In Chapter 7, Beorn, the skin-changer and farmer, supplies Bilbo and the dwarves with lots of useful provisions and just as useful, if not more useful advice and friendship. First of all he supplies them with food, as a reward for the story they tell him about how they killed the Great Goblin. Beorn doesn't like goblins either. After he verifies that their story is true, he then offers to supply them with "ponies for each of them, and a horse for Gandalf." He also offers to give them enough food to "last them for weeks," "skins for carrying water" and "some bows and arrows."
Beorn also supplies Bilbo and the dwarves with advice about the route they will take. He tells them where they can find nuts, warns them about "dark, queer, and savage" creatures, and also about an "enchanted" stream that they should not drink from or bathe in. Beorn also tells Bilbo and the dwarves not, under any circumstances, to stray from the path he has described. And, finally, he tells them that his house will always be open to them, should they find themselves passing by it again.
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