The Hobbit

Chapter 16 A Thief in the Night

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"It was as if a globe had been filled with moonlight and hung before them in a net woven of the glint of frosty stars."

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This quote refers to the Arkenstone, and Thorin's memories.... he is in a somber, dreamy state, as the dwarves shared their stories.

"The Arkenstone! The Arkenstone!" murmured Thorin in the dark, half dreaming with his chin upon his knees. "It was like a globe with a thousand facets; it shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun, like snow under the stars, like rain upon the Moon!"

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The Hobbit