Turka has come as far as he can.
Besides, there were no trolls around here half a month ago, so what could he say except that the dwarves and hobbits deserved such disaster in their lives.
"These monsters shouldn't appear here." The wizard knocked the three idiots who turned into stone sculptures with his stick, and frowned: "They must have come from Eton Wasteland. When we were in the north last time, we were in Karndum has not seen many trolls."
Turka recalled all the recent discoveries and said: "In just ten years, their activities have become active again. The dark forces are rising faster than we imagined."
Both the wizard and Thorin noticed the worry in his eyes and said, "What did you find?"
Turka didn't want to say it now. He said: "This is not a good place to talk about this. Let us pack the gifts first and then continue on the road. Maybe later, I will tell you something in front of a warm campfire." .”
The wizard was a little surprised and a little solemn. He said, "That's it."
This greatly disappointed Bilbo, who wanted to eavesdrop. He always felt that after this night's adventure, he had proven that he was a qualified adventurer, and he wanted to participate more.
ah.
Yes, the curiosity in our Hobbit's heart is completely aroused at this time. The genes of the Took family overwhelm the genes of the Baggins family.
"They won't travel during the day." Thorin looked around: "There must be a cave near here."
At this time, the dwarves crawled out of the sacks one after another like potatoes. After arranging their personal belongings, they searched around and soon discovered the huge footprints of these trolls leading to the trees.
They followed the footprints up the mountain and finally found a cave hidden in the bushes.
Turka knew that they would find the enemy-beating hammer Gramdrin (also known as the sword-fighting hammer) and the biting sword Orcrest here, but he didn't have much need for weapons right now.
In particular, these two swords are too short for him.
So he stood upwind away from the cave, not wanting to get involved.
"Well."
Bilbo covered his nose with a look of disgust on his face: "Are we in the toilet?"
There is an unpleasant smell in the air here. There were a lot of bones on the ground, and a lot of food was piled randomly on the shelves and on the ground.
The cave was littered with looted property, ranging from brass buttons to a jar filled with gold coins piled in one corner.
There were also many clothes hanging on the walls - obviously too small for the trolls, most likely ripped from the bodies of the victims - and among them, there were swords of various styles, shapes and sizes, including two They are particularly attractive because of their beautiful scabbards and gem-encrusted hilts.
It is Gramdrin and Oakcrest, these two magical weapons.
"This does not look like a weapon that a troll would forge." Thorin drew out Orcrest, and the sword blade almost lit up the dark cave.
Gandalf pulled out Gramdrin, read the inscription on it, and said: "This is a weapon secretly forged by the high elves in Gondolin in the First Age. There is no better sword than these swords."
Because the relationship between dwarves and elves was better than at the same time in the original history, Thorin did not resist using elven weapons.
Bilbo was also curious and took a sheathed knife. To trolls, this is probably just a pocket knife, but to hobbits it can be considered a short sword.
This is the stabbing sword.
But at that time, no one knew the name yet.
Others also gained something.
"We can hide these gold coins first. Maybe when we come back, we won't return empty-handed." The dwarves said.
Then they brought shovels, dug many small pits and holes, and buried all the jars of gold coins and treasures that the trolls had snatched.
They said: These are ownerless things, and the dwarves only keep them temporarily. If anyone comes looking for it, they will gladly give it back to them.
But in fact, everyone knows that this is just a statement made by the dwarves to deceive themselves and others. It was impossible for anyone to ask them to track down these lost items.
Along the way, Bilbo waved his dagger curiously, somewhat happily.
The dwarves also put on their smiling faces again.
It seemed that the bad experience that night had been forgotten by them.
The howling wolf no longer appears.
Everything seems to be developing in a good direction, and all this is just because there is another tall figure in the team.
Two days later.
The adventure team saw a huge and boundless mountain range. A few clusters of sunshine sparsely shone on the brown hillside, and the top of the mountain was covered with snow, making the whole mountain look dark and gloomy.
"Is that the mountain we are going to?" Bilbo asked in a serious tone, looking at the mountain with wide eyes. He had never seen anything so big before.
"Of course not!" Balin said, "This is just the edge of the Misty Mountains. We have to go through it, or climb over it, or crawl under it. Only in this way can we enter the great wilderness on the other side of the mountain. Even if we climb over it Mountains, it’s still a long way to the lonely mountains in the east.”
"Oh!" sighed Bilbo, he had come a long way - for him.
