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Автор: Alan Lee
Издательство: HarperCollins
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isbn: 9780007487318
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      CONTENTS

       COVER PAGE

       TITLE PAGE

       MAPS

       CHAPTER VI: OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE

       CHAPTER VII: QUEER LODGINGS

       CHAPTER VIII: FLIES AND SPIDERS

       CHAPTER IX: BARRELS OUT OF BOND

       CHAPTER X: A WARM WELCOME

       CHAPTER XI: ON THE DOORSTEP

       CHAPTER XII: INSIDE INFORMATION

       CHAPTER XIII: NOT AT HOME

       CHAPTER XIV: FIRE AND WATER

       CHAPTER XV: THE GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS

       CHAPTER XVI: A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

       CHAPTER XVII: THE CLOUDS BURST

       CHAPTER XVIII: THE RETURN JOURNEY

       CHAPTER XIX: THE LAST STAGE

       WORKS BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN

       COPYRIGHT

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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       Author's Note

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      This is a story of long ago. At that time the languages and letters were quite different from ours of today. English is used to represent the languages. But two points may be noted. (1) In English the only correct plural of dwarf is dwarfs, and the adjective is dwarfish. In this story dwarves and dwarvish are used*, but only when speaking of the ancient people to whom Thorin Oakenshield and his companions belonged. (2) Orc is not an English word. It occurs in one or two places but is usually translated goblin (or hobgoblin for the larger kinds). Orc is the hobbits’ form of the name given at that time to these creatures, and it is not connected at all with our orc, ork, applied to sea-animals of dolphin-kind.

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      The last two runes are the initials of Thror and Thrain. The moon-runes read by Elrond were:

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      On the Map the compass points are marked in runes, with East at the top, as usual in dwarf-maps, and so read clockwise: E(ast), S(outh), W(est), N(orth).

       CHAPTER I

       An Unexpected Party

      In 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, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

      It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow 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