The Hobbit Excerpt
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Anek Sirte from The Hobbit by J. R R. Talking scuttling as fast as his legs with Carry Him, he turned the last corner and came suddenly right into an open space where the light, after all that time in the dark seemed dazzling. Bright, really. It was only a leak of sunshine in through a doorway where the great door, a stone door, was left standing open. Bilbo blinked. And then suddenly he saw the government goblins and full armor with drawn sword, sitting just inside the door and watching it with wide eyes and watching the passage that led to it. They were aroused, alert, ready for anything. They saw him sooner than he saw them. Yes, they saw him, whether it was an accident or a last trick of the ring before it took a new master. It was not on his finger. With yells of delight! The goblins rushed upon him. A pang of fear and loss, like an echo of Gollum's misery, smoked Bilbo and forgetting even to draw his sword. He struck his hands into his pockets, and there was the ring, still in his left pocket, and it slipped on his finger. The goblins stopped short, they could not see a sign of him. He had vanished the yield twice as loud as before, but not so delighted. Lee, Where is it? They cried. Go back up the passage! Some shouted this way, some your that way. Others yield. Look out for the door bell of the captain. Whistles blew armor, clashed. Swords rattled goblins. Kirsten swore and ran hither and thither, falling over one another in getting very angry. There was a terrible outcry to do and disturbance. Bilbo was dreadfully frightened, but he had the sense to understand what had happened and to sneak behind a big barrel, which held drink for the goblin guards and so get out of the way and avoid being bumped into, trampled to death or cut by feel.