Not to mention Kili, Thorin and Bilbo as well and Benedict Cumberbatch's voice. We're all just going to sit there hyperventilating from too much pretty.

Wiki says they live in "boreal and mixed deciduous forests of the Northern hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climates" so I suppose they do. And we now know what kind of habitat Mirkwood is, beyond 'damn scary'.

Maybe they take the lids off once they're in the river? They don't seem to be being rafted... And yeah, I think the elves would notice a bunch of dwarven prisoners in their barrels no matter how drunk they were.

Rereading it, he just seems to pick up another name every other chapter or so. Hell, he's got two in the first chapter he's in!

I wish they'd turned out as extras that couldn't be fit into The Silmarillion rather than the jumble that they actually are. I mean, in a sense it's very interesting to see which bits were edited from what and how they differ, but actually trying to read them is...yeah. Wiki is your (and my) friend.

Thank you! I think I'll definitely be needing those cheers. :)