Each one of his folk was clad in a hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees, and his legs were covered with hose of a fine and flexible metal mesh, the secret of whose making was possessed by Dain's people. The dwarves are exceedingly strong for their height, but most of these were strong even for dwarves
Why isn’t Bilbo found until the day after the battle
In RuneScape, if you wear a ring of forging while making iron bars, your success rate will be 100%. Without it (and if you don't use the "superheat item" spell either), your chance of success is between 50% and 80%, depending on your smithing level.
You go to the in-game options menu. You click save. It will show a screen with all of your saved games. You type a name for your save and click save. Alternatively you could save it as an existing game.
There are various Lord of the Games. Many of them are on the computer but there are games that involve physical models. There is Lord of the Ring Strategy Battle Game (SBG) and War of the Ring (WOTR) both of these have extensive rulebooks and minitures which are sold through Games Workshop.
There was no family relationship. Sam was Frodo's gardener, and Frodo was Bilbo's cousin. Sam was the son of Gaffer Gamgee who probably helped with the gardening at Bag's End for Bilbo's family.
Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Boromir, Faramir, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Sauron, Sauroman, Theodin, eowyn, Arwyn, Galadriel
*Gasp, Gasp* Feel free to jump in any time LOTR fans!
There were many events in his life that affected his writing, whether directly or indirectly. He had memories of trees cut down in his neighborhood. He was bit by a spider as a young child. He served in the trenches in World War 1. He had a romantic marriage. He lost his parents at an early age.
He essentially inspired every epic fantasy author after him. Read: every epic fantasy author after him copied names, sometimes plot structure, and race/characters. Christopher Paolini, R.A. Salvatore, Guy Gavriel Kay, etc.
William Golding's record as a war hero made readers interested in his views on violence.
In the 1930s.
No it was later than that. It wasn't started until after The Hobbit was published (which was in 1937) and wasn't completed until the mid 1950s - the final volume was published in 1955.
Georg and Ulrich screamed for help. They saw someone or something running down the hill towards them.
Gollum asked several riddles. Here they are:
Answer: A Mountain.
Answer: The Wind
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. it comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter.
Answer: The Dark
Answer: A Fish
Answer: Time
Gollum asked several riddles. Here they are:
Answer: A Mountain.
Answer: The Wind
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. it comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter.
Answer: The Dark
Answer: A Fish
Answer: Time
Aside from writing, he was a professor of English language. He worked on the Oxford English Dictionary and then in 1925 went to Pembroke College, Oxford as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon. He was there until 1945 where he moved to Merton College, Oxford to be Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. He retired in 1959.
"His [Smaug's] rage passes description--the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted."
because the water would put him to sleep and carry him down the river and kill him.
Which book, which part? There could be several answers, you haven't provided enough info. The first thing that comes to mind are the eagles from The Hobbit ... but there's no way to tell without more info.
Gandalf came to their rescue in Chapter 4 using "Glamdring the Foehammer."
This one:
"His [Smaug's] rage passes description--the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted."
They became trapped in the mountain because Bilbo felt danger outside so they came in ans closed the secret door