Lothlorien

• Gandalf comes to Lothlorien, where he meets the White Council.
• Gandalf tells of Thrain and Sauron in Dol Guldor and urges an attack.

Mirkwood

• The dwarves are tied up in webs. Bilbo kills a spider and puts on the Ring. He calls his dagger ‘Sting’.
• Bilbo lures the spiders away and frees the dwarves.

• They find that Thorin is missing. The spiders return and the dwarves manage to kill them.
• As they are looking for Thorin they are captured by wood-elves. Bilbo evades capture.

Elvenking’s Halls

• Thorin had been captured earlier and was brought before Thranduil.

• Thorin refuses to tell of his quest and is locked up with the others.
• Bilbo finds the dwarves and relays messages between them.
• Bilbo steals the keys from Thranduil’s drunk butler and frees the dwarves.
• Bilbo gets the dwarves into barrels. The elves come and push the barrels into the river.
• Bilbo grabs onto a barrel and rides down the river until they get to the Long Lake.

Esgaroth

• The raft-elves find the barrels and load them onto the raft, where Bard takes them back to Laketown.

First Appearances – Bard, Legolas (not named), Haldir, Galion

Adapted from chapters ‘Flies and Spiders’ and ‘Barrels out of Bond’ of The Hobbit and Appendix B of Lord of the Rings.

Pictures

• Guards of Mirkwood – Henning Janssen
• The Spiders of Mirkwood – Ted Nasmith
• Blindfolded – Henning Janssen
• Barrels our of Bond – Francesco Amadio
• Raft-elves – David T. Wenzel