The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Page #3

- Up the stairs.

- You first.

Ori.

Not that way. Down here. Follow me.

Go.

Easy, now.

This way.

Come on.

I don't believe it. We're in the cellars!

You were supposed to be leading us out,

not further in!

I know what I'm doing!

Shh!

This way! This way!

Everyone...

- ...climb into the barrels quickly.

- Are you mad?

- They'll find us.

- No, no.

They won't, I promise you.

Please, please. You must trust me.

Do as he says.

Move your big ginger head.

Bifur, get in...

...the barrel! Move!

Everyone's in.

What do we do now?

Hold your breath.

Hold my breath? What do you mean?

Where is the Keeper of the Keys?

Well done, Master Baggins.

Go! Come on, let's go!

Hold on!

Bilbo!

Hang on!

- Help!

- Ori!

No!

Watch out! There's Orcs!

Get under the bridge!

Kili!

Kili!

Kili.

Kili!

Nori!

Cut the log!

Bombur!

Tauriel.

Oh, it's you!

Why am I here, Gandalf?

Trust me, Radagast.

I would not have called you here

without good reason.

This is not a nice place to meet.

No.

It is not.

These are dark spells, Gandalf.

Old and full of hate.

Who's buried here?

If he had a name,

it's long since been lost.

He would have been known only...

...as a servant of evil.

One of a number.

One of nine.

Why now, Gandalf? I don't understand.

The Ringwraiths...

...have been summoned to Dol Guldur.

But it cannot be the Necromancer.

A human sorcerer

could not summon such evil.

Who said it was human?

The Nine only answer to one master.

We've been blind, Radagast.

And in our blindness...

...the Enemy has returned.

He is summoning his servants.

Azog the Defiler...

...is no ordinary hunter.

He is a commander.

A commander of legions.

The Enemy is preparing for war.

It will begin in the East.

His mind is set upon that mountain.

- Where are you going?

- To rejoin the others.

Gandalf.

I started this. I cannot forsake them.

They are in grave danger.

If what you say is true...

...the world is in grave danger.

The power in that fortress

will only grow stronger.

You want me to cast my friends aside?

- Anything behind us?

- Not that I can see.

- I think we've outrun the Orcs.

- Not for long. We've lost the current.

Bombur's half drowned.

- Make for the shore!

- Aye.

Come on, let's go!

Gloin, help me, my brother.

Come on, lift yourself.

Come on!

Come on, you big lump, you!

I'm fine. It's nothing.

On your feet.

Kili's wounded. His leg needs binding.

There's an Orc pack on our tail.

We keep moving.

To where?

To the mountain. We're so close.

A lake lies between us and that mountain.

- We have no way to cross it.

- So then we go around.

The Orcs will run us down,

as sure as daylight.

We've no weapons to defend ourselves.

Bind his leg, quickly.

You have two minutes.

Do it again...

...and you're dead.

Excuse me...

...but you're from Lake-town,

if I'm not mistaken.

That barge over there...

...it wouldn't be available for hire,

by any chance?

What makes you think I would help you?

Those boots have seen better days.

As has that coat.

No doubt you have

some hungry mouths to feed.

How many bairns?

A boy and two girls.

And your wife, I imagine she's a beauty.

Aye.

She was.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to...

Oh, come on, come on.

Enough of the niceties.

What's your hurry?

What's it to you?

I would like to know who you are...

...and what you are doing in these lands.

We are simple merchants

from the Blue Mountains...

...journeying to see our kin...

...in the Iron Hills.

Simple merchants, you say?

We need food...

...supplies, weapons.

Can you help us?

I know where these...

...barrels came from.

What of it?

I don't know what business you had

with the Elves...

...but I don't think it ended well.

No one enters Lake-town...

...but by leave of the Master.

All his wealth comes from trade

with the Woodland Realm.

He would see you in irons before

risking the wrath of King Thranduil.

Offer him more.

I'll wager there are...

...ways to enter that town unseen.

Aye.

But for that...

...you would need a smuggler.

For which we would pay double.

Such is the nature of evil.

Out there in...

...the vast ignorance of the world...

...it festers and spreads.

A shadow that grows in the dark.

A sleepless malice as black...

...as the oncoming wall of night.

So it ever was.

So will it always be.

In time, all foul things come forth.

You were tracking a company of 13 Dwarves.

Why?

Not 13.

Not anymore.

The young one...

...the black-haired archer...

...we stuck him with a Morgul shaft.

The poison's in his blood. He'll be...

...choking on it soon.

Answer the question, filth.

I would not antagonize her.

You like killing things, Orc?

You like death?

Then let me give it to you.

I do not care about one...

...dead Dwarf. Answer the question.

You have nothing to fear. Tell us...

...what you know

and I will set you free.

You had orders to kill them. Why?

What is Thorin Oakenshield to you?

The Dwarf runt will never be king.

King?

There is no King Under the Mountain,

nor will there ever be.

None would dare enter Erebor...

...whilst the dragon lives.

You know nothing.

Your world will burn.

What are you talking about?

Speak!

Our time has come again.

My master serves the One.

Do you understand now, Elfling?

Death is upon you.

The flames of war...

...are upon you.

Why did you do that?

You promised to set him free.

And I did.

I freed his wretched head

from his miserable shoulders.

There was more...

...the Orc could tell us.

There was nothing more he could tell me.

What did he mean by "the flames of war"?

It means they intend to

unleash a weapon so great...

...it will destroy all before it.

I want the watch doubled at our borders.

All roads, all rivers.

Nothing moves, but I hear of it.

No one enters this kingdom.

And no one leaves it.

Watch out!

What are you trying...

...to do, drown us?

I was born and bred on these waters,

Master Dwarf.

If I wanted to drown you...

...I would not do it here.

Oh, I've had enough of this lippy Lakeman.

I say we throw him over the side

and be done with it.

- Bard, his name's Bard.

- How do you know?

Uh, I asked him.

I don't care what he calls himself.

I don't like him.

We do not have to like him.

We simply have to pay him.

Come on now, lads. Turn out...

...your pockets.

How do we know he won't betray us?

We don't.

There's...

...just a wee problem.

We're 10 coins short.

Gloin.

Come on.

- Give us what you have.

- Don't look to me.

I have been bled dry...

...by this venture.

What have I seen...

...for my investment?

Naught but misery and...

...grief and...

Bless my beard.

Take it.

- Take all of it.

- Ahem.

The money, quick. Give it to me.

We will pay you when we...

...get our provisions but not before.

If you value your freedom,

you'll do as I say.

There are guards ahead.

What's he doing?

He's talking to someone.

He's pointing right at us.

Now they're...

...shaking hands.

- What?

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