Before anyone could react, the floor of the cave collapsed downwards; the floor was really a giant trap door. The entire Company fell down a chute, sliding through a tunnel, and landed in a giant wooden cage.
Ember, with her luck, fell right on top of Kili.
"Why do we always meet like this." She said.
"I don't know, but I certainly don't mind it." He replied, which made Ember blush.
As they struggled to get up, a horde of goblins attacked them, took away their weapons, and dragged them all away. As the dwarves were lead away kicking and yelling, Bilba somehow to her dismay got missed by the goblins; not seeing her they left her behind. Nori, looking over his shoulder, saw this happen. Bilba scampered behind some railing to hide as she watched the goblins proceeded through the tunnels. Bats flew in the darkness. Bilba drew her sword, which was glowing bright blue, and slowly followed the goblins. Suddenly, one goblin jumped out in front of her and rushed at her with his sword. After a brief fight in which Bilba barely managed to keep herself alive, the goblin and Bilba both fell over the edge of a platform and fell through the darkness.
Meanwhile, the goblin horde brought the dwarves and Ember through a vast network of tunnels and wooden bridges to the throne room and platform of the Great Goblin. The Great Goblin was a massive Goblin sitting on a throne, holding a mace topped with a skull. He was far larger than any other goblin, and he is incredibly ugly, with warts all over his swinging chin. The dwarves' weapons were piled together. The Great Goblin jumped off his throne, trampling several goblins, and approached the Company.
"Who would be so bold as to come armed into my kingdom? Spies? Thieves? Assassins?"
"Dwarves, Your Malevolence. And whatever the girl is." Kili saw Ember smirk at what the goblin said.
"Dwarves?"
"We found them on the front porch."
"Well, don't just stand there; search them! Every crack, every crevice." The goblins searched the dwarves thoroughly, throwing away whatever they found. Oin's hearing trumpet was thrown on the floor and crushed underfoot.
"What are you doing in these parts? Speak!" None of the dwarves responded.
"Well then, if they will not talk, we'll make them squawk! Bring out the Mangler! Bring out the Bone Breaker! Start with the youngest." The Great Goblin pointed at Ori. However, Thorin stepped forward.
"Wait."
"Well, well, well, look who it is. Thorin son of Thrain, son of Thror; King under the Mountain." The Great Goblin bowed exaggeratedly to Thorin.
"Oh, but I'm forgetting, you don't have a mountain. And you're not a king. Which makes you nobody, really. I know someone who would pay a pretty price for your head. Just the head, nothing attached. Perhaps you know of whom I speak, an old enemy of yours. A Pale Orc astride a White Warg." Thorin looked up in surprise and disbelief.
"Azog the Defiler was destroyed. He was slain in battle long ago."
"So you think his defiling days are done, do you?" The Great Goblin laughed, then turned to a tiny goblin sitting in a basket and holding a slate.
"Send word to the Pale Orc; tell him I have found his prize." The tiny goblin wrote down the message on his slate; cackling, he then pulled a lever, causing his basket to start sliding down a system of ropes and pulleys into the darkness.
Some of the goblins grabbed Ember and they dragged her to the feet of the king.
"Ah, I am going to get paid rather well tonight. If it isn't Ember March, the most well known assassin gone rogue. I know someone who would pay a rather pretty price, greater than the one for the dwarf, for you. Not just your head, all of you. Alive. He worries about you, you know. He would love to see his prize weapon returned to him in one piece. I know you know of whom I speak of though."
"Demisrie can have my cold dead body before I worked for him again." Her voice cracked as she spoke. Demisrie's name sent great fear into her body.
"I think he would find that rather aggravating. He needs you alive to… extract what he needs." Ember felt the heat rising in her body. But she did everything to calm herself down, like look at Kili who looked scared for her.
"Grinnah,send word to Demisrie I have his weapon, pretty and… warm." The great goblin picked Ember up by her hair and shoved her back into the arms of the company. Her head and legs extremely hurt as she fell into Kili's arms.
"Are you alright."Oin asked her.
"Other than a splitting headache and a hurt legs, I'll be fine." She admitted as she twisted her hair expertly in a bun. She then rubbed her temples. The great goblin looked happily around.
"Who is Demisrie?" Kili asked her as he helped her stand up. She used him as a crutch.
