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  • We were about halfway through The Hobbit.†   (source)
  • He would have preferred The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or even another copy of The Hobbit to replace the one he lost last summer in Calcutta, left on the rooftop of his father's house in Alipore and snatched away by crows.†   (source)
  • -J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit When Elinor heard the shots she jumped up so fast that she stumbled over her blanket in the dark and fell full length in the coarse grass.†   (source)
  • I even attempted The Hobbit, though I found the language in both these books hard to comprehend.†   (source)
  • I sounded like those nerdy kids at school, the ones who spouted baseball stats or knew Lord of the Rings like Frodo, the Hobbit, was a long-lost cousin.†   (source)
  • Further information will also be found in the selection from the Red Book of Westmarch that has already been published, under the title of The Hobbit.†   (source)
  • …shamans, all historians, writers, politicians and diplomats, liberationists of whatever sex and persuasion, lawyers, judges, penologists, stand-up comedians, film directors, journalists, in short, anyone concerned remotely with affecting the consciousness of his fellow-man—and this would include our own beloved children, those incipient American leaders at the eighth-grade level, who should be required to study it along with The Catcher in the Rye, The Hobbit and the Constitution.†   (source)
  • As is told in The Hobbit, there came one day to Bilbo's door the great Wizard, Gandalf the Grey, and thirteen dwarves with him: none other, indeed, than Thorin Oakenshield, descendant of kings, and his twelve companions in exile.†   (source)
  • 'How is the hobbit, Pippin?' asked Aragorn.†   (source)
  • But what does the hobbit want all that water for?†   (source)
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  • Pippin declared that Frodo was looking twice the hobbit that he had been.†   (source)
  • He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much.†   (source)
  • Hence the excitement of the hobbit-children.†   (source)
  • What's the hobbit going to do with it, we wonders, yes we wonders.'†   (source)
  • The hobbit relaxed and fell back, clinging to the wizard's hand.†   (source)
  • Gandalf's eyes remained bent on the hobbit.†   (source)
  • A spasm of anger passed swiftly over the hobbit's face again.†   (source)
  • The hobbit, Peregrin, above all should not know where it is bestowed.†   (source)
  • But Nob, the hobbit servant, came bustling in long before they thought of ringing.†   (source)
  • The hobbit-rooms have windows looking north and close to the ground.†   (source)
  • The hobbit-children were so excited that for a while they almost forgot about eating.†   (source)
  • Aragorn laughed, and took the hobbit by the hand.†   (source)
  • Unnoticed a Rider came up and spoke softly in the hobbit's ear.†   (source)
  • But when they had come almost to the end of the line one looked up glancing keenly at the hobbit.†   (source)
  • Room was made for the hobbit at the king's left hand, but no one called for any tale.†   (source)
  • The hobbit shuddered.†   (source)
  • He lifted up the hobbit.†   (source)
  • He went down to meet him and hastily took the dark globe from the hobbit, wrapping it in the folds of his cloak.†   (source)
  • And that therefore the hobbit was captive there, driven to look in the glass for his torment by Saruman.†   (source)
  • But the hobbit was not seen: he was not "in the open", for it was night and he still had his elven-cloak.†   (source)
  • That dark mind will be filled now with the voice and face of the hobbit and with expectation: it may take some time before he learns his error.†   (source)
  • He laid his hand on the hobbit's shoulder in friendly fashion; but Frodo felt the hand trembling with suppressed excitement.†   (source)
  • He knelt by Pippin's body: the hobbit was lying on his back rigid, with unseeing eyes staring up at the sky.†   (source)
  • The light in his eyes was like a green flame as he sped back to murder the hobbit and recover his 'precious'.†   (source)
  • Elrond drew Frodo to a seat by his side, and presented him to the company, saying: 'Here, my friends is the hobbit, Frodo son of Drogo.†   (source)
  • But Gandalf made no sign; and drawn forward once more, half against his will, the hobbit crept up again from behind the wizard's head.†   (source)
  • He took a step towards the hobbit, and he seemed to grow tall and menacing; his shadow filled the little room.†   (source)
  • When he had forced a drink from his flask down the hobbit's throat, cut his leg-bonds, and dragged him to his feet, Merry stood up, looking pale but grim and defiant, and very much alive.†   (source)
  • To these four volumes there was added in Westmarch a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and various other matter concerning the hobbit members of the Fellowship.†   (source)
  • Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and majesty.†   (source)
  • Gilthoniel A Elbereth! And then his tongue was loosed and his voice cried in a language which he did not know: A Elbereth Gilthoniel o menel palan-diriel, le nallon sa di'nguruthos! A tiro nin, Fanuilos! And with that he staggered to his feet and was Samwise the hobbit, Hamfast's son, again.†   (source)
  • Maybe he would have attacked Bilbo at once, if the ring had been on him when they met; but it was not, and the hobbit held in his hand an Elvish knife, which served him as a sword.†   (source)
