Tolkien Gateway   Revision as of 14:55, 29 March 2013 by Antonio
100 (Talk | contribs)   "All was well, until one day they met a
thunderstorm—more than a thunderstorm, a thunder-battle. You
know how terrific a really big thunderstorm can be down in the
land and in a river-valley; especially at times when two great
thunderstorms meet and class. More terrible still are thunder
and lightning in the mountains at night, when storms come up
from East and West and make war. The lightning splinters on the
peaks, and rocks shiver, and great crashes split the air and go
rolling in tumbling into every cave and hollow; and darkness is
filled with overwhelming noise and sudden light. Bilbo had never
seen or imagined anything of the kind. … When he peeped out in
the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-
giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a
game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness
where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into
little bits