Barrels Out of Bond

Is the ninth chapter of J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit.


 * 9 - Barrels Out Of Bond - The Dwarves, like Thorin are captured by the Elves and brought before the Elven-king, however Bilbo, who had put on the ring and became invisible, was not captured though he followed the Elves and the captured Dwarves. The Dwarves refused to tell Thranduil why they were in the forest, and so the Elven-king had them locked up in separate cells. Bilbo (being invisible) wondered Thranduil’s halls, until on the night a great feast he was able to free the Dwarves and load them into barrels to escape from the Elven-kingdom. His plan succeeded and the Dwarves within some of the barrels, and Bilbo clinging on to one went up the river to a town of raft-elves who sent the barrels on the way to Lake-town.