After Bilbo spoke, Annelise saw her cousins look to the Hobbit with a look in their eyes that she did not trust. At the sight, she got a bad feeling that things would not go well for the Hobbit.
Her intuition was proven right when she heard the words that came out of Kili's mouth the next second.
"Yes, you should," Kili said, walking up to Bilbo and grabbing him and taking on of the bowls from his hands, before pushing him over to Fili. "Mountain trolls are slow and stupid, and you're so small, they'll never see you."
The whole time Kili was speaking, Annelise was standing behind Fili shaking her head, while Bilbo was protesting against everything Kili said.
"It's perfectly safe. We'll be right behind you," Kili continued. Annelise couldn't help but roll her eyes at the back of her cousins' head when she heard that statement.
"If you run into trouble," Fili continued, grabbing the last bowl from Bilbo's hand, "hoot twice like a barn owl and once like a brown owl."
As he finished speaking, Fili pushed Bilbo out passed the trees creating their hiding spot and the Hobbit began walking toward the troll's fire.
Annelise could hear the Hobbit whispering Fili's instructions to himself as he moved closer.
Once he moved out of range of hearing them, Fili and Kili turned to run back to the camp to get help.
At first, Annelise followed her cousin's before she turned and looked back at the Hobbit.
'I can't just let him do this alone. He doesn't even have a weapon. What if he is seen and gets caught?,' Annelise thought to herself.
She turned back to look at her cousins but they were already out of sight. Seeing that they weren't there to dissuade her, Annelise turned and ran as quietly as she could toward Bilbo and troll's fire.
When Annelise reached the edge of the clearing, she stopped just outside of the ring of light to assess the situation. The first thing she noticed was one of the trolls holding the nose of another before yelling at him to sit down.
At the strange sight, Annelise was a bit confused but shook the thought from her head as she looked around trying to spot the small Hobbit.
As Annelise heard one of the trolls sneeze, she saw Bilbo standing by a makeshift pen holding the ponies.
Annelise slowly began walking around the edge of the clearing, trying to get closer to the Hobbit so that she could help him.
While she did this, the trolls continued speaking. Annelise ignored most of their conversation until she heard them talking about the ponies. One of them began moving toward them and she stopped quickly and turned to look at Bilbo to make sure that he was alright. She was relieved to see that the troll moved away at the command of the leader.
Annelise quickly tried to move over to where she had last seen Bilbo, but by the time she got over to the pen, the Hobbit was gone.
She looked around frantically and finally saw him standing behind one of the trolls. From what she could tell, it looked like he was trying to steal it's knife.
She was just about to try and get his attention when the troll reached behind himself to grab a cloth and then sneezed all over the Hobbit.
Annelise couldn't help but cringe in disgust when she saw all of the snot that was covering the poor Hobbit's body.
The troll threw Bilbo to the ground in disgust and Annelise quickly drew an arrow from her quiver and set it in her bow.
Bilbo had stood up and found himself surrounded by trolls.
Before she took aim at the leader of the trolls, it began to speak.
"What are you then? An oversized squirrel?"
Bilbo answered nervously, "I'm a burgla-hobbit!"
"A burglarhobbit?" said the second troll.
"Can we cook it?" asked the first, to which the second replied, "We can try!"
At these words, all three of the trolls began moving closer to Bilbo, causing Annelise to draw her arrow back to her cheek.
"He wouldn't make more than a mouthful. Not when he's skinned and boned!" the third troll said poking Bilbo with his spoon. This pushed Bilbo back toward the first troll, making Annelise changed the direction of her aim.
"Perhaps there's more burglarhobbits around here. Might be enough for a pie!" said the first troll, pushing poor Bilbo toward the second troll.
"Grab him!" yelled the second troll. All the trolls tried to grab the Hobbit, but missed him. "He's too quick!"
Annelise tried to find a good shot to help Bilbo escape but the trolls were moving too much and she didn't want to risk hitting the Hobbit.
"Aww, come here you little-! Gotcha!" yelled the first troll as he caught Bilbo by the foot and held him upside down with a knife pointed at him. "Are there any more of you little fellas hiding were you shouldn't?"
"No!"
"He's lying!" said the second troll. "Hold his toes over the fire! Make him squeal!"
At this, Annelise let her arrow go and it hit the wrist of the troll that was holding Bilbo in the air. The troll yelled loudly and dropped the Hobbit, who thankfully landed on his back.
As this happened, Annelise heard the third troll yelp loudly and turned to see that Kili had sliced him in the back of the leg. Annelise quickly ran into the clearing toward her cousin to help him, but was grabbed by the third troll.
