The Hobbit (Middle Earth, #0)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something (or so Thorin said to the young dwarves).

their small knives, the only weapons they had, would have been of no use against the arrows of the elves that could hit a bird’s eye in the dark.

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.