What do the group fight in Mirkwood The Hobbit?

The Ambush of Mirkwood is a skirmish between Elves, Dwarves and Orcs in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

How did the wood-elves capture the dwarves?

Trying to find their way out of the forest of Mirkwood, the dwarves are captured by armed Wood-elves; Bilbo avoids capture because he is wearing the ring. Invisible, he follows the dwarves, who are taken by the elves across a bridge to the cave palace of the Elvenking.

What happened in Mirkwood forest in The Hobbit?

One of the Dwarves, the fat Bombur, falls into the Enchanted River and has to be carried, unconscious, for the following days. Losing the Elf-path, the party becomes lost in the forest and is captured by giant spiders. They escape, only to be taken prisoner by King Thranduil’s Wood-Elves.

What happened to the Mirkwood elves in Lord of the Rings?

After the destruction of Dol Guldur and the cleansing of Mirkwood, Thranduil and the Wood-Elves remained untroubled for many years. After the fall of Sauron, around Fo. A. 20, Legolas brought south Elves out of Greenwood, and they dwelt in Ithilien, and it became once again the fairest country in all the westlands.

Why does the elven King imprison the dwarves?

The dwarves were imprisoned in the Elvenking’s palace in separate cells because they were trespassing the elves’ feasts. Bilbo wasn’t imprisoned because he put on his ring.

Are the Mirkwood elves evil?

We are told that they “are not wicked folk”, but they are “more dangerous and less wise” than the High Elves of the West. They go out of their way to avoid helping Bilbo and the Dwarves. They capture the Dwarves and treat them relatively well, but still keep them in jail for weeks.

Are the Mirkwood Elves evil?

How did Greenwood become Mirkwood?

T.A. 2500), Dol Guldur controlled the Balchoth, a tribe of Easterlings who dwelt east of Mirkwood; often they made raids through the forest up to the Vales of Anduin, until they were all but deserted, until defeated. Sauron’s arrival caused a darkening of Greenwood, and at this point it became known as Mirkwood.