Since he just started I tried to not give away the ending.

Barry Schwarz OS/390 Systems Programmer Phone: 253-773-4221 Fax: 253-773-1257 Mail stop: 80-JE e-mail: barry.a.schwarz@boeing.com

> ---------- > From: William W. Viergever[SMTP:wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET] > Reply To: William W. Viergever > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:01 PM > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Fwd: Was: Speeding up Analyses on PCs -- NOW, it's OT: > Thorin > > >At 01:45 PM 2/28/2002 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: > >>It's from The Hobbit. Thorin doesn't appear in the trilogy and by the > time > >>the events in the trilogy occur Bilbo is too experienced to make such an > >>outburst. > > Barry's spot on: > > >'So began a battle that none had expected; and it was called the Battle > of > >Five Armies, and it was very terrible. Upon one side were the Goblins and snip