The troll held Annelise around her middle and squeezed, making her scream in pain.
"Well what do we have here? You're much too pretty to be a burglarhobbit. You must be one of the race of Men," the troll said holding her close to his face.
"Let her go!" Kili yelled loudly to the troll. Just as he yelled this, Annelise saw her father burst from the forest into the clearing along with the rest of the dwarves.
"Annelise!" he yelled. "Let my daughter go!" he said charging at the third troll and cutting him across the leg.
The troll yelled in pain and loosened his grip enough that Annelise was able to kick his in the face, causing him to drop her.
She fell to the ground and stood to see the rest of the company taking on the trolls. She quickly looked to check that Bilbo was alright and saw him trying to let the ponies free. She ran over to him, occasionally shooting an arrow at the trolls.
Once she reached him she put her bow back in her quiver and drew one of her twin blades and quickly cut through the rope holding the ponies in. She had just put the blade back into it's sheath in her quiver when she was grabbed around the middle again. Judging by the yelp she heard from Bilbo, Annelise could tell that he had been caught as well.
She was held in one of the hands of the first troll while the second and third each had a hold on Bilbo's arms and legs.
The Company saw Bilbo in the arms of the trolls and Kili yelled his name and began charging them, before her father stopped him.
The first troll walked closer to the Company and Annelise knew the exact moment her father saw her, for his shoulders sank a little and his eyes lost the fire they held whenever he fought.
"Annelise," she heard him say quietly.
Fili took a step closer toward her but the troll holding her held what looked to be a very crude fork to her stomach. This caused her cousin to stop short and lower his weapon a fraction.
"Lower your arms! Or we'll rip his off!" yelled the third troll, tightening his hold on Bilbo.
The Company didn't move, so the troll holding Annelise pushed his weapon into her stomach further. Annelise knew that if she hadn't been wearing her jerkin, the metal would have already cut into her skin.
"Do it or I'll gut the girl!" yelled the troll.
At this, Annelise saw her father and cousins throw their weapons down and the rest of the dwarves followed soon after.
The trolls placed Bilbo, Annelise, Thorin, Fili, Kili, Dwalin, and Bombur into sacks and tied the rest to a log that was rotating over their fire.
Annelise was sitting between Bilbo and her father on the ground with her back against a rock.
"Are you alright, Annelise?" Thorin asked quietly, trying not to draw the attention of the trolls.
"I'm alright, Father. Not a scratch, though I may have a few bruises from that troll's fork," Annelise said with a chuckle, trying to distract her father from his thoughts. She knew he hated it when she got hurt.
Annelise then went back to listening to whatever that trolls were saying when she heard something interesting.
"I don't fancy being turned into stone."
Annelise quickly turned to Bilbo and asked what they had been talking about.
"They said something about not having all night and that dawn was approaching. That's when they mentioned turning into stone. Maybe sunlight turns them into stone," Bilbo explained excitedly, without making too much noise.
"Well that's perfect then! If we can distract them until dawn, then we can get out of here!"
"Ok, just follow my lead," Bilbo said, before yelling to the trolls.
"Wait! You are making a terrible mistake."
"You can't reason with 'em! They're half-wits!" yelled one of the dwarves above the fire.
"Half-wits? If they're half-wits, what does that make us?" Bofur said sarcastically.
"No, he's right! You're making a mistake!" Annelise yelled loudly, trying to help Bilbo out.
Bilbo quickly somehow managed to stand up before saying, "I mean with the, uh, with the seasoning."
"Yeah I don't know where you're going with this now," Annelise said leaning back against the rock again.
"What about the seasoning?" asked the third troll, leaning down closer to the Hobbit.
"Well, have you smelt them? You're gonna need something stronger than sage before you plate this lot up."
"Hurtful," Annelise mumbled quietly under her breath, while the rest of the dwarves protested loudly.
"What do you know about cooking dwarves?" asked the first troll.
"Shut up. Let the, uh, flurgaburburhobbit talk," said the third troll.
Annelise couldn't help but snort quietly when Bilbo nodded gratefully at the troll before turning to the first troll again.
"Uh, the secret to cooking dwarf is...uh. The secret is-"
"Yes what is it?"
"It's uh-"
"Tell us the secret."
"Yes, I'm telling you. The secret is...to skin them first," Bilbo finished uncertainly.
'You don't sound so sure about that, Bilbo,' Annelise thought to herself with a small smirk on her face.
At these words, the dwarves began protesting loudly and shouting some rather rude things at Bilbo. Annelise quickly turned to her father and whispered quietly so she would not be overheard.
