By J. R. R. Tolkien
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"If you take care of trips there and again, out of the cozy Western international, over the sting of the Wild, and residential back, and will take an curiosity in a humble hero (blessed with a bit knowledge and a bit braveness and significant solid luck), here's a list of the sort of trip and one of these vacationer. The interval is the traditional time among the age of Faerie and the kingdom of fellows, while the well-known woodland of Mirkwood used to be nonetheless status, and the mountains have been choked with risk. In following the trail of this humble adventurer, you are going to study incidentally (as he did) -- for those who don't already be aware of all approximately these items -- a lot approximately trolls, goblins, dwarves, and elves, and get a few glimpses into the background and politics of a ignored yet vital interval. For Mr. Bilbo Baggins visited quite a few awesome people; conversed with the dragon, Smaug the remarkable; and was once current, quite unwillingly, on the conflict of the 5 Armies. this is often all of the extra notable, considering that he was once a hobbit. Hobbits have hitherto been omitted in background and legend, possibly simply because they in general hottest convenience to pleasure. yet this account, in line with his own memoirs, of the single intriguing 12 months within the differently quiet lifetime of Mr. Baggins provides you with a good concept of the estimable humans now (it is related) turning into fairly infrequent. they don't like noise."
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The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river. This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.
If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling any one there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted. Poor Bilbo couldn’t bear it any longer. At may never return he began to feel a shriek coming up inside, and very soon it burst out like the whistle of an engine coming out of a tunnel. All the dwarves sprang up, knocking over the table. Gandalf struck a blue light 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.
Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don’t remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! ” “Gandalf, Gandalf! Good gracious me! Not the wandering wizard that gave Old Took a pair of magic diamond studs that fastened themselves and never came undone till ordered? Not the fellow who used to tell such wonderful tales at parties, about dragons and goblins and giants and the rescue of princesses and the unexpected luck of widows’ sons? Not the man that used to make such particularly excellent fireworks!
