Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!


The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1966)


Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!