"Father, you need to trust Bilbo. He has a plan."
After a moment, Thorin glanced from his daughter's eyes to the small Hobbit standing before the three large trolls, before nodding slightly in her direction.
The first troll turned to the others as this was going on. "Fetch me my filleting knife," he said waving his hand behind him.
These words caused the dwarves to yell even louder, throwing rude comments at the Hobbit.
"What a load of rubbish!" yelled the second troll. "I've eaten plenty with their skins on. Scarf 'em I say, boots an' all!"
Annelise noticed Bilbo glancing at something behind him quickly, before turning toward the trolls once more.
"He's right," added the third troll. "Nothing wrong with a bit of raw dwarf!"
With these words, the troll moved to pick up Bombur and dangle him above his head by the dwarve's feet.
"Nice and crunchy!" he exclaimed, before he began lowering the larger dwarf toward his mouth.
Annelise quickly jumped up from her place leaning against the rock and her father before yelling, "No, wait! You don't want to eat that one!"
Quickly Bilbo caught on and decided to add on, "He's infected! Not that one!"
This caused the troll to stop and look back at Bilbo. "Huh?!"
"You wot?" added the second troll, upon hearing the words the Hobbit spoke.
"Yeah, he's got worms in his..." Bilbo began, drifting off uncertainly.
"In his tubes," Annelise quickly supplied.
"His tubes, yes in his tubes," the hobbit said, nodding his head quickly.
At this, the troll dropped Bombur, causing him to land on top of Kili. In a less serious situation, Annelise might have laughed at the face her cousin made.
"In fact, they all have. They're infested with parasites. It's a terrible business. I wouldn't risk it. I really wouldn't," Bilbo continued as the trolls looked down at their catch with some apprehension.
"Parasites?! Did he say parasites?!" Oin exclaimed loudly to Kili.
"Yeah we don't have parasites! You have parasites!" Kili yelled back at Bilbo.
Annelise glanced around and saw her father and Balin rolling their eyes at her cousin, as Bilbo tried not to look entirely annoyed.
The dwarves continued to yell at Bilbo, before Thorin gave Kili and Oin a quick kick, causing them to be silent.
There was a pause when the pair looked up at Thorin, before turning back around.
Annelise couldn't contain her small chuckle at the next words that came out of Kili and Oin's mouths.
"I've got parasites as big as my arm!" the old dwarf exclaimed.
"Mine are the biggest parasites! I've got huge parasites!" Kili added.
Soon the rest of the company caught on to Bilbo's plan and began yelling about their 'parasites' as well.
Annelise watched the trolls as they began looking around, obviously not knowing what to do with a company of dwarves with parasites.
"What would you have us do, then?" the first troll said, approaching Bilbo slowly. Annelise began inching her way closer to the Hobbit as the troll drew nearer.
"Let them all go?!"
"Well..." Bilbo began, tilting his head to the side nonchalantly.
"Do you think I don't know what you're up to?!"
With these words, the lead troll reached toward Bilbo. Annelise, anticipating the troll's movements, jumped in front of Bilbo before the troll reached him. The troll changed the direction of his swing and pushed Annelise to the ground. She landed on her left shoulder, and felt it hit a rock on the ground. Even through the bag she was in, she could feel the rock cut through her skin.
"Annelise!" her father and Bilbo called out at the same time, after hearing the quiet shout of pain that escaped her mouth when she hit the ground.
The trolls paid her no mind and continued on as though nothing had happened.
"This little ferret is taking us for fools," the first troll said as he went back to spinning the log that held a few of the dwarves above their fire.
"Ferret?" Bilbo protested, obviously offended by the name.
"Fools?" echoed the second troll.
"The dawn will take you all!" yelled a voice Annelise couldn't have been more relieved to hear.
"Gandalf!" Annelise cried quietly, as the wizard stood upon a large boulder behind the trolls looking upon the scene before him.
"Who's that?"
"No idea."
"Can we eat him too?"
At this, the grey wizard raised his staff and slammed it down upon the rock below him. The impact caused the stone to crack and Gandalf quickly stepped to the side as it crumbled, to reveal the rising sun behind it.
When the sun hit Annelise's skin, she couldn't help but feel strengthened and refreshed. She closed her eyes momentarily, soaking up the first light of the day. Feeling the heat the light gave off warmed her heart and helped to raise her spirits.
She quickly opened her eyes when she heard the yells coming from the trolls. The sunlight was having the opposite effect as it did for her. The trolls' bodies when hardening and turning into stone as the light touched them. Soon all that was left as proof of their ordeal was three stone statues and a huge fire, dwarves still hanging over it.