SUO: *Date 25 Jan 2002
¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤
| The day after the battle with the spiders Bilbo and the dwarves
| made one last despairing effort to find a way out before they died
| of hunger and thirst. They got up and staggered on in the direction
| which eight out of the thirteen of them guessed to be the one in which
| the path lay; but they never found out if they were right.
|
| J.R.R. Tolkien,
|'The Hobbit, or There and Back Again',
| Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 2001, p. 185.
| First published by George Allen & Unwin, 1937.
¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