Gandalf was thinking of a spring , nearly eighty years before , when Bilbo had run out of Bag End without a handkerchief . His hair was perhaps whiter than it had been then , and his beard and eyebrows were perhaps longer , and his face more lined with care and wisdom ; but his eyes were as bright as ever , and he smoked and blew smoke-rings with the same vigour and delight .
Гэндальф думал о весне, почти восемьдесят лет назад, когда Бильбо сбежал из Бэг-Энда без носового платка. Волосы его были, может быть, белее, чем тогда, а борода и брови, быть может, длиннее, а лицо более заботливо и мудро; но глаза его были такими же яркими, как всегда, и он курил и пускал кольца дыма с прежней энергией и удовольствием.
