“Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea―any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Come tomorrow! Good bye!”
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit… This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses have lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say to any question without the bother of asking him. This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.”