Today’s trivia: the word Hill appears in every chapter of The Hobbit except one. Chapter Ten. Even though we cross “a steep shoulder of land” [10.001] and it takes place in a mountainous region. Hmm.

• 1.002 going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill –
• 1.002 The Hill,
• 1.003 in the neighbourhood of The Hill
• 1.004 the small river that ran at the foot of The Hill.
• 1.005 that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water,
• 1.005 that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water,
• 1.006 He had not been down that way under The Hill for ages
• 1.006 He had been away over The Hill
• 1.010 and floated away over The Hill.
• 1.013 You might try over The Hill or across The Water.’
• 1.068 of the smoke-rings he had sent up the wind over The Hill.
• 1.070 and very far from his hobbit-hole under The Hill.
• 1.071 in the side of The Hill;
• 1.083 settling on his quiet Hill
• 2.028 Not far ahead were dreary hills,
• 2.030 came rushing down from the hills
• 2.031 above the hills
• 2.036 There was a hill some way off with trees on it,
• 2.039 They came to the hill
• 2.039 Up the hill they went;
• 2.106 the light came over the hill,
• 2.111 They followed the tracks up the hill,
• 3.007 and no valleys and no hills
• 3.050 Chapter IV OVER HILL and UNDER HILL
• 3.050 Chapter IV OVER HILL and UNDER HILL
• 4.033 in the hills or did battle before their walls.
• 5.030 Thirty white horses on a red hill,
• 5.038 It lies behind stars and under hills,
• 6.049 All of a sudden they heard a howl away down hill,
• 7.002 and pinnacles of the hills.
• 7.005 almost a hill of stone,
• 7.010 on the top of the hill of stone
• 7.022 and before the goblins came into the hills out of the North.
• 7.084 when the goblins came down from the hills
• 8.131 in the hills
• 9.018 leading deep into the heart of the hill;
• 9.053 Back to gardens on the hills
• 11.022 and the Hill
• 12.050 I come from under the hill,
• 12.050 and under the hills
• 12.050 and over the hills my paths led.
• 12.070 We came over hill
• 12.070 and under hill,
• 13.038 How they would laugh on the Hill at home!
• 13.065 At length they reached the hill path.
• 14.002 was mostly screened by the low hills
• 14.008 in the hills
• 15.021 in the Iron Hills,
• 15.043 and he began reckoning the distance to the Iron Hills
• 16.004 hurrying from the Iron Hills,
• 16.029 and the dwarves of the Iron Hills?’
• 17.044 and gathered by hill
• 17.044 which divided the Lonely Mountain from the hills behind.
• 17.051 the dwarves of the Iron Hills plunged in,
• 18.023 about their lords upon a low rounded hill.
• 19.028 he could see his own Hill
• 19.032 And trees and hills they long have known.
• 19.037 both under the Hill
• 19.037 and over the Hill,