Summary
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- Bilbo wakes up in a goblin tunnels after falling off of Dori's back
- He feels comforted by his sword
- He finds a ring on the ground and puts it in his pocket
- Bilbo meets a creature in a cave named Gollum and agrees to a game of riddles. If Bilbo wins, Gollum will show him the way out but if not, Gollum will eat him. Bilbo wins!
- Gollum tries to kill Bilbo anyways but can't find his magic ring that turns him invisible, the one that Bilbo found
- Bilbo secretly follows Gollum out of the tunnels (he is invisible with the ring)
- Bilbo sneaks past goblins and exits the door leading out of the mountain
The Hero Cycle
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-"Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.- This part of the story is in the fifth part of the hero cycle in the middle of the Road of Trials, he is starting to become the hero he is meant to be starting with the trolls on the road and continuing through this part of the story. He is starting to know how become the hero he was meant to be, if he would have been put in this situation right after he had left his home he would have not been able to be courages enough to get past Gollum and out of the Goblin's cave.