"Demisrie is something I do not want to talk about, ever. And I swear if anyone asks again there will be one less dwarf in this company." Her face showed not only anger but extreme fear. Kili had never seen her this scared, not even when she was about to die at the hands of trolls, and even in the thunder battle when she was bleeding immensely.
She wasn't just scared she was terrified and on the border of being mortified.
Bilba regained consciousness and found herself in a dark cavern, lying behind a clump of mushrooms. She saw the goblin who attacked him lying nearby, nearly dead. Suddenly, Bilba saw a strange figure approaching the goblin.
"Yes. Yes. Yes! Yes! Gollum. Gollum." Bilba, out of sight behind the mushrooms, watched as Gollum circled around the goblin. Gollum then began pulling the goblin away by the feet. Suddenly, the goblin woke up and began flailing around. In a fit of rage, Gollum grabbed a rock and pounded the goblin on the head with it, knocking it unconscious again. As Bilba watched in horror, a golden ring fell out of Gollum's loincloth and fell on the floor. Gollum resumed pulling the unconscious goblin away.
"Nasty goblins. Better than old bones, Precious; better than nothing." Bilba, emerging from her hiding spot and retrieving her sword, followed after Gollum. By the light of the sword, she saw the ring on the ground and she picked it up, examining it.
Hearing Gollum singing in the distance, Bilba put the Ring into her pocket and followed the sound of Gollum's voice.
"Too many boneses, Precious! Nothing of flesh!"
"Shut up! Get its skin off. Start with its head." Bilba was mortified at the harsh cold murderous words.
"The cold hard lands, they bites our hands, they gnaws our feet. The rocks and stones, they're like old bones, all bare of meat. Cold as death, they have no breath, it's good to eat!" Rounding a corner, Bilba saw Gollum silhouetted on top of a rock in the middle of a small lake. Gollum was singing as he beat the goblin's body. He smashed it in the head again with a rock. Seeing the glow of Bilba's sword, Gollum looked up. Bilba quickly hid behind a rock, realizing that her sword was still glowing brightly. However, the sword's light started flickering, then completely died out, signifying that the goblin was dead. Bilba peeks out from behind the rock, her gold curls falling over her shoulders, then she was shocked to see that the creature is no longer there. Gollum stealthily paddled through the lake in his little boat, using his hands as paddles. Bilba slowly looked up and found Gollum on a rock above her; Gollum jumped down in front of Bilba.
"Bless us and splash us, Precious! That's a meaty mouthful." Gollum approached Bilba, but Bilba placed the point of her sword on Gollum's throat, causing Gollum to retreat in fear.
"Aaahh. Gollum. Gollum. Ack"
"Back. Stay back. I'm warning you, don't come any closer."
"It's got an elvish blade, but it's not an Elfs. Not an Elfs, no. What is it, Precious? What is it?"
"My name is Bilba Baggins."
"Bagginses? What is a Bagginses, Precious?"
"I'm a Hobbit from the Shire."
"Oh! We like Goblinses, batses, and fishes, but we hasn't tried Hobbitses before. Is it soft? Is it juicy?" As Gollum approached again, Bilba held out her sword in front of him and wildly waved it about.
"Now, now, Keep your distance! I'll use this if I have to!" Gollum snarled at Bilba, causing Bilba to step back.
"I don't want any trouble, do you understand? Just show me the way to get out of here, and I'll be on my way."
"Why, is it lost?"
"Yes, yes, and I want to get unlost as soon as possible." Upon hearing this, Gollum answered in a different voice than before.
"Ooh! We knows! We knows safe paths for Hobbitses. Safe paths in the dark."
"Shut up."
"I didn't say anything." She said confused.
"Wasn't talking to you."
"But yes, we was, Precious, we was."
"Look, uh, I don't know what your game is, but I ..."
"Games? We love games, doesn't we, Precious? Does it like games? Does it? Does it? Does it like to play?"
"Maybe?" Smeagol held up his hands, then began reciting a riddle.
"What has roots as nobody saw, is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, and yet, never grows."
"...The mountain." Smeagol began laughing uproariously.
"Yess, yess, oh, let's have another one, eh? Yes, come on, do it again, do it—do it again. Ask us."
"No! No more riddles. Finish him off. Finish him now. Gollum! Gollum!" Gollum snarled, and began rushing at Bilba to kill her, but Bilba held out his hand to stop him and began speaking.
