[ It probably won't matter much to Thranduil that any responsibility for Legolas being involved here should sit squarely on his own shoulders, but officially he won't be able to do much about it. Now that Tauriel is not a sharp point of contention between them, things have been somewhat easier, even if there are matters on which they will never agree. This will undoubtedly be one of those things.
Legolas knows that Thorin will go with or without him, and he honestly has too much respect for the dwarven king - and less enthusiasm about who might be in a position to succeed him - to simply stand aside and let him go running into such things blindly. He does hope that this won't result in the worst case scenario, but while Legolas has not been to Dol Goldur himself, he knows all too much about that evil place.
Bilbo's nervousness does not go unnoticed, and Legolas is far too keen to miss a lie. Or, at the very least, a very definite obfuscation of the truth, but he has no idea what Bilbo might be trying to hide, or why. The guards at the barrels might have been embarrassingly drunk, but Bilbo would have gotten past several more on the way in that had been perfectly sober, and much more vigilant. There's a slight furrow to his brows as he takes that in, but then he seems to shrug it off. There's no point in dwelling on it, if Bilbo is that determined to not speak of it.
There are other, more relevant things that he can ask about, after all. ]
We will have need of all the luck we can gather today. Do you know anything about where we're going?
[ He's not even certain that Thorin grasps the entirety of it. Not that he would expect any amount of difference, but he has to wonder if anyone here has any true idea of what sort of place they're walking into. If they thought that the dark and winding paths that they tread before were treacherous...
He does hope that they will be able to escape notice for just long enough, but it seems foolish to count on that. ]
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Legolas knows that Thorin will go with or without him, and he honestly has too much respect for the dwarven king - and less enthusiasm about who might be in a position to succeed him - to simply stand aside and let him go running into such things blindly. He does hope that this won't result in the worst case scenario, but while Legolas has not been to Dol Goldur himself, he knows all too much about that evil place.
Bilbo's nervousness does not go unnoticed, and Legolas is far too keen to miss a lie. Or, at the very least, a very definite obfuscation of the truth, but he has no idea what Bilbo might be trying to hide, or why. The guards at the barrels might have been embarrassingly drunk, but Bilbo would have gotten past several more on the way in that had been perfectly sober, and much more vigilant. There's a slight furrow to his brows as he takes that in, but then he seems to shrug it off. There's no point in dwelling on it, if Bilbo is that determined to not speak of it.
There are other, more relevant things that he can ask about, after all. ]
We will have need of all the luck we can gather today. Do you know anything about where we're going?
[ He's not even certain that Thorin grasps the entirety of it. Not that he would expect any amount of difference, but he has to wonder if anyone here has any true idea of what sort of place they're walking into. If they thought that the dark and winding paths that they tread before were treacherous...
He does hope that they will be able to escape notice for just long enough, but it seems foolish to count on that. ]