Roast Mutton

The Hobbit

Chapter 2 Roast Mutton

Bilbo jumps out of bed in the morning and goes into his kitchen, where he sees the huge number of plates and glasses the dwarves used last night. This sight depresses him, since he can’t easily forget that the dwarves were in his home. Gandalf reets him, and points to a note the dwarves have left him. The note says that Bilbo will act as a burglar for the dwarves, that in return he will receive one-fourteenth of the treasure, and that he must meet them at the Green Dragon Tavern at eleven o’clock sharp, which Bilbo realizes is in only ten minutes. Bilbo protests, but Gandalf urges him to hurry there, and he leaves his home without a hat, coat, or walking stick.

At the Green Dragon, the dwarves greet Bilbo and tell him that they must be going and that he can borrow a hat and coat. The group, which includes Gandalf riding on a white horse, leaves the hobbit-lands in which Bilbo lives, and soon ventures into areas where the people speak strange languages, and the buildings look sinister. Bilbo wishes, for not the last time, that he were at home.

While the group is traveling through the wilderness, it begins to rain, and the group notices that Gandalf is missing. The dwarves are unable to make fire, and a horse runs away, leaving them with little food for the evening. They see a faint light in the distance, and decide to send Bilbo to investigate what it is, giving him a complicated signaling system if he’s in danger. Bilbo finds that the source of the light is a campfire, around which sit three huge trolls, Tom, Bert, and William, complaining about eating the same meal, mutton, night after night. Bilbo, who knows from reading various books that the trolls are probably carrying valuable things in their pockets, picks Williams’s pocket, thinking excitedly that this is the beginning of his career as a burglar. Unfortunately, William’s enchanted purse lets out a yell when Bilbo holds it, and William captures Bilbo.

The trolls ask Bilbo if there are others near their fire; Bilbo says yes at first, then no. William, who’s already eaten supper, wants to let Bilbo go, but the other two trolls want to eat him. The trolls begin to fight, and Bilbo is able to slip away in the confusion. Meanwhile, the dwarves have begun to approach the fire. When the trolls see the dwarves, they capture all of them and put them in sacks, while Bilbo hides nearby, afraid to move...

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Roast Mutton is a hobbit only RP Kinship. We will follow in Bilbo's footsteps until we meet him at the Last Homely House go through the Mines of Moria, help out during the Siege Of Mirkwood & finally find the evil that live in the east.