He felt more tired than he had ever felt before, and it reminded him of his cozy home in Bag End, of his favorite sitting room, with its comfortable chair in front of the fire and the kettle's beeping as it boiled. the sound of.
Turka comforted him: "It's almost there. Lord Elrond's home is the most comfortable inn in Middle-earth. It will make you forget all fatigue and sorrow, and will also relieve your homesickness, my dear. Bilbo."
In fact, it was indeed the case. They walked for another half day, and after turning around a river valley, a paradise that Bilbo would never forget appeared in front of him.
"Rivendell!"
Bilbo stared blankly at the elven home in front of him, almost grinning from ear to ear. That was almost one of the most beautiful sights he had seen on this trip——
Several of the dwarves also sighed like this.
The beauty there is almost beyond words, just know that there, even on the darkest night, you don't have to close the door.
They crossed a small river with only a small bridge without guardrails, just narrow enough for a pony to cross. So when crossing the bridge, they could only carefully hold the pony's reins and walk slowly over one by one.
Fortunately, the elves brought bright lanterns and stood on the shore to illuminate them.
"My lord!"
Glorfindel was already waiting here. He saluted very elegantly to Turka who was walking in the front, and then nodded to the others.
"This is the legendary Hobbit." Lord Golden Flower even heard about the deeds of our Master Baggins, which made Bilbo almost jump with excitement.
"Welcome, Master Bilbo Baggins."
"Hello, I mean, it's a pleasure to come to Lord Elrond's home." Bilbo stammered.
The elves all laughed. They took the ponies of the dwarves and hobbits and welcomed them warmly. This almost made Bilbo forget his bad impression of the elf's senses because of a certain female elf.
"Lord Elrond is already waiting." Glorfindel said: "If the dwarves and our hobbits are not tired yet, we can go to enjoy the elves' dinner first. If we are tired, we can also go to rest first. , the most comfortable beds and beddings here are enough to relieve everyone from the fatigue and fatigue of the journey.”
Bombur immediately said: "I choose to eat. I have been hungry all day and I can eat a big wild boar now."
He was the fattest of the dwarves, almost two dwarves wide.
At the end of the day, he was cold and hungry, and he couldn't wait for a sumptuous dinner to appear in front of him soon. Others also commented that they would rather eat first and rest later.
So Thorin said: "Thank you, Lord Elrond, for your hospitality. Please lead the way."
Bilbo couldn't remember what happened next, or in other words, his attention was almost entirely absorbed by Elrond, Turka, the wizard, and Thorin.
First of all, the owner here is indeed a king who is as noble and handsome as a noble, as strong as a warrior, as resourceful as a wizard, as noble and respected as a dwarf, and as kind-hearted as a great man in the summer. He welcomed everyone in the adventure team very warmly and arranged a very sumptuous dinner.
Secondly, the silver-white king kept talking to the elves, wizards, and dwarf kings almost non-stop. Their expressions were very serious, as if a natural or man-made disaster had occurred somewhere.
Because they were talking in Elvish throughout the whole process, please forgive me that Bilbo could only understand a limited number of words, including darkness, shadow, plague, etc.
This made him very worried and even a little restless.
If these big shots have to be on guard, doesn't it mean that this matter is very serious? Bilbo asked Balin anxiously. He was almost the calmest among the dwarves. While everyone was eating haise, old Balin was slowly smoking his pipe aside, as if everything was under control.
"Don't you think it's very strange here?" said Bilbo. "They talk all the time and don't even eat a thing."
Old Balin looked at him deeply and said something philosophical: "If they can't solve the problem, what's the use of worrying about it? Bilbo, maybe you are very important in this mission. But after all, you are just a small person, like many dwarves! Just like me! And this world is very big! Just let it go, being a mediocre person is not a good thing for you or me."
Bilbo opened his mouth, speechless.
In fact, until the elves' warm reception ended, the Silver King and the others were still talking, and they continued until dawn the next day.
But as Balin said, the world is very big, and the hobbits are so small. Many things have little to do with Bilbo or even the adventure team.
So the dwarves didn't know what happened during that time.
Bilbo later deduced it from the elves and even from sporadic conversations with the Silver King. And recorded it in his travel book "The Hobbit Adventures".
During that time, the Silver King held a Holy White meeting with the elves and wizards, and many important figures attended the meeting.
Among them is the white-robed wizard Saruman.
That is a very powerful Istar. That's what we call, wizards.
In the years before he was completely corrupted, the white wizard Saruman was almost one of the most powerful people in Middle-earth.
