“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone. I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”

—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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