"No! No, no, no. I wa—I want to play. I do. I want to play. I can see you are very good at this. S—so why don't we have a game of riddles? Yes, just, just you and me." Bilba crouched until she was level with Gollum; Gollum scuttled forward, close to Bilba, whispering excitedly.
"Yes! Yes, just, just—just us."
"Yes. Yes. And—and if I win, you show me the way out."
"Yes. Yes " Gollum snarled, turning away from Bilba.
"And if it loses? What then?"
"Well, if it loses, Precious, we will eats it!" Gollum laughed to himself, then turned back to Bilba.
"If Baggins loses, we eats it whole." Bilba paused for a second. She was good at riddles, she was the best in all of the Shire.
"Fair enough." Bilba stood up and put her sword away as Gollum looked on interestedly.
"Well, Baggins first." As Bilba thought of a riddle, Gollum rested his hands and chin on the edge of a rock.
"Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still." As Gollum thought, he kept opening his eyes and mouth as if he knows the answer, then changed his mind. This went on for several seconds, until he finally replied questioningly.
"Teeth?" Bilba looked unhappy, and she rolled her eyes, as the answer was correct. Gollum became ecstatic and laughs throatily.
"Teeth! Yes, my Precious. But we—we—we only have nine." Gollum displayed his mouth, showing that he really did only have nine teeth. Bilba was disgusted. Gollum began reciting his next riddle, while getting closer and closer to Bibo. Bilba kept a large rock between the two of them.
"Our turn. Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters."
"Just a minute." Bilba walked off thinking.
"Oh, oh! We knows. We knows!"
"Shut up." As Bilba observed the water, she noticed tiny waves forming as a breeze ruffles the surface of the water.
"Wind. It's wind! Of course it is." Gollum snarled in frustration and began slinking around, approaching Bilba.
"Very clever, Hobbitses, very clever." As he got too close for comfort, Bilba pulled out her sword and pointed it at Gollum again, but also began saying her own riddle.
"Ah, ah, ah, ah. A—a box without hinges, key, o—or, or lid; yet golden treasure inside is hid." Gollum thought hard, talking to himself and making many hand motions.
"A box...and a lid...and then a key... "
"Well?"
"It's nasty. Uh, box, uh..." Gollum spat.
"Give up?"
"Give us a chance, Precious, give us a chance!" In frustration, Gollum began pounding the floor and snarling. He puckered his face up deeply, then suddenly opened his eyes wide as he got the answer.
"Eggses! Eggses! What crunchy little eggses, yes. Grandmother taught us to suck them, yes." As Gollum laughed, a bat made a noise in the darkness. Bilba turned to look for the source of the noise; as she turned back around, she realized that Gollum is gone. Gollum's voice suddenly started sounding like an echo from different parts of the cave. Gollum spoke his riddle from some unknown spot.
"Ahh. We have one for you: All things it devours, birds, beasts, trees, flowers. Gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal. Answer us."
"Give me a moment, please, I gave you a good long while." Bilba tried to think while at the same time she walks around with her sword drawn, looking for Gollum.
"I don't know this one." She said, terrified. She wished Ember were here beside her to help her. She trembled at the thought of dying.
"Is it tasty? Is it scrumptious? Is it crunchable?" As Gollum said 'crunchable,' he appeared behind Bilba and tries to grab her by her delicate throat, but Bilba jumped away and pointed her sword at Gollum.
"Let me think. Let me think."
"It's stuck. Bagginses is stuck." Bilba paced back and forth next to the water, thinking. Gollum smiled eerily and put up his hands in a shrug.
"Time's up." Gollum shifted, preparing to leap on Bilba.
"Time. Ti—the answer is time."
Gollum snarled in frustration.
"Actually, it wasn't that hard." She said under her breath loud enough for Gollum to hear.
"Last question. Last chance."
"Ah, uh..." She hesitated thinking of a question.
"Ask us. ASK US!" Although Gollum is smiling sweetly, he had a rock clutched behind his back with which to hit Bilba. The first time he said "Ask us," he said it sweetly to Bilba's surprise. He then roared it a second time angrily.
"Yes, yes, alright."
Bilba strolled to the edge of the lake to think. She absentmindedly rubbed her pocket and felt the ring inside.
