ch 15&16

In chapter 15, the humans from Laketown send a raven to tell the group of dwarfs that Smaug is dead along with all of Laketown and Thorin plans to fight them for it. When the dwarfs get to the gate, they build a wall and the elves soon approach them. When they do Bard asks if they would share the treasure because of all that they have been through but Thorin does not let them because it was originally owned by his people. Bilbo greatly disagrees with this but feels that he can do nothing about it. In chapter 16, Thorin continues to look for the arkenstone in which Bilbo has. Because Bilbo disagrees so much with Throin, he decides that in the middle of the night that he sneak out to the elves' campsite and give them the arkenstone. When Bilbo runs back up the mountain, he runs into Gandalf who is very proud of what Bilbo has done.

After reading chapter 15, I have now came to the permanent conclusion that Thorin is more selfish then the Great Goblin because he will not even give valubles to someone who's town just got demolished by a dragon and has no home. It's not like he would actually win in a fight against all those elves. I believe that if anyone, Thorin deserves to die. It seems to me that Bilbo is the only one that actually has a brain in the group that he is in and is the only reason that all the dwarves are still up and moving.

I liked chapter 16 because its more towards the climax of the story and is much more intense than the other chapters. I liked the decision that Bilbo makes in how he gives the arkenstone to the oposite team and stands up for what he thinks is right rather than falling into peer preasure like the rest of the dwarfs do. I feel as if this book is coming to a very smooth ending with a good way to conclude the moral of the story which is that you have to do the right things and do as told in order to get what you want.