Thorin's. The Gandalf's fume-band would go greenish and come up back to hover over the sorcerer's caput. He had quite a cloud of them about him already, and in the dim light it made him look strange and sorcerous. Bilbo stood even so and watched-he loved smoke-rings-and then be blushed to remember how proud he had been yesterday morning of the fume-rings he had sent upwardly the wind over The Hill. "Now for some music!" said Thorin. "Bring out the instruments!"

Kili and Fili rushed for their bags and brought back little fiddles;

Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats; Bombur produced a pulsate from the hall; Bifur and Bofur went out too, and came back with clarinets that they had left among the walking-sticks Dwalin and Balin said: "Excuse me, I left mine in the porch!" "Just bring mine in with you," said Thorin. They came dorsum with viols as big equally themselves, and with Thorin's harp wrapped in a dark-green cloth. It was a beautiful gold-en harp, and when Thorin struck it the music began all at once, and then sudden and sugariness that Bilbo forgot everything else, and was swept abroad into dark lands nether foreign moons, far over The Water and very far from his hobbit-pigsty under The Colina. The dark came into the room from the little window that opened in the side of The Loma; the firelight flickered-it was April-and yet they played on, while the shadow of Gandalf's beard wagged against the wall. The nighttime filled all the room, and the fire died downwards, and the shadows were lost, and still they played on. And all of a sudden first one and then another began to sing as they played, deep-throated singing of the dwarves in the deep places of their aboriginal homes; and this is similar a fragment of their song, if it can be similar their song without their music.

"Far over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns one-time

Nosotros must away ere break of twenty-four hours

To seek the pale enchanted golden.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,

While hammers fell like ringing bells

In places deep, where dark things sleep,

In hollow halls below the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord

There many a gloaming golden hoard

They shaped and wrought, and light they caught

To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung

The flowering stars, on crowns they hung

The dragon-fire, in twisted wire

They meshed the light of moon and sunday.

Far over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns old

We must away, ere intermission of day,

To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves

And harps of gold; where no human being delves

There lay they long, and many a song

Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the acme,

The winds were moaning in the night.

The burn was ruby, it flaming spread;

The trees like torches biased with light,

The bells were ringing in the dale

And men looked upwards with faces pale;

The dragon'due south ire more fierce than fire

Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon;

The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.

They fled their hall to dying -fall

Beneath his anxiety, below the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim

To dungeons deep and caverns dim

Nosotros must abroad, ere break of day,

To win our harps and gold from him!"

As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things fabricated past easily

and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hea

rts of dwarves. And so something Tookish woke up within him, and he wished to become and come across the great mountains, and hear the pino-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. He looked out of the window. The stars were out in a dark sky above the trees. He thought of the jewels of the dwarves shining in nighttime caverns. Suddenly in the wood across The H2o a flame leapt up - probably somebody lighting a wood-fire-and he idea of plundering dragons settling on his serenity Hill and kindling it all to flames. He shuddered; and very quickly he was manifestly Mr. Baggins of Bag-Cease, Under-Colina, again. He got upwardly trembling. He had less than half a mind to fetch the lamp, and more than one-half a mind to pretend to, and get and hide behind the beer barrels in the cellar, and not come up out once more until all the dwarves had gone away. Suddenly he found that the music and the singing had stopped, and they were all looking at him with eyes shining in the dark.

"Where are you going?" said Thorin, in a tone that seemed to show that he guessed both halves of the hobbit's listen.

"What about a little light?" said Bilbo apologetically.

"We similar the nighttime," said the dwarves. "Dark for nighttime concern! There are many hours before dawn. "

"Of course!" said Bilbo, and sat down in a hurry. He missed the stool and sat in the fender, knocking over the poker and shovel with a crash. "Hush!" said Gandalf. "Let Thorin speak!" And this is bow Thorin began. "Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! Nosotros are not together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this nigh fantabulous and adventurous hobbit-may the hair on his toes never fall out! all praise to his vino and ale!-" He paused for breath and for a polite remark from the hob-scrap, but the compliments were quite lost on-poor Bilbo Baggins, who was wagging his mouth in protest at being called audacious and worst of all fellow conspirator, though no racket came out, he was so flummoxed. And then Thorin went on:

