The Hobbit
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l until the break of dawn, and when the sun came over the hillside, the trolls were turned into stone. The party were hungry, and followed a path that led to a big cave. The trolls had used the cave, and Bilbo had found a key that could open the cave. Inside the cave they found weapons, gold and food. Thorin found a sword called Orcrist (Goblin-Cleaver), Gandalf found a sword called Glamdring (Foe-Hammer) and Bilbo found a sword that he called Stinger. They buried the gold in a safe place in the woods.
In the third chapter, A Short Rest, The dwarves and Bilbo arrived at Rivendell for a rest. The place is also called The Last Homely House of the West. Rivendell is a place where elves live and their leader is Elrond. Elrond reads some moon-letters (letters which can only be seen in the proper moonlight) on Thorin’s map of the Lonely Mountain, which say where the secret entrance is. After fourteen days, they leave Rivendell heading towards the Misty Mountains.
In the fourth chapter, Over Hill And Under Hill, the party went up into the Misty Mountains. They experienced hard weather conditions, and Fili and Kili were sent off to find a place to shelter. They found a cave after a while and went to sleep. Suddenly, Bilbo woke up because he heard some strange sounds. Suddenly, one of the walls in the cave cracked and out came many goblins. The goblins captured the whole party except Gandalf and brought them inside their tunnels in the mountain. They carried them to their leader, the Great Goblin. The goblins had a powerful and bad smell and the goblins hated Thorin’s people because they’d had wars with them in the past. The Great Goblin got angry when he saw Thorin’s sword, Orcrist (the goblins called the sword Biter), because that sword had killed many goblins many years ago. Suddenly Gandalf shows up and kills the Great Goblin, cuts the chains off the dwarves with his sword, the Glamdring, and the dwarves escape. Bilbo, who was bei...