Page 189 - The Hobbit

horn and shot an arrow at the speaker. It smote into his shield and stuck there

quivering.
'"Since such is your answer," he called in return, "I declare the Mountain
besieged. You shall not depart from it, until you call on your side for a truce and a

parley. We will bear no weapons against you, but we leave you to your gold. You
may eat that, if you will!"
With that the messengers departed swiftly, and the dwarves were left to
consider their case. So grim had Thorin become, that even if they had wished, the

others would not have dared to find fault with him; but indeed most of them
seemed to share his mind-except perhaps old fat Bombur and Fili and Kili. Bilbo,
of course, disapproved of the whole turn of affairs. He had by now had more than

enough of the Mountain, and being besieged inside it was not at all to his taste.
"The whole place still stinks of dragon," he grumbled to himself, "and it makes
me sick. And cram is beginning simply to stick in my throat."