"We are met to hash out our plans, our ways, means, policy and devices. We shall soon before the intermission of mean solar day starting time on our long journey, a journey from which some of us, or possibly all of u.s. (except our friend and counsellor, the ingenious wizard Gandalf) may never return. Information technology is a solemn moment. Our object is, I have it, well known to the states all. To the estimable Mr. Baggins, and perhaps to one or two of the younger dwarves (I think I should be right in naming Kili and Fili, for instance), the verbal situation at the moment may require a petty brief explanation-" This was Thorin's fashion. He was an of import dwarf. If he had been immune, he would probably accept gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling whatsoever one there 'anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted. Poor Bilbo couldn't bear it whatsoever longer. At may never return he began to feel a shriek coming upward inside, and very before long it burst out like the whistle of an engine coming out of a tunnel. All the dwarves sprang Bp knocking over the tabular array. Gandalf struck a blueish lite on the end of his magic staff, and in its firework glare the poor little hobbit could be seen kneeling on the hearth-rug, shaking like a jelly that was melting. Then he savage flat on the floor, and kept on calling out "struck by lightning, struck past lightning!" over and once more; and that was all they could go out of him for a long time. So they took him and laid him out of the style on the cartoon-room sofa with a beverage at his elbow, and they went dorsum to their dark business.

"Excitable little boyfriend," said Gandalf, as they sat down again. "Gets funny queer fits, but he is ane of the all-time, one of the best-as trigger-happy every bit a dragon in a pinch. "

If you have always seen a dragon in a pinch, you lot will realise that this was

but poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-

granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a

equus caballus. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the

Green Fields, and knocked their rex Gol-firnbul'due south caput clean off with a

wooden society. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf game invented at the aforementioned moment.

In the meanwhile, notwithstanding, Bullroarer'southward gentler descendant was reviving in the drawing-room. Afterward a while and a drinkable he crept nervously to the door of the parlour. This is what he heard, Gloin speaking: "Humph!" (or some snort more than or less like that). "Will he do, exercise you think? It is all very well for Gandalf to talk about this hobbit beingness trigger-happy, simply one shriek like that in a moment of excitement would be enough to wake the dragon and all his relatives, and kill the lot of united states. I think information technology sounded more similar fear than excitement! In fact, if it bad not been for the sign on the door, I should have been sure we had come to the incorrect business firm. As soon as I clapped eyes on the little young man bobbing and puffing on the mat, I had my doubts. He looks more like a grocer-than a burglar!"

Then Mr. Baggins turned the handle and went in. The Took side had won. He suddenly felt he would go without bed and breakfast to be thought trigger-happy. Equally for footling fellow bobbing on the mat information technology almost made him really fierce. Many a time later on the Baggins office regretted what he did now, and he said to himself: "Bilbo, you were a fool; you walked right in and put your foot in it. "

"Pardon me," he said, "if I have overheard words that yous were proverb. I don't pretend to sympathise what you are talking nearly, or your reference to burglars, but I call back I am right in believing" (this is what he called being on his dignity) "that you think I am no good. I will show you. I take no signs on my door-information technology was painted a week agone-, and I am quite sure you lot have come to the wrong house. Equally soon equally I saw your funny faces on the door-footstep, I had my doubts. But care for it as the right one. Tell me what yous want washed, and I will try it, if I have to walk from here to the East of East and fight the wild Were-worms in the Last Desert. I bad a great-great-great-granduncle once, Bullroarer Took, and -" "Yes, yes, but that was long ago," said Gloin. "I was talking most you lot. And I assure you in that location is a mark on this door-the usual one in the trade, or used to be. Burglar wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward, that'southward how it is ordinarily read. You ^an say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Infiltrator if you like. Some of them practice. It's notwithstanding to us. Gandalf told us that there was a man of the sort in these parts looking for a Chore at in one case, and that he had arranged for a meeting here this Midweek tea-time. "

"Of grade in that location is a mark," said Gandalf. "I put it in that location myself. For very good reasons. You asked me to find the fourteenth man for your expedition, and I chose Mr. Baggins. Merely permit any one say I chose the incorrect human being or the wrong business firm, and you can stop at thirteen and have all the bad luck you like, or go back to earthworks coal. "

