Only Bombur was there, for it was his turn to watch, and the dwarves kept only one watchman at a time. As soon as it was full dark, he went to a corner of an inner chamber just within the gate and drew from his bundle a rope, and also the Arkenstone wrapped in a rag. With my friends behind them and winter upon them, they will perhaps be in softer mood to parley with." "Winter and snow will bite both men and elves," he said, "and they may find their dwelling in the Waste grievous to bear. How shall you be fed without the friendship and goodwill of the lands about you? The treasure is likely to be your death, though the dragon is no more!"'īut Thorin was not moved. Though they are a grim folk, they are not likely to overcome the host that besets you and even if they did so, what will you gain? Winter and snow is hastening behind them. "But they cannot reach the Mountain unmarked," said Rac, "and I fear lest there be battle in the valley. Things had gone on like this for some time, when the ravens brought news that Dain and more than five hundred dwarves, hurrying from the Iron Hills, were now within about two days' march of Dale, coming from the North-East. All the same he did not speak of it, for as the weariness of the days grew heavier, the beginnings of a plan had come into his little head. That stone of all the treasure I name unto myself, and I will be avenged on anyone who finds it and withholds it."īilbo heard these words and he grew afraid, wondering what would happen, if the stone was found-wrapped in an old bundle of tattered oddments that he used as a pillow. "For the Arkenstone of my father," he said, "is worth more than a river of gold in itself, and to me it is beyond price. Many of the dwarves spent their time piling and ordering the treasure and now Thorin spoke of the Arkenstone of Thrain, and bade them eagerly to look for it in every comer.
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