He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.