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After they caught Bilbo, the dwarves came looking for him. As they got around the fire the trolls popped a sack over their heads. It all started when they caught Bilbo. As they were questioning him, Balin came in, quite unsuspecting of anything. The trolls jumped him before he knew what's what. Then they hid behind the trees out of the light and waited for the other dwarves, who they promptly caught in a sack.

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Well, as the three trolls were debating how to cook their supper, Gandalf came along and kept them arguing and fighting about whether to stew, jelly, roast, or boil the dwarves until dawn. When the first rays of sunlight touched the trolls, they turned to stone.

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Which trolls? The cave trolls at the beginning wanted to eat Bilbo and Company. The stone tolls later on where playing ball during the thunderstorm when Bilbo and Co. were trying to pass through the Misty Mountains. Stone trolls aren't very good shots and were using huge boulders, making the passage very dangerous for 13 dwarves, a hobbit, and a man-sized wizard.

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Gandalf tricks them into ARGUING and staying up until dawn, which causes them to turn to stone

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They popped them into sacks. They were going to eat them, but argued over how to prepare them.

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They started to argue about the best way to cook the dwarves. They were egged on by Gandalf using a disguised voice and got caught by the sun.

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