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Hobbit\n\nThe Hobbit  \nThe Hobbit  \nIn this reprint several minor inaccuracies,most of them noted byreaders,have been corrected.For example,the text on pages 32 and 62 nowcorresponds exactly with the runes on Thror's Map.More important is thematter of Chapter Five.There the true story of the ending of the RiddleGame,as it was eventually revealed (under pressure)by Bilbo to Gandalf,is now given according to the Red Book,in place of the version Bilbo firstgave to his friends,and actually set down in his diary.This departure fromtruth on the part of a most honest hobbit was a portent of great significance.It does not,however,concern the present story,and those who in thisedition make their first acquaintance with hobbit-lore need not troupe aboutit.Its explanation lies in the history of the Ring,as it was set out in thechronicles of the Red Book of Westmarch,and is now told in The Lord ofthe Rings.  \nA final note may be added,on a point raised by several students of thelore of the period.On Thror's Map is written Here of old was Thrain Kingunder the Mountain;yet Thrain was the son of Thror,the last King underthe Mountain before the coming of the dragon.The Map,however,is not inerror.Names are often repeated in dynasties,and the genealogies show thata distant ancestor of Thror was referred to,Thrain I,a fugitive from Moria,who first discovered the Lonely Mountain,Erebor,and ruled there for awhile,before his people moved on to the remoter mountains of the North.  \nThe Hobbit  \nSearch onIelegram@hatakOkS  \n# Chapter I\n\nAn Unexpected Party  \nI  \nn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.Not a nasty,dirty,wet hole,filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell,nor yet a dry,bare,sandyhole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat:it was a hobbit-hole,and thatmeans comfort.  \nIt had a perfectly round door like a porthole,painted green,with a shinyyellow brass knob in the exact middle.The door opened on to a tube-shapedhall like a tunnel:a very comfortable tunnel without smoke,with panelledwalls,and floors tiled and carpeted,provided with polished chairs,and lotsand lots of pegs for hats and coats -the hobbit was fond of visitors.Thetunnel wound on and on,going fairly but not quite straight into the side ofthe hill -The Hill,as all the people for many miles round called it -andmany little round doors opened out of it,first on one side and then onanother.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 samepassage.The best rooms were all on the left-hand side(going in),for thesewere the only ones to have windows,deep-set round windows looking overhis garden and meadows beyond,sloping down to the river.  \nThis 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 ofmind,and people considered them very respectable,not only because mostof them were rich,but also because they never had any adventures or didanything unexpected:you could tell what a Baggins would say on anyquestion without the bother of asking him.This is a story of how a Bagginshad an adventure,found himself doing and saying things altogetherunexpected.He may have lost the neighbours'respect,but he gained-well,you will see whether he gained anything in the end.  \nThe mother of our particular hobbit ...what is a hobbit?I supposehobbits need some description nowadays,since they have become rare and  \nshy of the Big People,as they call us.They are(or were)a little people,about half our height,and smaller than the bearded Dwarves.Hobbits haveno beards.There is little or no magic about them,except the ordinaryeveryday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when largestupid folk like you and me come blundering along,making a noise likeelephants which they can hear a mile off.They 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