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20 Cards in this Set
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What creature caused bilbo to realize the location of the doorway
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Thrush
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What was the danger in searching for the door to the dragons den
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Making to much noise
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How was bilbo able to talk to smaug without getting hurt
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He discribed himself using riddles and he flattered smaug
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Describe the master of Esgaroth
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Greedy he's a coward self centered and all he wants is power
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How did the thrush know about the dragons most vulnerable spot
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Bilbo told the dwarves that he saw and knows smaug weak spot and the thrush was ease dropping so he heard it
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How was bilbo not as influenced by the bewitchment of the hoard as the dwarves were
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The dwarves are greedy and bilbo Thought things through and knew that they had to kill smaug before they could have the treasure
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Why would bilbo take such risks when he had no use for the treasure
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He had a contract to live up to and the took side of his family took control of him
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What will thorin do when he finds out about the arkenstone
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He will be mad and he might try to hurt bilbo and get it and keep it for him self
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Alluding
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call attention to inderectly
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Promontory
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A point of high land
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Floundering
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Moving clumsily
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Squabbles
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A noisy quarrel about something petty or trivial
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Vagabond
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A person who wonders from place to place without a home or job
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Enmity
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The state or feeling of being activly opposed or hostile to someone or something
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Desolate
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Deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptyness
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Waning
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Have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated so that it appears to decrease in size
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Pondering
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Think about something carefully
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Marauding
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To raid
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Ghastly
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Causing great horror or fear
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Indefinitely
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For an unlimited or unspecified period of time
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