



More deer appear, and the dwarves use all their arrows trying to kill one.īilbo and the dwarves travel on, hungry and discouraged, through the forest of Mirkwood, carrying the sleeping Bombur. When they pull him out, he is asleep - enchanted by the waters of the stream. Thorin fires an arrow at him, as they need the meat, and in the confusion Bombur sets the boat adrift and falls into the stream. They have just disembarked on the other side when they are startled by a deer leaping the stream. With great difficulty, they use iron hooks from their packs to pull the boat toward them. They come to the enchanted stream Beorn warned about, and Bilbo sees a boat on the other side. Bilbo and the dwarves begin to go through the dark and dreadful forest of Mirkwood.
