CHAPTER 8 FLIES AND SPIDERS

With Gandalf doing wizardly stuff, the gang is on their own. Bilbo and the dwarfs have been living off of the supplies that Beron gave them, and it’s just not working out because they are nearly out of stuff. They find a rope that leads to a boat in the middle of the night, but it slips out of their hands and is never seen again. Bilbo somehow became lost. When he finds the dwarfs, they are cocooned in spider string ready to be eaten! Bilbo cuts open the cocoons and they kill most of the spiders and make a dash for it! When they’re all fast asleep, Dwalin, one of the dwarfs, notices that Thorin is missing