He scowled so angrily at Gloin that the dwarf huddled back in his chair; and when Bilbo tried to open up his rima oris to ask a question, he turned and frowned at him and stuck oat his bushy eyebrows, till Bilbo shut his oral fissure tight with a snap. "That's right," said Gandalf. "Permit'due south have no more argument. I have called Mr. Baggins and that ought to !6te enough for all of yous. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. In that location is a lot more in him than yous estimate, and a deal more than he has any thought of himself. You may (possibly) all live to thank me nevertheless. Now Bilbo, my boy, fetch the lamp, and let's have little light on this!"

On the table in the light of a large lamp with a red shad he spread a piece of parchment rather similar a map.

"This was made by Thror, your grandad, Thorin, he said in reply to the dwarves' excited questions. "It is a plan of the Mountain. " "I don't meet that this will help us much," said Thorin disappointedly after a glance. "I remember the Mountain well plenty and the lands about information technology. And I know where Mirkwood is, and the Withered Heath where the great dragons bred. "

"There is a dragon marked in cherry-red on the Mountain, said Balin, "but information technology will be easy plenty to observe him without that, if ever nosotros get in there. " "There is one point that yous haven't noticed," said the wizard, "and that is the secret entrance. You lot see that rune on the West side, and the hand pointing to it from the other runes? That marks a hidden passage to the Lower Halls.

"It may take been hole-and-corner once," said Thorin, "only how do

we know that it is secret whatsoever longer? Quondam Smaug had lived there long plenty at present to find out anything there is to know most those caves. "

"He may-only he tin't have used information technology for years and years. "Why?" "Considering it is too small. 'Five feet high the door and three may walk abreast' say the runes, but Smaug could non creep into a pigsty that size, not fifty-fifty when he was a young dragon, certainly not after devouring so many of the dwarves and men of Dale. "

"It seems a great large hole to me," squeaked Bilbo (who had no experience of dragons and simply of hobbit-holes) He was getting excited and interested again, so that he forgot to keep his rima oris shut. He loved maps, and in his hall there hung a large one of the Country Circular with all his favourite walks marked on information technology in red ink. "How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody exterior, autonomously from the dragon?" he asked. He was just a little hobbit yous must call up.

"In lots of ways," said Gandalf. "But in what manner this one has been hidden we don't know without going to see. From what it says on the map I should guess there is a closed door which has been made to look exactly like the side of the Mountain. That is the usual dwarves' method - I recall that is right, isn't it?" "Quite correct," said Thorin.

"Besides," went on Gandalf, "I forgot to mention that with the map went a cardinal, a small and curious key. Here it is!" he said, and handed to Thorin a key with a long butt and intricate wards, made of silver. "Keep it safe!" "Indeed I volition," said Thorin, and he attached it upon a fine chain that hung about his neck and under his jacket. "Now things brainstorm to look more hopeful. This news alters them much for-the amend. So far nosotros have had no clear idea what to practise. Nosotros idea of going Eastward, as serenity and careful as we could, as far as the Long Lake. After that the problem would begin. " "A long time before that, if I know annihilation nearly the loads Due east," interrupted Gandalf.

"We might go from there upward along the River Running," went on Thorin taking no notice, "and and so to the ruins of Dale-the one-time town in the valley there, under the shadow of the Mountain. But we none of us liked the idea of the Front end Gate. The river runs correct out of it through the great cliff at the Due south of the Mountain, and out of it comes the dragon too-far too often, unless he has inverse. "

"That would exist no good," said the wizard, "not without a mighty Warrior, fifty-fifty a Hero. I tried to find one; merely warriors are busy fighting 1 another in afar lands, and in this neighbourhood heroes are deficient, or only lot to be found. Swords in these parts are mostly edgeless, and axes are used for trees, and shields every bit cradles or dish-covers; and dragons are comfortably furthermost (and therefore legendary). That is why I settled on burglary-specially when I remembered the existence of a Side-door. And here is our little Bilbo Baggins, the infiltrator, the called and selected burglar. So at present permit's become on and make some plans. "

"Very well then," said Thorin, "supposing the burglar-expert gives the states some ideas or suggestions. " He turned with mock-politeness to Bilbo. "Get-go I should like to know a bit more near things," said he, feeling all confused and a bit shaky inside, but then far however lookishly adamant to go on with things. "I mean about the gilt and the dragon, and all that, and how it got in that location, and who it belongs to, and and so on and further. " "Bless me!" said Thorin, "haven't y'all got a map? and didn't you hear our song? and haven't we been talking about all this for hours?"

