Discussion questions – Hobbit Chapter 16 “A Thief in the Night” and Chapter 17 “The Clouds Burst”

1. He puts on his ring of invisibility and goes to the elves. He asks to be taken to Bard, and gives him the Arkenstone for using it in negotiating peace with Thorin.

4. Dain was the son of Náin. Dain is Thorin’s cousin.

5. Just as a battle is about to break out between the elves and men and the dwarves, the skies darken, and Gandalf comes, bringing news that goblins and wargs is about to arrive – the skies are black because an army of bats.

2. Gandalf who pretended himself to be the old, cloaked man.