So you are the one they call Oakenshield.

Tell me...

...why is Azog...

...the Defiler hunting you?

You know of Azog?

How?

My people were the first to live
in the mountains...

...before the Orcs came down
from the North.

The Defiler killed most of my family.

But some he...

...enslaved.

Not for work, you understand...

...but for sport.

Caging skin-changers...

...and torturing them
seemed to amuse him.

BILBO:
There are others like you?

Once there were many.

And now?

Now there is only one.

You need to reach...

...the mountain before
the last days of autumn.

Before Durin's Day falls.

Yes.

You are running out of time.

Which is why we must
go through Mirkwood.

A darkness lies upon that forest.

Fell things creep beneath those trees.

I would not venture there...

...except in great need.

We will take the Elven Road.

That path is still safe.

BEORN:
"Safe"?

The Wood Elves of Mirkwood...

...are not like their kin.

They're less wise...

...and more dangerous.

But it matters not.

What do you mean?

These lands are crawling with Orcs.

Their numbers are growing.

And you are on foot.

You will never reach...

...the forest alive.

I don't like Dwarves.

They're greedy...

...and blind.

Blind to the lives of those they deem...

...lesser than their own.

But Orcs I hate more.

What do you need?