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"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the picturesque grassy lanes (for it is in Hobbiton that our scene lies), rattling along the Hobbit holes, and fiercely agitating the scanty shoots of garden produce that struggled against the deluge."