“What were you doing in the forest?”
     “Looking for food and drink, because we were starving.”
     “But what brought you into the forest at all?” asked the king angrily.
     
     “Very well!” said the king. “Take him away and keep him safe, until he
feels inclined to tell the truth, even if he waits a hundred years.’”
Then the elves put thongs on him, and shut him in one of the inmost
caves with strong wooden doors, and left him. They gave him food and
drink, plenty of both, if not very fine; for Wood-elves were not
goblins, and were
     The giant spiders were the
     There in the king’s dungeon poor Thorin lay; and after he had got over
his thankfulness for bread and meat and water, he began to wonder what
had become of his unfortunate friends. It was not very long before he
discovered; but that belongs to the next chapter and the beginning of
another adventure in which the hobbit again showed his usefulness.
     

     Chapter 9
     Barrels Out of Bond