"What have I got in my pocket?"
Gollum looked disgusted and angry.
"That's not fair. It's not fair! It's against the rules!"
In frustration, Gollum threw down the rock he'd been clutching. Bilba made a startled noise.
"Ask us another one."
"No, no, no, no. You said 'Ask me a question.' Well, that is my question. What have I got in my pocket?"
Gollum jumped off his rock and approached Bilba; Bilba moved to keep a rock between herself and Gollum. "Three guesses, Precious. It must give us three."
Gollum held up two fingers to quantify three.
"Three guesses. Very well, guess away."
"Handses!" Bilba pulled her hand out of her pocket just in time.
"Wrong, guess again."
Gollum crouched on the floor, trying to think of the answer. He muttered potential answers to himself and slapped the floor in increasing anger and ferocity as he failed to come up with the right answer.
"Fish bones, goblins' teeth, wet shells, bat's wings ... Knife!" No I'm not Ember, Bilba thought to herself. It caused her to smirk a little.
"Oh, shut up." Gollum yelled at himself. Bilba was rather confused at why he spoke to himself as if he were two people.
"Wrong again. Last guess."
"String!"
"Or nothing."
"Two guesses at once; wrong both times." She was practically taunting the creature.
Upon hearing this, Gollum fell to the floor, sobbing.
"So, come then, I won the game, you promised to show me the way out."
"Did we say so, Precious? Did we say so?" Gollum slowly turned around and glared hatefully at Bilba.
"What has it got in its pocketses?"
Bilba pointed her sword at Gollum.
"That's no concern of yours. You lost."
"Lost? Lost? Lost?"
Gollum grinned as he slowly approached Bilba, planning to kill her. He reached for something hidden at his side; realizing that the item is not there, his face registered his shock. He began groping all over himself trying to find it.
"Where is it? Where is it? No! Ahh! Where is it? No! No!"
Gollum scuttled around the cave, scattering bones and rocks as he searched in vain for the thing he was looking for. He even splashed through the shallows of the lake. His voice broke as he cried.
"Lost! Curses and splashes, my precious is lost!"
While Gollum's back was toward her, Bilba, realizing what it was that Gollum lost, quickly took the Ring from her pocket and held it in her hand behind her back.
"What have you lost?"
"Mustn't ask us! Not its business! No! Gollum, Gollum."
Gollum, leaning over the edge of the lake, sobbed quietly. As he stared into the water, his sobs ceased and his face became contorted in anger.
"What has it got in its nasty little pocketses?" In fear, Bilba clutched the Ring behind her more tightly and pointed her sword at Gollum. Gollum slowly looked up in shock and anger. At first, he whispered; he then got louder and louder until he was roaring.
"She stole it. She stole it! Ahh! SHE STOLE IT!" Snarling, Gollum threw a stone at Bilba. Bilba deflected it with her sword, then ran away, with Gollum chasing her.
Back in the throneroom of the Great Goblin, dozens of goblins carried massive instruments of torture on their shoulders, bringing them to the Great Goblin. Meanwhile, the Great Goblin is dancing and singing lustily. Ember was on her knees near the throne tied up.
"Bones will be shattered, necks will be wrung! You'll be beaten and battered, from racks you'll be hung. You will lie down here and never be found, down in the deep of Goblin Town." The great Goblin held Ember away from the dwarves. She fought his grasp every second.
"Demisrie doesn't want anything to happen to you, so you can watch your precious dwarves die. But once they're all dead. I have plans for you my dear." Kili heard his words and felt an anger rise in him as Ember tried to fight harder.
"Just let me die, please just let me die." She pleaded, tears were pouring down her face. Kili hated seeing her like that, he didn't want her to want to die. He wanted to hold her until it was all better.
"Aw, now why would I do that. You're Demisrie's toy. But, that doesn't mean I still can't...play with you." The Great Goblin had her turned around so Kili couldn't see her. When the Goblin looked into her eyes they were no longer brown but bright red.
"If you hurt any of them, or touch me in any way. Your entire sanctuary shall burn. And I will just pleasantly watch, all while laughing my ass off." She spoke with such hate and fire. The Great Goblin just smiled evilly.