"All the same, I should like it all obviously and clear," said he

obstinately, putting on his business organization fashion (commonly reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf'south recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"-past which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it? and am I going to come dorsum alive?"

"O very well," said Thorin. "Long ago in my grandpa Thror's time our family was driven out of the far North, and came dorsum with all their wealth and their tools to this Mountain on the map. It had been discovered past my far ancestor, Thrain the Onetime, but at present they mined and they tunnelled and they fabricated huger halls and greater workshops -and in improver I believe they found a good bargain of gold and a groovy many jewels too. Anyway they grew immensely rich and famous, and my granddaddy was Male monarch nether the Mount again and treated with bang-up reverence by the mortal men, who lived to the Due south, and were gradually spreading upwards the Running River as far as the valley overshadowed by the Mountain. They built the merry boondocks of Dale in that location in those days. Kings used to send for our smiths, and reward even the least practiced most richly. Fathers would beg us to take their sons as apprentices, and pay us handsomely, particularly in nutrient-supplies, which nosotros never bothered to grow or find for ourselves. Altogether those were adept days for u.s., and the poorest of us had money to spend and to lend, and leisure to make beautiful things merely for the. fun of information technology, not to speak of the most marvellous and magical toys, the similar of which is non to exist found in the world now-a-days. Then my grandfather's halls became total of armour and jewels and carvings and cups, and the toy-marketplace of Dale was the wonder of the North.

"Undoubtedly that was what brought the dragon. Dragons steal golden and jewels, you know, from men and elves and dwarves, wherever they can detect them; and they guard their plunder as long equally they live (which is practically forever, unless they are killed), and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed they inappreciably know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually accept a skilful notion of the current market place value; and they can't make a matter for themselves, not even mend a footling loose scale of their armour. In that location were lots of dragons in the North in those days, and gold was probably getting scarce upwards there, with the dwarves flying south or getting killed, and all the full general waste and destruction that dragons make going from bad to worse. There was a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm chosen Smaug. One mean solar day he flew up into the air and came southward. The kickoff we heard of it was a racket like a hurricane coming from the North, and the pino-copse on the Mountain creaking and cracking in the wind. Some of the dwarves who happened to be outside (I was i luckily -a fine adventurous lad in those days, always wandering near, and it saved my life that day)-well, from a practiced way off we saw the dragon settle on our mount in a spout of flame. Then he came downward the slopes and when he reached the woods they all went up in fire. By that time all the bells were ringing in Dale and the warriors were arming. The dwarves rushed out of their great gate; merely there was the dragon waiting for them. None escaped that style. The river rushed up in steam and a fog fell on Dale, and in the fog the dragon came on them and destroyed nearly of the warriors-the usual unhappy story, it was just too common in those days. Then he went back and crept in through the Front Gate and routed out all the halls, and lanes, and tunnels, alleys, cellars, mansions and passages. After that there were no dwarves left live within, and he took all their wealth for himself. Probably, for that is the dragons' way, he has piled it all upward in a great heap far inside, and sleeps on it for a bed. Afterward he used to clamber out of the great gate and come by night to Dale, and acquit away people, especially maidens, to eat, until Dale was ruined, and all the people expressionless or gone. What goes on there at present I don't know for certain, only I don't suppose anyone lives nearer to the Mountain than the far edge of the Long Lake now-a-days.

