i ordered the two-disc special edition of the hobbit i'm not sure how to feel about that

also i am forgoing the scene where bilbo almost leaves purely for convenience i'm sorry i'm so lazy

"Stone giants!"

Bilbo does not remember much after that. She remembers the cold and the wet and the disorienting feeling of the ground shifting beneath her feet. She remembers chilling, heart-wrenching terror when Dori and Nori and Ori are lifted up, up up away from her (and when she hears Thorin and Fili screaming for Kili, she knows they feel the same). She remembers the warmth of Bofur's hand through her sodden clothes as he pulles her back against the cliff face, how his mustache tickled her ear as he shouted to be heard over the wailing wind and grinding stone. "Careful there, lass!"

He does not let her go until they all stumble into a sandy cave and she is thankful for the anchor.

There's a dazed silence that allows the hobbit to catch her breath and then a desperate scramble in which all thirteen dwarrows- yes, even Thorin- find family members and search and make sure that no harm has befallen anyone. Nori pulls her into the warm circle of his arms and presses a kiss to the top of her head, and she is allowed a moment to press her ear to his chest and listen to his heartbeat (thump thump thump thump, steady, and if she closes her eyes Bilbo can almost imagine they're safe at home in her spacious smial) before she's tugged from him and into Ori's embrace.

The young dwarf's grip is too tight and he's shaking, but not crying, so Bilbo says nothing and holds him as he takes a few shuddering breaths against her shoulder. "I was so scared!" he tells her later, wide-eyed and animated, little scratches marring the trail of freckles that stretch across his nose and cheeks. "I thought we were going to die!"

She nods consolingly and murmurs reassurances (even though she'd been just as shaken- nearly falling to your death tends to do that to a girl) as she's shifted into another pair of arms, this time Dori, who grumbles something along the lines of "don't ever worry me like that again" though he sounds wretched with relief and Bilbo smothers a half-hysterical giggle in his coat.

Later on, as she's drifting to sleep in her nest of dwarrows, the floor opens up and she is swallowed by darkness.