Grinnah, one of the goblins, was examining the weapons the dwarves brought with them. He picked up Thorin's sword, Orcrist, and slid it a few inches out of its sheath. Recognizing the sword, he gasped in horror and threw down the sword. It landed in view of all the goblins. Recognizing it, the goblins howled in fear and rage as they retreated from it; the Great Goblin ran rapidly to his throne, trampling many goblins on his way and leaving Ember tied where he left her. He spoke loudly, pointing at the sword.
"I know that sword! It is the Goblin Cleaver, the Biter, the blade that sliced a thousand necks." As he spoke, Grinnah and the rest of the Goblins began whipping the dwarves with ropes and leaping upon them, biting and slashing. One of the small goblins leapt upon Ember and bit her shoulder, arm, and whipped her back several times. Her top had been practically destroyed from the whip's impact. And she cried out loudly in pain.
"Slash them! Beat them! Kill them! Kill them all! Cut off his head!" Goblins held Thorin down, and one of them pulled out his knife and prepared to behead Thorin.
Suddenly, there was a massive explosion of bright light; flinging goblins in the air and destroying the torturing machines. Everyone was knocked down, including the Great Goblin. When the force of the explosion has passed, most of the lights in the area had been snuffed out; in the background, a shadow with a tall pointy hat walks up. It was Gandalf, holding his staff and his sword, Glamdring.
While everyone was down and distracted, Ember burned the ropes at her wrist. She gasped out of pain and touched her shoulder lightly. When she brought her hand back it was covered in blood.
Light slowly returned to the area as the goblins and the dwarves slowly look up, recovering from the shock. They all stared at Gandalf.
"Take up arms. Fight. Fight!" The dwarves quickly get up and began fighting the goblins.
Kili's first reaction was to help Ember. He rushed to their weapons, grabbed them, and then rushed to Ember. Her shirt was only held together by a bit of string. So to keep her dignity he gave her his coat then he gave her her weapons, all before helping her stand.
"Thank you." She whispered.
"Of course, you would have done the same for me."
As goblins ran at Gandalf, he killed them with his sword and staff. The Great Goblin, still lying on the ground, saw Gandalf's sword and pointed at it, crying aloud to his goblins.
"He wields the Foe Hammer, the Beater, bright as daylight!" Some of the dwarves reached their pile of weapons and began tossing the weapons to each other; they used their weapons to defeat the goblins around them. Oin manages to reclaim his hearing trumpet, although it has been quite flattened. Nori, while fighting, landed on the floor; the Great Goblin runs at him and swung his mace.
"Nori!" Thorin jumped forward and deflected the Great Goblin's blow, causing the Great Goblin to stumble backward and fall off the edge of his platform, falling to the depths below. The rest of the dwarves and Gandalf continued to fight.
"Follow me. Quick! Run!" Cutting down the goblins around them, the dwarves and Gandalf ran along a pathway leading away from the throne room.
Bilba hurried through a cave, fleeing from Gollum, whom she could hear in the distance. She would looked over her shoulder constantly out of fear.
"Give it to us!" Gollum screamed.
Bilba was in a side cave; she saw Gollum running past the entrance of the cave she was in. Gasping, she turned around and tried to run through a very small crack in the wall. However, she got stuck partway through. She looked up in fear as Gollum, attracted by the noise, backtracked and saw Bilba stuck in the crack. Snarling, Gollum approached Bilba.
Bilba could only think of Thorin, what he had said to her. She was so scared she would never see him again.
"It's ours. It's ours!"
Gollum snarled again; Bilba exhaled and pushes as hard as she could; she manages to slip through the crack, but her waistcoat buttons were ripped off in the process and they hit Gollum in the face. Gollum snarled. On the other side of the crack, Bilba fell down from her exertions. As she hit the ground, the Ring, which was in her hand, flew into the air. As it descended, Bilba reached up to grab it; instead of landing in her hand, however, the Ring slid onto her finger, and Bilba suddenly becsme invisible. Gollum jumped into the area where Bilba was, growling, and looked around for Bilba, Gollum continued down the cave. Bilba, with the Ring on, saw everything as if she was in a different reality. It shocked her a little.
"Thief! Baggins!" Seeing Gollum run away, Bilba slowly stood up in shock.
Gandalf and the dwarves were running through the suspended passageways of Goblin Town, with hundreds of goblins running after them. Kili ran next to Ember, she was still so scared about the past events.
"Quickly!"
