Journal #8

Bilbo and the dwarves begin to travel through Mirkwood, and it is dark and scary. It begins to be hard to tell day from night because the woods are so thick. They make it to the stream that Beorn had warned them about, to not touch it. Bombur (one of the dwarves) falls in and he is put into a sleep that lasts him for days. Later on, they see a clearing with Wood Elves sitting around a fire, when they go up to the clearing, the fire goes out and this leads to Bilbo passing out. He wakes up being confronted by a spider, and he kills it. Bilbo then uses his ring to lead the other spiders away and save all the dwarves, all but Thorin, the Head Dwarf, who was taken by the wood elves. Thorin will not reveal any information to the Wood Elves who are uneasy with new people. They throw him into the dungeon. The rest of the dwarves are captured, but not Bilbo, because he has the ring. He uses it to sneak past everyone and take some keys. Using the keys he unlocks all of his companions. To escape they float in barrels in a river. These barrels are used to float goods that the elves trade with the men of the town this river connects to, which is called Lake Town.

Floating Down The River