The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

“I will give you a name,” he said to it,“and I shall call you Sting.”After that he set out to explore. Theforest was grim and silent, but obviouslyhe had first of all to look for his friends,who were not likely to be very far off,unless they had been made prisoners bythe elves (or worse things). Bilbo felt thatit was unsafe to shout, and he stood a longwhile wondering in what direction thepath lay, and in what direction he shouldgo first to look for the dwarves.“O! why did we not remember Beorn’sadvice, and Gandalf’s!” he lamented.“What a mess we are in now! We! I onlywish it was we: it is horrible being allalone.”In the end he made as good a guess ashe could at the direction from which the