There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

I don’t really need to review the Hobbit. It’s a delightful book and you’ve probably already read it. If you haven’t, you should.

What I can do though is highly HIGHLY recommend listening to the audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis (the voice of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies). Oh, he’s good. And not just as Gollum, but as everyone.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.'

I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!