ch17&18

In chapter 17, Bard offers Thorin another agreement and he declines it for the second time. When he does this, he shows him the arkenstone and Bilbo tells him that he gave it to them. When Thorin becomes very angry at Bilbo, one of the messengers reveals himself to be Gandalf, silences Thorin and Bilbo tells Thorin that he thought that the elves needed their fair share. In order to gain the arkenstone, Thorin offers a fourteenth of the treasure to them. Although this is true, Thorin knows that his relatives are coming toward the mountain and with their help can regain the arkenstone with power. When they come, an army of goblins comes along with them and the dwarfs and the elves are forced to fight together against the goblins. Later in the fight, eagles come from the sky to help the elves and dwarfs but Bilbo falls into a coma from being hit in the head with a rock. In chapter 18, Bilbo wakes up with a head ache, eventually figures out that the dwarfs and the elves won, two of the dwarfs, Fili and Kili died, and then Gandalf tells him what happened.  

I don't like chapter 17 because there's a lot more talking and arguing than there is action, its kind of like a soap opera. Maybe I'm a little bit too critical but I can get bored really easily. I think that Thorin needs to be more thankful that he's alive on this long journey rather than he being so angry for only getting thirteen fourteenths of the treasure. I'm surprised he hasn't figured out by now that he can't always get what he wants after getting in so much trouble from being so risky.

I liked chapter 18 because of the intensity of the battle. Of coarse, it was obvious from the beginning that the dwarfs were going to win it was just the wondering of how that was the most interesting. Although the outcome was expected, I would've never expected Bilbo to be knocked unconscious during the war because the main character is always in the action. If I were Bilbo though, I don't think I'd forgive Thorin for saying what I did because I think he needs to learn a lesson by not being so prideful