"The few of us that were well exterior sabbatum and wept in hiding, and cursed Smaug; and at that place we were unexpectedly joined past my male parent and my grandfather with singed beards. They looked very grim only they said very piddling. When I asked how they had got away, they told me to hold my tongue, and said that ane day in the proper time I should know. Subsequently that we went away, and we accept had to earn our livings as all-time we could upwards and downwards the lands, often enough sinking as low as blacksmith-work or fifty-fifty coalmining. Only we have never forgotten our stolen treasure. And even now, when I will allow nosotros accept a expert chip laid past and are not and then badly off"-here Thorin stroked the gold concatenation round his neck-"we still hateful to get it back, and to bring our curses dwelling to Smaug-if nosotros tin.

"I have ofttimes wondered about my begetter's and my grandfather'south escape. I meet at present they must have had a individual Side-doo

r which only they knew about. But evidently they made a map, and I should like to know how Gandalf got agree of information technology, and why it did not come down to me, the rightful heir. " "I did not 'get hold of it,' I was given it," said the wizard. "Your grandfather Thror was killed, y'all call back, in the mines of Moria by Azog the Goblin -" "Expletive his proper noun, aye," said Thorin.

"And Thrain your begetter went abroad on the xx-commencement of Apr, a hundred years ago last Thursday, and has never been seen by you since-" "Truthful, true," said Thorin.

"Well, your male parent gave me this to give to you; and if I have chosen my ain fourth dimension and way of handing information technology over, you can hardly blame me, because the trouble I had to find you lot. Your father could not remember his own name when he gave me the newspaper, and he never told me yours; so on the whole I think I ought to be praised and thanked. Here it is," said he handing the map to Thorin. "I don't understand," said Thorin, and Bilbo felt he would have liked to say the same. The caption did not seem to explicate. "Your grandfather," said the wizard slowly and grimly, "gave the map to his son for safety before he went to the mines of Moria. Your father went away to endeavour his luck with the map after your grandfather was killed; and lots of adventures of a well-nigh unpleasant sort he had, just he never got most the Mountain. How he got there I don't know, merely I institute him a prisoner in the dungeons of the Necromancer. "

"Any were you doing there?" asked Thorin with a shudder, and all the dwarves shivered.

"Never you listen. I was finding things out, as usual; and a nasty dangerous business it was. Even I, Gandalf, merely just escaped. I tried to save your male parent, but it was also late. He was witless and wandering, and had forgotten almost everything except the map and the key. " "Nosotros take long agone paid the goblins of Moria," said Thorin; "we must requite a thought to the Necromancer. " "Don't be cool! He is an enemy quite beyond the powers of all the dwarves put together, if they could all be collected once more from the four corners of the world. The one matter your father wished was for his son to read the map and use the key. The dragon and the Mountain are more than big enough tasks for yous!"

"Hear, hear!" said Bilbo, and accidentally said it aloud, "Hear what?" they all said turning all of a sudden towards him, and he was so flustered that he answered "Hear what I have got to say!" "What's that?" they asked. "Well, I should say that you ought to go Eastward and have a look circular.

Later on all there is the Side-door, and dragons must sleep sometimes, I suppose.

If you lot sit down on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will retrieve of something. And well, don't you know, I call up we have talked long plenty for 1 night, if you see what I mean. What almost bed, and an early commencement, and all that? I will give y'all a skillful breakfast before you become. "

"Before we go, I suppose you mean," said Thorin. "Aren't you lot the infiltrator? And isn't sitting on the door-step your chore, non to speak of getting inside the door? But I concord about bed and breakfast. I like eggs with my ham, when starting on a journey: fried non poached, and heed you don't pause 'em. "

Afterwards all the others had ordered their breakfasts without and then much as a please (which annoyed Bilbo very much), they all got up. The hobbit had to find room for them all, and filled all his spare-rooms and made beds on chairs and sofas, before he got them all stowed and went to his own little bed very tired and not altogether happy. I matter he did brand his mind upwardly about was not to bother to get up very early on and cook everybody else's wretched breakfast. The Tookishness was wearing off, and he was not now quite so certain that he was going on any journeying in the morn. As he lay in bed he could hear Thorin all the same humming to himself in the best chamber next to him:

"Far over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns one-time

We must away, ere pause of 24-hour interval,

To find our long-forgotten gold. "

Bilbo went to slumber with that in his ears, and it gave him very uncomfortable dreams. It was long afterwards the intermission of twenty-four hour period, when he woke upward.

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