18 THE RETURN JOURNEY

Chapter 18 THE RETURN JOURNEY When Bilbo came to himself, he was literally by himself. He was lying on the flat stones of Ravenhill, and no one was near. A cloudless day, but cold, was broad above him. He was shaking, and as chilled as stone, but his head burned with fire. "Now I wonder what has happened?" he said to himself. "At any rate I am not yet one of the fallen heroes; but I suppose there is still time enough for that!" He sat up painfully. Looking into the valley he could see no living goblins. After a while as his head cleared a little, he thought he could see elves moving in the rocks below. He rubbed his eyes. Surely there was a camp still in the plain some distance off; and there was a coming and going about the Gate? Dwarves seemed to be busy removing the wall. But

第18章 归程 当比尔博醒来时，四周真的只有他一个人。 他躺在渡鸦丘平坦的石头上，身边一个人都没有。 头顶是万里无云的晴天，却冷得刺骨。 他浑身发抖，冷得像石头，脑袋却烧得滚烫。 “我真想知道，现在发生了什么事？” 他暗自想着。 “反正我现在还没成为阵亡英雄，不过要轮到我，时间还多着呢！” 他忍着痛坐起身。 他望向山谷，连一个活哥布林都看不见。 过了一会儿，他脑袋稍微清醒了点，觉得自己看见下方岩石间有精灵在走动。 他揉了揉眼睛。 没错，远处平原上真的还有营地，大门那里人来人往的？ 矮人看起来正忙着拆那堵墙。 可是

all was deadly still. There was no call and no echo of a song. Sorrow seemed to be in the air. "Victory after all, I suppose!" he said, feeling his aching head. "Well, it seems a very gloomy business." Suddenly he was aware of a man climbing up and coming towards him. "Hullo there!" he called with a shaky voice. "Hullo there! What news?" "What voice is it that speaks among the stones?" said the man halting and peering about him not far from where Bilbo sat. Then Bilbo remembered his ring! "Well I'm blessed!" said he. "This invisibility has its drawbacks after all. Otherwise I suppose I might have spent a warm and comfortable night in bed!" "It's me, Bilbo Baggins, companion of Thorin!" he cried, hurriedly taking off the ring. "It is well that I have found you!" said the man striding forward. "You are needed and we have looked for you long. You would have been numbered among the dead, who are many, if Gandalf the wizard had not said that your voice was last heard in this place. I have been sent to look here for the last time. Are you much hurt?"

一切都死一般寂静。 听不到呼喊，也听不到歌声的回响。 悲伤仿佛弥漫在空气中。 “这么说，最后还是胜利了对吗？” 他摸着发疼的脑袋说道。 “可这胜利看起来也太让人开心不起来了。” 突然，他看到有个人爬上山，朝他走来。 “喂！那边有人吗！” 他用发颤的声音喊道。 “喂！ 有什么消息吗？” “是谁在石头堆里说话？”那人停下脚步，在离比尔博不远的地方四处张望，问道。 这时比尔博才想起他的戒指！ “我的天呐！”他说。 “这隐身术说到底也有缺点呀。 不然我早就舒舒服服在床上睡暖觉了！” “是我呀，比尔博·巴金斯，梭林的伙伴！” 他一边喊，一边匆忙摘下了戒指。 “能找到你太好了！”那人大步走上前说道。 “我们一直找你找了好久，现在需要你。 要不是巫师甘道夫说最后在这里听见你的声音，你就要被算进阵亡名单里了，这次死了好多人。 他们派我最后一次来这儿找你。 你伤得重吗？

