hi my name is Anna this is English like
a native and today we're doing an ASMR
English lesson. now I say English
lesson
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down relax and simply listen to English
pronunciation. so today I'm going to read
you a few pages from one of my favorite
stories The Hobbit if you enjoy this as
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one an unexpected party in a hole in the
ground there lived a hobbit not a nasty
dirty wet hole filled with the ends of
worms and an oozy smell nor yet a dirty
bare sandy hole with nothing in it to
sit on or to eat it was a hobbit hole
and that means comfort it had a
perfectly round door like a porthole
painted green with a shiny yellow brass
knob in the exact middle the door opened
onto a tube shaped hole like a tunnel a
very
comfortable tunnel without smoke, with
paneled walls and floor tiles and
carpeted, provided with polished chairs
and lots and lots of pegs for hats and
coats (the hobbit was fond of visitors)
the tunnel wound on and on going fairly
but not quite straight into the side of
the hill - the hill as all the people from
many miles around called it - and many
little round doors opened out of it,
first on one side and then on another. no
going upstairs for The Hobbit. bedrooms
bathrooms cellars pantries (lots of these)
wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to
clothes) kitchens dining rooms all were
on the same floor and indeed on the same
passage the best rooms were all on the
left-hand side going in, for these were
the only rooms to have windows deep set
round windows looking out over his
garden and meadows beyond sloping down
to the river. this Hobbit was a very
well-to-do hobbit and his name was
Baggins. the Bagginses have lived in the
neighbourhood of the hill for time out
of mind and people consider them very
respectable not only because most of
them were rich but also because they
never had any adventures or did anything
unexpected you could tell you could tell
what a Baggins would say on any question
without the bother of asking him this is
a story of how a Baggins had an
adventure
and found himself doing and saying
things altogether unexpected he may have
lost the neighborhood's respect but he
gained well you will see whether he
gained anything in the end the mother of
our particular hobbit what is a hobbit I
suppose hobbits need some description
nowadays since they have become rare and
shy of the big people as they call us
they are or were a little people about
half our height and smaller than the
bearded dwarves hobbies have no beards
there is little or no magic about them
except the ordinary everyday sword which
helps them to disappear quietly and
quickly when large stupid folk like you
and me come blundering along making a
noise like elephants which they can hear
a mile off they are inclined to be fat
in the stomach they dress in bright
colours chiefly green and yellow where
no shoes because their feet grow natural
leathery soles and thick warm brown hair
like the stuff on their heads which is
curly
they have long clever brown fingers
good-natured faces and laugh deep fruity
laughs especially after dinner which
they have twice a day when they can get
it now you know enough to go on with as
I was saying the mother of this Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins that is was the famous
belladonna took one of the three
remarkable daughters of the old Duke
head of the hobbits who lived across the
water the small river they ran at the
foot of the hill it was often said in
other families that long ago one of the
toque ancestors must have taken a fairy
wife that was of course absurd but
certainly there were still something not
entirely a bit like about them and once
in a while members of the two clan would
go and have adventures they discreetly
disappeared and the family hushed it up
but the fact remained that the tooks
were not as respectable as the Bagginses
though they were undoubtedly richer not
that belladonna toque
ever had any adventures after she became
mrs. bungo Baggins Bongo that was
Bilbo's father built the most luxurious
hobbit hole for her and Polly with her
money that was to be found either under
the hill or over the hill or across the
water and there they remained to the end
of their days still it is probable that
Bilbo her only son although he looked
and behaved exactly like a second
edition of his solid and comfortable
father got something a bit queer in his
makeup from the took side something that
only waited for a chance to come out the
chance never arrived until Bilbo Baggins
was grown up being about fifty years old
or so and living in the beautiful hobbit
hole built by his father which I've just
described for you until he had in fact
apparently settled down amove ibly by
some curious chance one morning long ago
in the quiet of the world when
there was less noise and more green and
the hobbits were still numerous and
prosperous and Bilbo Baggins were
standing at his door after breakfast
smoking an enormous long wooden pipe
that reached nearly down his wooly toes
neatly brushed Gandalf came by Gandalf
if you have heard only a quarter of what
I have heard about him and I have only
heard very little of all there is to
hear you would be prepared for any sort
of remarkable tale tales and adventures
sprouted up all over the place when ever
he went in the most extraordinary
fashion he had not been that way down
under the hill for ages and ages not
since his friend the old who died in
fact and the hobbits had almost
forgotten what he looked like he had
been away over the hill and across the
water on business of his own since they
were all small Hobbit boys and Hobbit
girls all that the unsuspecting Bilbo
saw that morning was an old man with the
staff he had a tall pointed blue hat a
long gray cloak a silver scarf over
which his long white beard hung down
below his waist and immense black boots
good morning said Bilbo and he meant it
the sun was shining and the grass was
very green the Gandalf looked at him
from under his long bushy eyebrows that
stuck out further than the brim of his
shady hat what do you mean he said
do you wish me a good morning or mean
that it is a good morning whether I want
it or not
or that you feel good this morning or
that it is a morning to be good on
all of them at once said Bilbo and a
very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco
out of doors into the bargain if you
have a pipe about you sit down and have
a fill of mine there's no hurry we have
all the day before us then Bilbo sat
down on a seat by his door crossed his
legs and blew out a beautiful gray ring
of smoke that sailed up into the air
without braking and floated away over
the hill very pretty
second off but I have no time to blow
smoke rings this morning I am looking
for someone to share in an adventure
that I'm arranging and it's very
difficult to find anyone I should think
so in these parts we are playing quiet
folk and I have no use for adventures
nasty disturbing uncomfortable things
make you late for dinner I can't think
what anybody sees in them said our mr.
Baggins and stuck one thumb behind his
braces and blew out another even bigger
smoke ring then he took out his mourning
letters and began to read pretending to
take no more notice of the old man
he had decided that he was not quite his
sort and wanted him to go away
but the old man did not move he stood
leaning on his stick and gazing at the
Hobbit without saying anything till
Bilbo got quite uncomfortable and even a
little cross we're going to leave it
there today
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