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How do the people of Lake-town treat the dwarves and Bilbo?
Lake Town is a human city, built on Long Lake, south of the Lonely Mountain. At Lake Town, the barrels are brought to shore when boats from the town row out and cast ropes toward the floaters, and while the men are away, Bilbo frees his companions from the barrels. They treat the dwarves and even Bilbo like kings.
How did the Lake-town react to the dwarves arrival?
Excited but scared that the dwarves really had returned. They were not sure if the dwarves were frauds, but went along. How did the Wood-elves learn about Thorin’s arrival in Laketown? Elves saw excitement in town, and guess what was happening.
Why do the residents of the town welcome the dwarves?
Why does the master welcome the expedition? Bilbo and the dwarves were welcomed into Lake-town because of Thorin’s ancestry. Thorin is the descendant of a past king. The people of Lake-town welcomed the group into Lake-town wholeheartedly and the king was unable to object due to the risk of upsetting his people.
What is significant about Lake-town in The Hobbit?
Esgaroth, or Lake-town, is a fictional community of Men upon the Long Lake that appears in the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The town’s prosperity is apparently built upon trade between the Men who inhabit it, and the Elves and the Dwarves of northern Middle-earth.
Why did the hobbit and dwarves neglect?
It is their hunger and starvation that tempt them off the path and make them ignore the warnings they had been given by Beorn and Gandalf.
Why are the dwarves happy why is Bilbo unhappy?
Why is Bilbo unhappy? Dwarves are happy because they are replenished with energy and food and they are almost to a journey’s end. Bilbo is unhappy because they are getting closer to the mountain and he has to soon go in. He believes the dwarves won’t make it and the dragon will kill them.
Why did the master treat the travelers well?
Why did the Master treat the travelers so well, and send them to the mountains with provisions? If they weren’t actually frauds, they would bring him back some of the treasure. He also felt peer pressure because all of the people were so excited.
Why does the master help the dwarves?
Why does the Master decide to help the dwarves continue their quest to recover their treasure? Because it is to expensive to keep them and no one had worked since they had arrived.
Did Lake-town get rebuilt?
Smaug destroys Lake-town The town was visited by Bilbo Baggins and Thorin and Company in their adventure to reclaim the Lonely Mountain. Afterwards, Lake-town was rebuilt in greater splendor than before with some of the treasure that Smaug had stolen, though the town’s Master ran off with some of the gold.