There And Back Again

[Firefoot]

Yeppers.

[Sirithheruwen]

Describe a hobbit hole. (Straight from the book, if you can.)

[Firefoot]

Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of womrs and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat. It was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable hole without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats- the hobbit was found of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill - The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it - and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for this hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole room devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.

Phew!

[Sirithheruwen]

Yes! Sorry, I couldn't resist. Go ahead Firefoot!

[Firefoot]

When and why did Bilbo name his sword?

[NightKnight]

I believe it was in Mirkwood when he was fighting the spiders, and he named it Sting because he was like a stinging bee.

[Firefoot]

Yes.