I Would Rather Be Eaten by a Dragon Than Die in This Tunnel

i was surprised that it said that they were waiting for days in that dark tunnel before they even tried the door to get out. i would rather be eaten by a dragon than die in this tunnel. The fine ol bilbos finally like, come on, guys, buck up. That's the spirit. Let's keep going. So he leads them down the tunnel to smogs layernd, he's pretty confident in himself, cause he's already done this twice before. He kind of brags. And so far in the book, thorn has very much taken a back seat to everything and has been like, i'm important, so everyone else do things for me.