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Bilbo: A Short Story

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When Bilbo opened his eyes, he wondered if it was as dark as it was with his eyes shut. Bilbo couldn’t hear, see, or feel anything but the stone of the floor. Bilbo got up until he touched the wall of the tunnel. He couldn’t find anything up or down, no signs of goblins or dwarves. Bilbo was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he fell. He guessed and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of metal lying on the tunnel floor. It was a change in his career but he did not know it.

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