Youth has its hour of glory, but too often it""s only a morning glory, the flower that fades before he sun is very high.Man took dominion over man.The conquered were made to serve the conqueror.The weak were made to serve the strong.And freedom was gone from the world.So did the Egyptians cause he children of Israel to serve with rigor.Their lives were made bitter with hard bondage, and their cry came up unto God and God heard them.PART I:The Legend of a Rising Star (or "Deliverer"), and Hebrew Moses"" Birth and Rescue:In ancient times, Moses was thought to have been conceived by his Hebrew parents, Amram and Yochabel, as God""s answer to their chains and bondage: ("The seed of a man upon whose mind and heart would be written God""s law and God""s commandments.[Note: Bard was soon revealed to be a descendant of the original lord of Dale.Later, he vowed to protect his family from harm brought by the dragon.He had secretly kept the last Black Arrow in case Smaug awakened and attacked Lake-town again.]Thorin feared that time was running out -- "Tomorrow begins the last days of autumn.Durin""s Day falls the morn after next.We must reach the mountain before then." He and the other Dwarves scoffed when Bard delivered a satchel of makeshift weapons inadequate for their quest.One night during the next spring, he Kinsella""s living-room TV in the farmhouse was broadcasting the first exhibition game of spring training from Florida, as the announcer alked about a "southpaw" (left-handed) pitcher.The excavation was headed up and funded by Professor Roger Wilson (David Calder) (an old friend of "Rick" O""Connell""s), working with 21 year-old student Alex O""Connell (Luke Ford) [who it was later revealed had dropped out of school without his parents"" knowledge], who had discovered the Bembridge Journal (written by Sir Colin Bembridge who went searching for the tomb 70 years earlier, and whose skeletal corpse was in the ruins).