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ever they could trust the branches. You would have laughed (from a safe
distance), if you had seen the dwarves sitting up in the trees with
their beards dangling down, like old gentlemen gone cracked and playing
at being boys. Fili and Kili were at the top of a tall larch like an
enormous Christmas tree. Dori, Nori, On, Oin, and Gloin were more
comfortable in a huge pine with regular branches sticking out at
intervals like the spokes of a wheel. Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, and Thorin
were in another. Dwalin and Balin had swarmed up a tall slender fir with
few branches and were trying to find a place to sit in the greenery of
the topmost boughs. Gandalf, who was a good deal taller than the others,
had found a tree into which they could not climb, a large pine standing
at the very edge of the glade. He was quite hidden in its boughs, but
you could see his eyes gleaming in the moon as he peeped out.