The door opened on to a tube-shaped halllike a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, andfloors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegsfor hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shinyyellow brass knob in the exact middle. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled withthe ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothingin it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. Names areoften repeated in dynasties, and the genealogies show that a distant ancestor ofThror was referred to, Thrain I, a fugitive from Moria, who first discovered theLonely Mountain, Erebor, and ruled there for a while, before his people moved onto the remoter mountains of the North.Ĭhapter I An Unexpected PartyIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. On Thror's Map is written Here of old was Thrain King under theMountain yet Thrain was the son of Thror, the last King under the Mountainbefore the coming of the dragon.

A final note may be added, on a point raised by several students of the lore ofthe period.

Its explanation lies in the history of the Ring, as it was set out in the chroniclesof the Red Book of Westmarch, and is now told in The Lord of the Rings. It does not, however, concern the present story, and those whoin this edition make their first acquaintance with hobbit-lore need not troupe aboutit. There the truestory of the ending of the Riddle Game, as it was eventually revealed (underpressure) by Bilbo to Gandalf, is now given according to the Red Book, in placeof the version Bilbo first gave to his friends, and actually set down in his diary.This departure from truth on the part of a most honest hobbit was a portent ofgreat significance. More important is the matter of Chapter Five. For example, the rune text now corresponds exactly with the runeson Thror's Map. SPECIAL NOTE: In this reprint several minor inaccuracies, most of them noted by readers, havebeen corrected.

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