"A nasty knock on the head, I think," said Bilbo. "But I have a helm and a hard skull. All the same I feel sick and my legs are like straws." "I will carry you down to the camp in the valley," said the man, and picked him lightly up. The man was swift and sure-footed. It was not long before Bilbo was set down before a tent in Dale; and there stood Gandalf, with his arm in a sling. Even the wizard had not escaped without a wound; and there were few unharmed in all the host. When Gandalf saw Bilbo, he was delighted. "Baggins!" he exclaimed. "Well I never! Alive after all—I am glad! I began to wonder if even your luck would see you through! A terrible business, and it nearly was disastrous. But other news can wait. Come!" he said more gravely. "You are called for;" and leading the hobbit he took him within the tent. "Hail! Thorin," he said as he entered. "I have brought him." There indeed lay Thorin Oakenshield, wounded with many wounds, and his rent armour and notched axe were cast upon the floor. He looked up as Bilbo came beside him. "Farewell, good thief," he said. "I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the

“我想脑袋挨了狠狠一下，”比尔博说。 “不过我有头盔，头骨也硬。 可我还是头晕，腿软得像稻草。” “我背你去山谷的营地，”那人说完，轻轻就把他抱了起来。 那人脚步轻快又稳当。 没过多久，比尔博就被放到了河谷镇的一顶帐篷前，甘道夫就站在那儿，一只胳膊挂着吊带。 就连巫师都没能逃过受伤，整支队伍里没受伤的人寥寥无几。 甘道夫看见比尔博的时候，高兴极了。 “巴金斯！”他惊呼道。 “真没想到呀！ 你居然还活着——我太高兴了！ 我之前都在担心，就算你的好运气也保不住你呢！ 这场战斗太可怕了，差一点就全军覆没了。 不过别的消息可以等会儿再说。 “来吧！” 他语气更严肃地说。 “有人找你；”说完他领着霍比特人走进了帐篷。 “你好呀。 梭林，”他走进帐篷说道。 “我把他带来了。” 梭林·橡木盾就躺在这儿，他浑身都是伤，破碎的铠甲和豁口的斧头被扔在地上。 比尔博走到他身边，他抬起了头。 “再见了，好飞贼，”他说。 “我现在要去等候之厅，坐在我的先祖身旁，直到

world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate." Bilbo knelt on one knee filled with sorrow. "Farewell, King under the Mountain!" he said. "This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils—that has been more than any Baggins deserves." "No!" said Thorin. "There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!" Then Bilbo turned away, and he went by himself, and sat alone wrapped in a blanket, and, whether you believe it or not, he wept until his eyes were red and his voice was hoarse. He was a kindly little soul. Indeed it was long before he had the heart to make a joke again. "A mercy it is," he said at last to himself, "that I woke up when I did. I wish Thorin were living, but I am glad that we parted in kindness. You are a fool, Bilbo Baggins, and you made a great mess

世界重获新生。 既然我现在要抛下所有金银，去往那个金银没用的地方，我想和你友好告别，收回我在大门前说过的话、做过的事。” 比尔博满心悲伤，单膝跪了下来。 “再见了，山下之王！” 他说。 “这场冒险以这样的结局结束太苦涩了，就算整座金山也没法弥补。 可我很高兴能和你一起共赴艰险——这已经比我巴金斯该得到的多太多了。” “不对！”梭林说。 “来自善良西方的孩子呀，你身上的优点比你自己知道的要多。 你有几分勇气，又有几分智慧，两者搭配得刚刚好。 要是我们更多人把美食、欢笑和歌声看得比囤积的黄金更重，这世界会幸福多了。 “可不管悲伤还是欢乐，我现在都要走了。 再见了！” 于是比尔博转过身，独自离开，他一个人裹着毯子坐着，不管你信不信，他哭了，哭到眼睛发红，嗓子沙哑。 他是个心地善良的小家伙。 确实过了很久，他才重新有心情开玩笑。 “还好我在这个时候醒了过来，”他最后暗自想道， 我多希望梭林还活着，但我很高兴我们是友好告别的。 你真是个傻瓜，比尔博·巴金斯，你把一切都搅得一团糟

