Thorin and the company turn toward the forest. Thorin tells them "Come on. We must reach the mountain before the sun sets on Durin's Day." Dwalin says "Durin's Day. Let's go !" Thorin says "This is our one chance to find the hidden door." The company enters Mirkwood. They are following the paved path that started at the Elven Gate. Thorin leads. At one point, the path turns a corner. Thorin says "The path goes this way." As the dwarves and Bilbo keep following the path through the forest, it twists and turns over all sorts of terrain such as bare ground, high ledges, fallen tree trunks, and more. The color palette used is very blue/gray, and gloomy. Dwalin thumps the handle of his hammer on the ground to find the paving stones of the trail "This way." They continue walking. Bofur sayss "Air. I need air." Oin says "My head, it's spinning." The dwarves suddenly run into each other as Nori, in front, stops abruptly. Oin asks "What's happening ?" Thorin asks "Keep moving. Nori, why have we stopped ?" Nori tells him "The path... it's disappeared !" Dwalin asks "What's going on ?" Oin shouts "We've lost the path !" They are standing in front of a steep cliff, and there is no path ahead of them. Thorin shouts "Find it. All of you look. Look for the path !" Meanwhile, the path is not far away from them, but on the other side of the cliff. They had unknowingly left it some time ago. The company wanders through the forest. The forest is beginning to affect them mentally, and they stagger about : Balin : "I don't remember this place before. None of it's familiar." Dori : "It's got to be here." Thyri : "What hour is it ?" Dwalin : "I do not know. I don't even know what day it is."
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Thorin : "Is there no end to this accursed place ?" The dwarves are all muttering and rambling as they wander about. Bilbo absentmindedly plucks a spiderweb; it vibrates, and the vibrations continue through the various linked spiderwebs and far off into the forest. Bilbo plucks the web again. He hears a strange whispering noise. They continue walking. Bilbo looks down and sees himself walking backward, although it's actually just an illusion. He looks back at Dori, behind him, and sees himself. His entire vision begins shifting and tilting. Ori leans down and picks up a tobacco pouch "Look." Dori then takes it from him "A tobacco pouch "There's dwarves in these woods." Bofur takes the pouch from Dori "Dwarves from the Blue Mountains, no less. This is exactly the same as mine." Bilbo says "Because it is yours. You understand ?" Thyri groans "We're going round in circles. We are lost." Dwalin says "We're not lost. We keep heading east." Oin says "But which way is east ? We've lost the sun." As the dwarves begin bickering indistinctly, Bilbo looks up and sees a bit of sun through the tree far above him. He speaks quietly, and no one else can hear him over the bickering "The sun. We have to find the sun. Up there. We need to-" The dwarves have started fighting and pushing each other around. Thorin stands apart, listening. He hears the strange whispering sound that Bilbo heard earlier and mutters to himself "What ? What's that ?" He asks his sister who is standing next to him "Sister, do you hear that ?" She nods "Yeah. What is it ?" The whispering continues. Thyri turns and yells at the dwarves "Enough ! Quiet ! All of you !" Thorin says "We're being watched." Bilbo climbs up one of the trees nearby. As he crawls, he doesn't notice the masses of spiderwebs all around him. His head breaks through the trees and into the air; suddenly, it is as if a spell has been broken, and Bilbo's head clears. As he breathes deeply, he sees blue butterflies flying all around him.
