Bilbo rescues the dwarves after they were captured by the Spiders. He cuts them down from the webs and distracts the spiders while the rest escape.
Page numbers are probably useless as there are so many different editions. However, if you check the chapter "Flies and Spiders" you might just find what you're looking for.
Chapter 8 is where the company is captured like flies by the spiders. All except Bilbo and Thorin, that is. Bilbo plays the part of the naughty little fly that the spiders cannot catch.
Spiders, trolls and wood-elves
Giant spiders, reportedly descended from Ungoliant, and relations of Shelob, the great spider in The Lord of the Rings. The Dwarves and Bilbo ran into them when they strayed off the forest road against the advice of Gandalf. The original account can be read in Chapter 8 of The Hobbit "Flies and Spiders." Or you can read a summary of the chapter at the related link.
the hobbit gets bumbed
The spiders.
Page numbers are probably useless as there are so many different editions. However, if you check the chapter "Flies and Spiders" you might just find what you're looking for.
Chapter 8 is where the company is captured like flies by the spiders. All except Bilbo and Thorin, that is. Bilbo plays the part of the naughty little fly that the spiders cannot catch.
Spiders, trolls and wood-elves
Giant spiders, reportedly descended from Ungoliant, and relations of Shelob, the great spider in The Lord of the Rings. The Dwarves and Bilbo ran into them when they strayed off the forest road against the advice of Gandalf. The original account can be read in Chapter 8 of The Hobbit "Flies and Spiders." Or you can read a summary of the chapter at the related link.
The book has nineteen chapters in it. The vary in length from about ten pages to as much as 30 pages. The first chapter, The Unexpected Party and Flies and Spiders are the longest.
the hobbit gets bumbed
I do not know of any spiders that do not eat flies.
Hang them up, keep them alive, and then eventually eat them.
red back spiders eat flies that come from their web
26 spiders
Full of flies, and other insects which spiders pray on.