10-21-2004, 08:37 PM | #1 |
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The Hobbit opener
My son is doing a report for school on the Hobbit. Help we have a book missing the first 15 pages and one of the questions is " What is the opening line of the book" please help
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10-21-2004, 08:46 PM | #2 |
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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 a bare dry one, with nowhere to sit on. It was a hobbit hole and that means confort. It had a perfectly round door like a portal...
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From the Harper Collins edition - 1996
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11-22-2004, 12:00 AM | #4 |
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Not just the most famous
probably the best. I mean how perfect is it. I have it memorized.I mean it just about sums up the book too. It sets the whole mood for the book. I mean whoa...
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11-26-2004, 07:31 PM | #5 |
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i think there is a website that i visited recently that had the first chapter downloadable on pdf. i forget where i found the link... possibly theonering.net hmm... maybe ill look around for it
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11-26-2004, 07:37 PM | #6 |
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here ya go buddy:
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Did you know...
That the opening line was scibbled on a test J.R.R. Tolken was gradeing (Tolken scribbled it, so no one else is to blame )
This has been a Did you know... from me9996 the tread wizzard (But for know stuck on hobbit) Update:I'm now near elf lord!
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01-07-2005, 03:34 PM | #8 |
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i'll tell
i'll be glad to tell you what goes on in the frist 15 pages Bookworm. the frist fifteen pages are a map and gadolfs reaqantice with billbo
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yeah, thats pretty much what happens...
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