1. He approaches a clearing in the woods, Bilbo sees three huge trolls sitting around a fire, eating mutton
2. The trolls threw sacks over each dwarf that approached.
3. Gandalf saved them by throwing his voice to mislead the dwarves and keep the trolls arguing until the morning.
4. They found weapons and took them.
And still between each awful pause,
From the high vault an answer draws,
In varied tone, prolonged and high,
Answer:
I believe It establishes miscommunication as a central theme for the passage.
Explanation:
Context clues are words that are used to help understand and define certain difficult words used in an article or story. Types of context clues include: Explanation, Restatement, Personal Experience, and Derivation or Inference.