A crack had opened at the back of the cave,Īnd was already a wide passage. At that he woke up with a horrible start, and found that Then he dreamed that theįloor of the cave was giving way, and he was slipping-beginning to fallĭown, down, goodness knows where to. Heĭreamed that a crack in the wall at the back of the cave got bigger andīigger, and opened wider and wider, and he was very afraid but could notĬall out or do anything but lie and look. For somehow, he could not go to sleepįor a long while and when he did sleep, he had very nasty dreams. It turned out a good thing that night that they had brought However, this bad luck is offset by Gandalf, who shows up at precisely the right moment and confuses the Trolls as they argue over how to cook the Dwarves and Hobbit, delaying them long enough for the sun to come up and turn them all to stone.Īfter they escape the Trolls' camp, the Company finds shelter in a small cave, which, as it turns out, is the entrance to Goblin-town: When Bilbo is tasked with scouting the Trolls' camp, he has the misfortune of setting off William's squealing purse, alerting the trolls of his presence and thus getting him captured. Just let any one say I chose the wrong man or the wrong house and you can stop at thirteen and have all the bad luck you like, or go back to digging coal.įrom then on, luck seems to follow the Company in ways both subtle and more pronounced. You asked me to find the fourteenth man for your expedition, and I chose Mr Baggins.
Luck plays a pretty prominent role in The Hobbit, beginning with Bilbo Baggins himself, chosen by Gandalf to even out the odd number of Dwarves: And what better example of luck in Middle-earth than in Tolkien's The Hobbit?
It's Friday the 13th and I thought I'd get back into the swing of things by writing a quick post on luck.
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