H 17 The Clouds Burst

17.000 {h} The Clouds Burst
17.001 {p} Next day the … changed.
17.002 {p} “That will be … messenger.
17.003 {p} About midday the … wood.
17.004 {p} “Hail Thorin!” said … mind?”
17.005 {p} “My mind does … me.”
17.006 {p} “Is there then … gold?”
17.007 {p} “Nothing that you … offer.”
17.008 {p} “What of the … morning.
17.009 {p} Then Thorin was … while.
17.010 {p} Thorin at length … thieves?”
17.011 {p} “We are not … own.”
17.012 {p} “How came you … rage.
17.013 {p} “I gave it … fright.
17.014 {p} “You! You!” cried … rabbit.
17.015 {p} “By the beard … arms.
17.016 {p} “Stay! Your wish … say!”
17.017 {p} “You all seem … rats?”
17.018 {p} “Dear me! Dear … that!”
17.019 {p} “I will,” said … him.
17.020 {p} “Get down now … down.”
17.021 {p} “What about the … Bilbo.
17.022 {p} “That shall follow … down!”
17.023 {p} “Until then we … Bard.
17.024 {p} “You are not … yet.”
17.025 {p} “They may indeed,” … reward.
17.026 {p} And so Bilbo … going.
17.027 {p} “Farewell!” he cried … friends.”
17.028 {p} “Be off!” called … swift!”
17.029 {p} “Not so hasty!” … farewell!”
17.030 {p} With that they … speed.
17.031 {ps} That day passed … grim.
17.032 {p} Trumpets called men … Bilbo.
17.033 {p} “We are sent … guarded.
17.034 {p} Bard, of course, … numbers.
17.035 {p} These were, in … bank.
17.036 {p} “Fools!” laughed Bard, … rested!”
17.037 {p} But the Elvenking … blows.”
17.038 {p} But he reckoned … debated.
17.039 {p} Suddenly without a … joined.
17.040 {p} Still more suddenly … wings.
17.041 {p} “Halt!” cried Gandalf, … train!”
17.041-fn {fn} Son of Azog. … p.24
17.042 {p} Amazement and confusion … voices.
17.043 {p} “Come!” called Gandalf. … us!”
17.044 {p} So began a … assault.
17.045 {p} This is the … help.
17.046 {p} Soon the thunder … dread.
17.047 {p} “To the Mountain!” … time!”
17.048 {p} On the Southern … disorder.
17.049 {p} It was a … swordsman.
17.050 {p} The elves were … blood.
17.051 {p} Just as the … swords.
17.052 {p} Panic came upon … above.
17.053 {p} Goblins had scaled … tide.
17.054 {p} Day drew on. … Ravenhill.
17.055 {p} Suddenly there was … fire.
17.056 {p} Rocks were hurled … him.
17.057 {p} “To me! To … valley.
17.058 {p} Down, heedless of … ranks.
17.059 {p} Already behind him … down.
17.060 {p} On all this … end.
17.061 {p} That did not … it.”
17.062 {p} The clouds were … glow.
17.063 {p} “The Eagles! The … coming!”
17.064 {p} Bilbo’s eyes were … North.
17.065 {p} “The Eagles! the … Mountain.
17.066 {p} “The Eagles!” cried … more.