Friday 56: Tolkien, Anyone?

The Friday 56 is a weekly booking meme courtesy of the nice folks at Freda’s Voice. I’ve been wanting to add it as a just-for-fun feature here for awhile, and since I’m about to start my Tolkien series back up at Part Time Monster, this seems a good week to start. 🙂

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post to the Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.
*It’s that simple.

From The Hobbit:

They came on unexpected valleys, narrow with deep sides, that opened suddenly at their feet, and they looked down surprised to see trees below them and running water at the bottom. There were gullies that they could almost leap over, but very deep waterfalls in them. There were dark ravines that one could neither jump nor climb into. There were bogs, some of them green pleasant places to look at, with flowers growing bright and tall, but a pony that walked there with a pack on its back would never have come out again.