"Faster!" Ember yelled.
Dwalin saw several goblins running at them from in front.
"Post!" He and some of the dwarves cut a guardrail post from the side of the path and they held it out in front of them like a massive spear.
"Charge!" He and the other dwarves charged at the incoming goblins and swept them away with the long rail. Dropping the rail, Dwalin pulled out his axes and began knocking aside goblins. The rest of the company did the same. Gloin hit one goblin who fell and landed on another suspended path, breaking the path and dropping all the goblins on it into the darkness below. The rest of the Company also fought the goblins around them with their various weapons and fighting styles. Several goblins snarled as they swung on ropes toward the dwarves.
"Cut the ropes!"
Thorin and some of the dwarves cut the ropes holding a raised platform in place; the platform fell outward, entangling the goblins swinging on the ropes. As Kili fought next to Ember, several goblins started shooting arrows at him and her. He deflectsed some arrows with his sword; he then grabbed a nearby ladder and dropped it on the oncoming goblins. Kili and some of the other dwarves ran forward, pushing the ladder and the goblins it had trapped in front of them. As they approached a missing area of the path, the goblins fall down into the darkness; the ladder, however, acted as a bridge for the dwarves to cross to the rest of the path. As soon as they crossed it, Dwalin broke the ladder, preventing the goblins chasing them from crossing it.
"Quickly!" Gandalf yelled.
The dwarves and Gandalf continued running through the maze like paths; they got on a section of the path suspended by ropes from above. They sliced some ropes, and the pathway swung away from the rest of the path, approaching a different path.
"Jump!" Thorin yelled.
Several of the dwarves, including Thorin and Kili, managed to jump to the other path; however, before the rest could, the suspended path swung back like a pendulum to where it started, and several goblins leapt on. As the path swung back again, the rest of the dwarves, Ember, and Gandalf manage to jump to the new path.
Ember cut the ropes before jumping into Kili's waiting arms.
The cut ropes caused the swinging path and the goblins on it to fall. The dwarves and Gandalf continued running through the tunnels, killing all the goblins in their way. Gandalf struck a rock above them with his staff, causing the rock to fall down and it began rolling in front of the Company, squashing all the goblins in their way. Soon, they approached a bridge between two walls of the cavern. As they tried to cross it, the Great Goblin suddenly broke through from underneath the bridge and pulled himself up onto the bridge, in front of the Company. As the Company paused, hundreds of goblins approached them from all sides.
"You thought you could escape me?" The Great Goblin swung his mace twice and Gandalf, causing Gandalf to stumble back and almost fall.
"What are you going to do now, wizard?"
Gandalf leapt forward and struck the Great Goblin in the eye with his staff. The Great Goblin dropped his mace and clutched his face in pain.
"Ow, ow, ow!" Gandalf stepped forward and sliced the Great Goblin in the stomach; the Great Goblin fell to his knees, clutching his belly.
"That'll do it." Gandalf again swung his sword and slices the Great Goblin's neck, causing him to fall down, dead.
His weight caused the bridge to start shaking; suddenly, the section of the bridge on which the company was standing broke away from the rest of the bridge and started sliding down the side of the cavern. The bridge slid at a terrific speed down the cavern's wall, demolishing everything in its way; the dwarves clung on, screaming in terror. The bridge slowed down and landed at the base of the cavern, breaking apart and burying the dwarves in the timber and wood. Gandalf got up from the pile of wreckage and inspected the rest of the dwarves, who were still stuck in the wreckage.
"Well, that could have been worse."
Suddenly, the heavy corpse of the Great Goblin landed on the wreckage, squishing the dwarves further. They cried out in pain.
"You've got to be joking!"
"Son of a bitch!" Ember yelled and gasped in pain as one of the splinters of wood bore into her back, right where one of the goblins had whipped her.
As the dwarves extricated themselves from the rubble, Kili looked up and saw thousands of goblins running at them, climbing down the walls, they looked like little ants.
"Gandalf!" Kili yelled before looking at Ember. She just stared up at the incoming goblins, tears were beginning to run down her face. She then looked at Gandalf.
"There's too many! We can't fight them." Dwalin exclaimed.
"Only one thing will save us: daylight! Come on! Here, on your feet!"
The dwarves got up quickly, helping each other out of the rubble, and they ran away, following Gandalf.