ch 7&8

In chapter 7, Gandolf says he must leave the group of dwarfs after he leads them to Beorn's house but will help them with things when necessary. Beorn gives the group basic needs and tells them they should take the elf path through Elkwood. After this, the group heads to the forest where the elf path is. In chapter 8, the group heads through the forest and finds it very creepy and dark with no end to be in sight. Soon enough, it gets so dark that everyone gets separated from one another and after hearing many voices and trying to find them, Bilbo becomes exhausted and decides to dose off. When Bilbo awakens, he finds himself tangled in spider web and he has to slice himself out of it and kill the spider. After this, he finds that everyone else is also tangled in webs as well and has to cut them free. When they're all free, they realize that Thorin is missing and has been taken by the elves.

I disliked chapters 7 and 8 because after reading this far into the book, it seems to be extremely repetitive. Each chapter starting from chapter 2 starts out where they run into a group of elves that either help the group out by telling them where to go to get somewhere or by giving them food and ponies or they run into goblins that either kidnap them or threaten to eat them or else they run into something like spiders, as in chapter 7, where they do the same as the goblins and usually this all happens because one of the dwarfs doesn't listen to what one of the helper elves that they "just happen to run into" say.

There also many other things that confuse me so far in this book. A couple great examples of this would be if Gandalf is magical enough to command random  eagles to come out of no where to save them then why can't Gandalf just transport the group to the Lonely mountain rather than making them suffer like 10 chapters going through forests and mountains? Does he not have anything else to do in his spare time? Has this question never came across his mind at least once? Why do people make books that make me want to ask so many questions? Do they not have anything to do in their spare time as well? How can I write paragraphs about my opinion if I have so many questions left unanswered? If you want my opinion, I think this book is too unamusing to be taught to a teenage audience.