of that business with the stone; and there was a battle, in spite of all your efforts to buy peace and quiet, but I suppose you can hardly be blamed for that." All that had happened after he was stunned, Bilbo learned later; but it gave him more sorrow than joy, and he was now weary of his adventure. He was aching in his bones for the homeward journey. That, however, was a little delayed, so in the meantime I will tell something of events. The Eagles had long had suspicion of the goblins' mustering; from their watchfulness the movements in the mountains could not be altogether hid. So they too had gathered in great numbers, under the great Eagle of the Misty Mountains; and at length smelling battle from afar they had come speeding down the gale in the nick of time. They it was who dislodged the goblins from the mountain-slopes, casting them over precipices, or driving them down shrieking and bewildered among their foes. It was not long before they had freed the Lonely Mountain, and elves and men on either side of the valley could come at last to the help of the battle below.

都和那块宝石的事端有关；哪怕你拼尽全力想要换来太平，最终还是爆发了大战，不过这件事其实怪不得你。 这些都是比尔博晕倒后发生的事，他后来才得知；这件事给他带来的悲伤远多过喜悦，如今他早已对这场冒险感到疲惫不堪。 他浑身骨头都酸痛不已，满心只盼着早日踏上回家的路。 不过出发得稍微推迟一些，那我先给你讲讲这段时间发生的事儿吧。 老鹰们早就察觉哥布林在集结，他们一直放哨盯梢，山里的一举一动根本瞒不过他们。 于是他们也在迷雾山脉大鹰的带领下集结了大队；终于，他们远远闻到了战火气息，便借着狂风火速赶来，刚好赶上大战。 正是他们把哥布林赶下了山坡，要么把敌人扔下悬崖，要么把这群惊慌惨叫的哥布林赶到了敌军阵中。 没过多久他们就解放了孤山，山谷两侧的精灵和人类终于能赶来支援山下的战斗了。

But even with the Eagles they were still outnumbered. In that last hour Beorn himself had appeared—no one knew how or from where. He came alone, and in bear's shape; and he seemed to have grown almost to giant-size in his wrath. The roar of his voice was like drums and guns; and he tossed wolves and goblins from his path like straws and feathers. He fell upon their rear, and broke like a clap of thunder through the ring. The dwarves were making a stand still about their lords upon a low rounded hill. Then Beorn stooped and lifted Thorin, who had fallen pierced with spears, and bore him out of the fray. Swiftly he returned and his wrath was redoubled, so that nothing could withstand him, and no weapon seemed to bite upon him. He scattered the bodyguard, and pulled down Bolg himself and crushed him. Then dismay fell on the Goblins and they fled in all directions. But weariness left their enemies with the coming of new hope, and they pursued them closely, and prevented most of them from escaping where they could. They drove many of them into the Running River, and such as fled south or west they hunted into the marshes about the Forest River; and there the greater part of the

可就算有老鹰帮忙，联军的人数还是比不上敌军。 在这最后关头，贝奥亲自现身了——没人知道他从哪儿来、怎么来的。 他孤身而来，保持着熊的形态，愤怒让他长得几乎和巨人一样高大。 他的吼声就像战鼓和轰鸣的枪炮，他把狼群和哥布林像稻草、羽毛一样从路上掀飞。 他冲进敌军后方，像一声霹雳冲破了敌人的包围圈。 矮人还在一座圆圆的矮山上，围着他们的首领死战不退。 接着贝奥弯下腰，抱起被长矛刺中倒下的索林，把他带出了战场。 他很快就杀了回来，怒火比之前更盛，没有谁能阻挡他，任何武器都没法伤到他。 他冲散了哥布林的护卫队，亲手把博尔格拽下来碾死了。 哥布林们顿时吓破了胆，四散奔逃。 新的希望赶走了联军的疲惫，他们紧追逃敌，让大部分哥布林都没能逃掉。 他们把许多哥布林赶进了奔流河，又把往南往西逃的哥布林追进了森林河周边的沼泽，大部分哥布林都