  • At last the wizard passed into a song of which the hobbit caught the words: a few lines came clear to his ears through the rushing of the wind: _Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea?†   (source)
  • Whence came the hobbit's ring?†   (source)
  • Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk.†   (source)
  • Ents the earthborn, old as mountains, the wide-walkers, water drinking; and hungry as hunters, the Hobbit children, the laughing-folk, the little people, they shall remain friends as long as leaves are renewed.†   (source)
  • 'The hobbit's bite is deep!†   (source)
  • Then the four companions went into the hobbit guard-house and made themselves as comfortable as they could.†   (source)
  • 'Gladly will I take it,' said the king; and laying his long old hands upon the brown hair of the hobbit; he blessed him.†   (source)
  • And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him.†   (source)
  • 'You did indeed!' said Gandalf, laughing suddenly; and he came and stood beside Pippin, putting his arm about the hobbit's shoulders and gazing out of the window.†   (source)
  • Now there were thousands of willing hands of all ages, from the small but nimble ones of the hobbit lads and lasses to the well-worn and horny ones of the gaffers and gammers.†   (source)
  • Then men fell back before the command of his voice and questioned him no further, though they gazed in wonder at the hobbit that sat before him and at the horse that bore him.†   (source)
  • And ever as they talked Beregond was more amazed, and looked with greater wonder at the hobbit, swinging his short legs as he sat on the seat, or standing tiptoe upon it to peer over the sill at the lands below.†   (source)
  • Sometimes where the way was broader he had ridden at the king's side, not noticing that many of the Riders smiled to see the two together: the hobbit on his little shaggy grey pony, and the Lord of Rohan on his great white horse.†   (source)
  • Thus it came to pass that when the king set out, before Dernhelm sat Meriadoc the hobbit, and the great grey steed Windfola made little of the burden; for Dernhelm was less in weight than many men, though lithe and well-knit in frame.†   (source)
  • And there stood Meriadoc the hobbit in the midst of the slain, blinking like an owl in the daylight, for tears blinded him; and through a mist he looked on Eowyn's fair head, as she lay and did not move; and he looked on the face of the king, fallen in the midst of his glory, For Snowmane in his agony had rolled away from him again; yet he was the bane of his master.†   (source)
  • Still the dwarves jogged on, never turning round or taking any notice of the hobbit.†   (source)
  • Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.†   (source)
  • Of course there were only thirteen of them, twelve dwarves and the hobbit.†   (source)
  • They saw the little dark shape of the hobbit start across the floor holding his tiny light aloft.†   (source)
  • "Bilbo Baggins at yours!" said the hobbit, too surprised to ask any questions for the moment.†   (source)
  • It was some time before he would be even polite to the hobbit.†   (source)
  • Not a ring, but a hard rat-tat on the hobbit's beautiful green door.†   (source)
  • The hobbit was no longer much brighter than the dwarves.†   (source)
  • How are you going to push the boat back to the far bank?" asked the hobbit.†   (source)
  • the look-out man, who was rather fond the hobbit.†   (source)
  • "O well!" said the hobbit uncomfortably.†   (source)
  • Through it peeps the hobbit's little head.†   (source)
  • But the land was green and there was much grass through which the hobbit strolled along contentedly.†   (source)
  • So following the hobbit, down into the lowest cellars they crept.†   (source)
  • That made the hobbit most dreadfully uncomfortable and scattered his wits.†   (source)
  • "You are called for;" and leading the hobbit he took him within the tent.†   (source)
  • And they simply could not find the hobbit.†   (source)
  • "What are moon-letters?" asked the hobbit full of excitement.†   (source)
  • Gandalf called after him, as the hobbit stumped off to the pantries.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me!" said the hobbit, and off he went to the door.†   (source)
  • They did this for a long while, and at last the hobbit opened his eyes again.†   (source)
  • "Do we really have to go through?" groaned the hobbit.†   (source)
  • "O yes!" he said in answer to more questions from the hobbit.†   (source)
  • Balin was overjoyed to see the hobbit again, and as delighted as he was surprised.†   (source)
  • "Half a moment," said the hobbit shivering.†   (source)
  • Then in crept the hobbit.†   (source)
  • The hobbit jumped nearly out of his skin when the hiss came in his ears, and he suddenly saw the pale eyes sticking out at him.†   (source)
  • "How far is that?" asked the hobbit.†   (source)
  • Just when a wizard would have been most useful, too," groaned Dori and Nori (who shared the hobbit's views about regular meals, plenty and often).†   (source)
  • "Now do be careful!" whispered the hobbit, "and quiet as you can be! There may be no Smaug at the bottom but then again there may be.†   (source)
  • Where are you going?" said Thorin, in a tone that seemed to show that he guessed both halves of the hobbit's mind.†   (source)
  • He stood leaning on his stick and gazing at the hobbit without saying anything, till Bilbo got quite uncomfortable and even a little cross.†   (source)
