Tonight while reading the Hobbit to my kids we came to the point where Bilbo crept down the passage in the Lonely Mountain to Smaug’s treasure room.
“…you can picture him coming to the end of the tunnel, an opening of much the same size and shape as the door above. Through it peeps the hobbit’s little head. Before him lies the great bottom-most cellar or dungeon-hall of the ancient dwarves right at the mountain’s root. It is almost dark so that its vastness can only be dimly guesses, but rising from the near side of the rocky floor there is a great glow. The glow of Smaug!”
“Daddy,” my daughter asked. “Is that the painting you have downstairs over the fireplace?”
Why yes, yes it is.
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