The next morning, he sees that the barrels have been bound together as a raft and he hops aboard as they continue to float toward Lake-town. Bilbo, still invisible, clings to one of the barrels and floats with them to the place where the stream joins the river there, he wades ashore. Bilbo packs the dwarves in the barrels and they are tossed through the trapdoors into the stream below. They object to the danger of the plan, but finally agree to it in desperation. He presents them with an escape plan: If they will hide in empty wine barrels, they will be dropped through the palace floor into the underground stream where they may float down the river to Lake-town. He steals keys from the prison guard who has fallen asleep drunk and releases the dwarves one by one.

Bilbo discovers that a stream flows under the palace out to the river beyond the cave, and that empty wine barrels are dropped through trapdoors under the palace to float down the river to Lake-town. Bilbo remains invisible, hiding in the Elvenking's palace for a week or two, until he finds the dwarves he also finds Thorin.īilbo carries a message from Thorin to the dwarves not to reveal their mission to the Elvenking. The Elvenking has them thrown them into separate prison cells. Invisible, he follows the dwarves, who are taken by the elves across a bridge to the cave palace of the Elvenking. Trying to find their way out of the forest of Mirkwood, the dwarves are captured by armed Wood-elves Bilbo avoids capture because he is wearing the ring.

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