  • The dwarves and the hobbit, helped by the wise advice of Elrond and the knowledge and memory of Gandalf, took the right road to the right pass.†   (source)
  • All this went on for what seemed to the hobbit ages upon ages; and he was always hungry, for they were extremely careful with their provisions.†   (source)
  • "Never heard of him," growled the man, "And what's this little fellow?" he said, stooping down to frown at the hobbit with his bushy eyebrows.†   (source)
  • They all fell silent: the hobbit standing by the grey stone, and the dwarves with wagging beards watching impatiently.†   (source)
  • He nodded and he growled, when he heard of the hobbit's reappearance and of their scramble down the stone-slide and of the wolf-ring m the woods.†   (source)
  • The stars were coming out behind him in a pale sky barred with black when the hobbit crept through the enchanted door and stole into the Mountain.†   (source)
  • Bilbo the hobbit on a pony, my dear!†   (source)
  • That is why, when the elves bound the dwarves in a long line, one behind the other, and counted them, they never found or counted the hobbit.†   (source)
  • Very soon the hobbit would be caught in a thick fence of them all round him-that at least was the spiders' idea.†   (source)
  • "You must go on and find out all about that light, and what it is for, and if all is perfectly safe and canny," said Thorin to the hobbit.†   (source)
  • With that the hobbit turned and scuttled inside his round green door, and shut it as quickly as he dared, not to seen rude.†   (source)
  • It would have made only a tiny pocket-knife for a troll, but it was as good as a short sword for the hobbit.†   (source)
  • The wizard and the hobbit pushed open the heavy creaking gate and went down a wide track towards the house.†   (source)
  • He shouted and fell; and the hobbit rolled off his shoulders into the blackness, bumped his head on hard rock, and remembered nothing more.†   (source)
  • Nothing else could, of course, be suggested; so leaving the others Thorin and Fili and Kili and the hobbit went along the shore to the great bridge.†   (source)
  • He could not see the hobbit, but now he was on the alert, and he had other senses that the darkness had sharpened: hearing and smell.†   (source)
  • Some called for ale, and some for porter, and one for coffee, and all of them for cakes; so the hobbit was kept very busy for a while.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the torches stopped, and the hobbit had just time to catch them up before they began to cross the bridge.†   (source)
  • They knew only too well that they would soon all have been dead, if it had not been for the hobbit; and they thanked him many times.†   (source)
  • "The dragon is still alive and in the halls under the Mountain then-or I imagine so from the smoke," said the hobbit.†   (source)
  • In the dark he fell over what he thought was a log, and he found it was the hobbit curled up fast asleep.†   (source)
  • But the hobbit was worried and uncomfortable, and they had difficulty in getting anything out of him.†   (source)
  • The land began to slope up and up, and it seemed to the hobbit that a silence began to draw in upon them.†   (source)
  • Fili and Kili and the hobbit went back one day down the valley and scrambled among the tumbled rocks at its southern corner.†   (source)
  • O let 'cause all come! Hurry up! Come along, you two, and sit down! But look here, Gandalf, even now we have only got yourself and ten dwarves and the hobbit that was lost.†   (source)
  • Just before sunset he walked into the hall, where the hobbit and the dwarves were having supper, waited on by Beorn's wonderful animals, as they had been all day.†   (source)
  • He picked up the hobbit and laughed: "Not eaten up by Wargs or goblins or wicked bears yet I see"; and he poked Mr. Baggins' waistcoat most disrespectfully.†   (source)
  • Soon however he made up his mind that he could not be mistaken, and he came to the door and had a long whispered talk with the hobbit on the other side.†   (source)
  • "As soon as we were asleep," went on Gandalf, "a crack at the back of the cave opened; goblins came out and grabbed the hobbit and the dwarves and our troop of ponies-"†   (source)
  • It was not too difficult for the hobbit, except when, in spite of all care, he stubbed his poor toes again, several times, on nasty jagged stones in the floor.†   (source)
  • A light helm of figured leather, strengthened beneath with hoops of steel, and studded about the bring with white gems, was set upon the hobbit's head.†   (source)
  • He did not know that the hobbit had already caught a glimpse of his peculiar under-covering on his previous visit, and was itching for a closer view for reasons of his own.†   (source)
  • The last thing that he remembered was the party at the hobbit's house, and they had great difficulty in making him believe their tale of all the many adventures they had had since.†   (source)
  • Then the hobbit slipped on his ring, and warned by the echoes to take more than hobbit's care to make no sound, he crept noiselessly down, down, down into the dark.†   (source)
  • "No time now!" said the hobbit.†   (source)
  • "Sh! sh!" they hissed, when they heard his voice: and though that helped the hobbit to find out where they were, was some time before he could get anything else out of them.†   (source)
  • "Here you, are there any more of your sort a-sneakin' in these here woods, yer nassty little rabbit," said he looking at the hobbit's furry feet; and he picked him up by the toes and shook him.†   (source)
  • Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree.†   (source)
  • "Dear me!" grumbled the hobbit.†   (source)
  • As quick as lightning they came running and swinging towards the hobbit, flinging out their long threads in all directions, till the air seemed full of waving snares.†   (source)
  • Soon they crossed the ford (carrying the hobbit), and then began to march through the long green grass and down the lines of the wide-armed oaks and the tall elms.†   (source)
  • As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.†   (source)
  • Gollum threw himself backwards, and grabbed as the hobbit flew over him, but too late: his hands snapped on thin air, and Bilbo, falling fair on his sturdy feet, sped off down the new tunnel.†   (source)
  • It was not very long before he discovered; but that belongs to the next chapter and the beginning of another adventure in which the hobbit again showed his usefulness.†   (source)
  • Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He made the hobbit scramble on his shoulders as best he could with his tied hands, and then off they all went at a run, with a clink-clink of chains, and many a stumble, since they had no hands to steady themselves with.†   (source)
  • Then Smaug really did laugh-a devastating sound which shook Bilbo to the floor, while far up in the tunnel the dwarves huddled together and imagined that the hobbit had come to a sudden and a nasty end.†   (source)
  • At times they were pushing through a sea of bracken with tall fronds rising right above the hobbit's head; at times they were marching along quiet as quiet over a floor of pine-needles; and all the while the forest-gloom got heavier and the forest-silence deeper.†   (source)
  • In fact so black was it that the hobbit came to the opening unexpectedly, put his hand on air, stumbled for ward, and rolled headlong into the hall! There he lay face downwards on the floor and did no dare to get up, or hardly even to breathe.†   (source)
  • The spiders saw the sword, though I don't suppose they knew what it was, and at once the whole lot of them came hurrying after the hobbit along the ground and the branches, hairy legs waving, nippers and spinners snapping, eyes popping, full of froth and rage.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Off they went, not waiting for trays, balancing columns of plates, each with a bottle on the top, with one hand, while the hobbit ran after them almost squeaking with fright: "please be careful!" and "please, don't trouble! I can manage."†   (source)
  • And of course they did none of these dreadful things, and everything was cleaned and put away safe as quick as lightning, while the hobbit was turning round and round in the middle of the kitchen trying to see what they were doing.†   (source)
  • He was anxious to appear friendly, at any rate for the moment, and until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit, whether he was quite alone really, whether he was good to eat, and whether Gollum was really hungry.†   (source)
  • Then as is the nature of folk that are thoroughly perplexed, they began to grumble at the hobbit, blaming him for what had at first so pleased them: for bringing away a cup and stirring up Smaug's wrath so soon.†   (source)
  • Touch and go!" But, of course, Gandalf had made a special study of bewitchments with fire and lights (even the hobbit had never forgotten the magic fireworks at Old Took's midsummer-eve parties, as you remember).†   (source)
  • Even the dwarves felt it, who were used to tunnelling, and lived at times for long whiles without the light of the sun; but the hobbit, who liked holes to make a house in but not to spend summer days in, felt he was being slowly suffocated.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Somehow or other Fili was got on to the branch, and then he did his best to help the hobbit, although he was feeling very sick and ill from spider-poison, and from hanging most of the night and the next day wound round and round with only his nose to breathe through.†   (source)
  • If you want food, and if you want to go on with this silly adventure— it's yours after all and not mine-you had better slap your arms and rub your legs and try and help me get the others out while there is a chance!" Thorin of course saw the sense of this, so after a few more groans he got up and helped the hobbit as well as he could.†   (source)
  • The hobbit felt quite crushed, and as there seemed nothing else to do he did go to bed; and while the dwarves were still singing songs he dropped asleep, still puzzling his little head about Beorn, till he dreamed a dream of hundreds of black bears dancing slow heavy dances round and round in the moonlight in the courtyard.†   (source)
  • The dwarves could not, course, compare with the hobbit in real stealth, and the made a deal of puffing and shuffling which echoes magnified alarmingly; but though every now and again Bilbo in fear stopped and listened, not a sound stirred below Near the bottom, as well as he could judge, Bilbo slipped on his ring and went ahead.†   (source)
  • For Thorin had taken heart again hearing how the hobbit had rescued his companions from the spiders, and was determined once more not to ransom himself with promises to the king of a share in the treasure, until all hope of escaping in any other way had disappeared; until in fact the remarkable Mr. Invisible Baggins (of whom he began to have a very high opinion indeed) had altogether failed to think of something clever.†   (source)
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