{1153}{1194}Hear you now...
{1205}{1272}...a story of good against evil.
{1287}{1370}An epoch that has its beginning|at an ending...
{1388}{1441}...and ends at a beginning.
{1465}{1559}Listen, as we speak of the fall|of a lord of darkness...
{1571}{1639}...and the return of a king of light.
{1662}{1748}Concern yourselves|with armies and wizards...
{1761}{1814}...phantoms and emperors...
{1816}{1942}...cloud-capped towers|and bloodied fields of horrendous carnage.
{1974}{2019}Consider no less...
{2022}{2077}...than the cataclysmic transformation...
{2079}{2160}...of that ancient world|of wonder and magic...
{2168}{2247}...to the world we know now, of Man.
{2285}{2367}What mighty lord, you may ask,|is hero enough...
{2373}{2461}...to evoke such cosmic metamorphosis?
{2550}{2636}Why, no lord at all,|but the littlest of fellows...
{2660}{2705}...Frodo the Hobbit...
{2708}{2774}...and his faithful squire, Samwise.
{2808}{2909}Who, beginning at the ending,|now approach Rivendell...
{2917}{2976}...the Elvish home of Elrond...
{2985}{3075}...there to help celebrate|the 129th birthday...
{3092}{3149}...of Frodo's aged kin...
{3166}{3269}...Bilbo Baggins,|renowned tormentor of dragons.
{3290}{3438}Bless my soul!|You're a match for Smaug himself.
{3690}{3755}All of us, Frodo and Samwise...
{3772}{3853}...their Hobbit companions,|Merry and Pippin...
{3858}{3964}...EIrond the Elf-Lord, and l, Gandalf...
{3983}{4049}...wished Bilbo only the best.
{4081}{4152}But as we celebrated|far into the Elvish night...
{4154}{4261}...we found it difficult|to keep our aging guest of honor awake.
{4290}{4364}Nay, Pippin. Not till Bilbo has cut it.
{4372}{4465}Blast. What a time to fall asleep.
{4476}{4520}Who's asleep?
{4527}{4590}Just resting my eyes...
{4601}{4663}...and remembering.
{4708}{4772}There And Back Again...
{4777}{4847}...and what happened after.
{4859}{4900}Remembering, sir?
{4912}{4957}So many things.
{4966}{5015}Old Smaug...
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