H 05 Riddles in the Dark

05.000 {h} Riddles in the Dark
05.001 {p} When Bilbo opened … floor.
05.002 {p} Very slowly he … miserabler.
05.003 {p} He could not … while.
05.004 {p} After some time … breeches.
05.005 {p} Now he drew … enough.”
05.006 {p} But somehow he … suddenly.
05.007 {p} “Go back?” he … pitter.
05.008 {ps} Now certainly Bilbo … ago.
05.009 {p} I should not … beyond.
05.010 {p} Suddenly without any … sound.
05.011 {p} “So it is … about.
05.012 {p} Deep down here … back.
05.013 {p} Actually Gollum lived … all.
05.014 {p} Gollum got into … hissed:
05.015 {p} “Bless us and … precious’.
05.016 {p} The hobbit jumped … him.
05.017 {p} “Who are you?” … him.
05.018 {p} “What iss he, … afterwards.
05.019 {p} “I am Mr. … away.”
05.020 {p} “What’s he got … like.
05.021 {p} “A sword, a … Gondolin!”
05.022 {p} “Sssss” said Gollum, … mountains.
05.023 {p} “Very well,” said … goblins.
05.024 {p} “You ask first,” … riddle.
05.025 {p} So Gollum hissed:
05.026 {lg} What has roots … grows?
05.027 {p} “Easy!” said Bilbo. … suppose.”
05.028 {p} “Does it guess … yes!”
05.029 {p} “All right!” said … eaten.
05.030 {lg} Thirty white horses … still.
05.031 {p} That was all … do.
05.032 {p} “Chestnuts, chestnuts,” he … second:
05.033 {lg} Voiceless it cries, … mutters.
05.034 {p} “Half a moment!” … thought:
05.035 {lg} An eye in … place.”
05.036 {p} “Ss, ss, ss,” … does.”
05.037 {p} But these ordinary … unpleasant:
05.038 {lg} It cannot be … laughter.
05.039 {p} Unfortunately for Gollum … cap.
05.040 {lg} A box without … hid,
05.041 {p} he asked to … spluttered.
05.042 {p} After some while … making.”
05.043 {p} “Give us a … preciouss—ss—ss.”
05.044 {p} “Well,” said Bilbo … guess?”
05.045 {p} But suddenly Gollum … asked:
05.046 {lg} Alive without breath, … clinking.
05.047 {p} He also in … came.
05.048 {p} After a while … darkness.
05.049 {p} “Half a moment,” … now.”
05.050 {p} “It must make … toes.
05.051 {p} “Ugh!” he said, … fish!”
05.052 {p} Gollum was dreadfully … think.
05.053 {qt} No-legs lay on … some.
05.054 {p} It was not … said:
05.055 {lg} This thing all … down.
05.056 {p} Poor Bilbo sat … was:
05.057 {qt} “Time! Time!”
05.058 {p} Bilbo was saved … answer.
05.059 {p} Gollum was disappointed … wits.
05.060 {p} “It’s got to … Gollum.
05.061 {p} But Bilbo simply … anything.
05.062 {p} “Ask us! ask … Gollum.
05.063 {p} Bilbo pinched himself … about.
05.064 {p} “What have I … upset.
05.065 {p} “Not fair! not … pocketses?”
05.066 {p} Bilbo seeing what … louder.
05.067 {p} “S-s-s-s-s,” hissed Gollum. … guesseses.”
05.068 {p} “Very well! Guess … Bilbo.
05.069 {p} “Handses!” said Gollum.
05.070 {p} “Wrong,” said Bilbo, … again!”
05.071 {p} “S-s-s-s-s,” said Gollum … pockets.
05.072 {p} “Knife!” he said … last.
05.073 {p} “Wrong!” said Bilbo, … guess!”
05.074 {p} Now Gollum was … guess.
05.075 {p} “Come on!” said … not.
05.076 {p} “Time’s up!” he said.
05.077 {p} “String, or nothing!” … once.
05.078 {p} “Both wrong,” cried … laws.
05.079 {p} But at any … longer.
05.080 {p} “Well?” he said. … way.”
05.081 {p} “Did we say … gollum!”
05.082 {p} “Never you mind,” … promise.”
05.083 {p} “Cross it is, … us.”
05.084 {p} “Well, hurry up!” … plan.
05.085 {p} Not far away … ring.
05.086 {p} “My birthday-present!” he … it!”
05.087 {p} He wanted it … faint.
05.088 {p} “My birthday-present! It … softer.
05.089 {p} “Quite safe, yes,” … quite.”
05.090 {p} That is what … alone.
05.091 {p} Suddenly he heard … vain.
05.092 {p} “Where iss it? … lost!”
05.093 {p} “What’s the matter?” … lost?”
05.094 {p} “It mustn’t ask … gollum.”
05.095 {p} “Well, so am … shouted.
05.096 {p} “No, not yet, … gollum.”
05.097 {p} “But you never … Bilbo.
05.098 {p} “Never guessed!” said … first.”
05.099 {p} As far as … said.
05.100 {p} “But it wasn’t … no.”
05.101 {p} “Oh well, if … that!”
05.102 {p} “What has it … flame.
05.103 {p} “What have you … persisted.
05.104 {p} But now the … him.
05.105 {p} Bilbo could not … hand.
05.106 {p} “What has it … forefinger.
05.107 {p} The hiss was … him.
05.108 {p} In a moment … ran.
05.109 {p} What could it … to.
05.110 {p} “Curse it! curse … birthday-present.”
05.111 {p} Bilbo pricked up … walls.
05.112 {p} “My birthday-present! Curse … gollum.”
05.113 {p} Suddenly Gollum sat … himself.
05.114 {p} “It’s no good … says.”
05.115 {p} “We guesses, precious, … so.”
05.116 {p} “It said so, … it.”
05.117 {p} “The goblinses will … precious.”
05.118 {p} “Ssss, sss, gollum! … gollum!”
05.119 {p} “Then let’s stop … haste!”
05.120 {p} With a spring … side.
05.121 {p} On they went, … them.
05.122 {p} “One left, yes. … on.
05.123 {p} As the count … up.
05.124 {p} “Seven right, yes. … passage!”
05.125 {p} He peered in, … Ssss!”
05.126 {p} “What shall we … see.”
05.127 {p} So they came … knees.
05.128 {p} Bilbo crept away … spring.
05.129 {p} Bilbo almost stopped … leaped.
05.130 {p} No great leap … passage.
05.131 {p} Gollum threw himself … behind:
05.132 {p} “Thief, thief, thief! … ever!”
05.133 {p} Then there was … things.”
05.134 {p} The passage was … ground.
05.135 {p} Soon the passage … run.
05.136 {p} Scuttling as fast … open.
05.137 {p} Bilbo blinked, and … anything.
05.138 {p} They saw him … him.
05.139 {p} A pang of … delightedly.
05.140 {p} “Where is it?” … cried.
05.141 {p} “Go back up … shouted.
05.142 {p} “This way!” some … yelled.
05.143 {p} “Look out for … captain.
05.144 {p} Whistles blew, armour … disturbance.
05.145 {p} Bilbo was dreadfully … feel.
05.146 {p} “I must get … door.
05.147 {p} It was still … through.
05.148 {p} Suddenly one of … outside!”
05.149 {p} Bilbo’s heart jumped … doorstep.
05.150 {p} Of course they … escaped.