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He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.
The explanation did not seem to explain.
“Go back?� he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!�
His rage passes description—the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
“Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!�
