Maleficent reached her goal after all; they both accepted her as an adoptive parent. But with Thorin around, this new addition will become complicated. She kept the twins within her grasp, and she smiled to herself for them both to accept her. "Thank you", she whispered to them. "I would have doubted me too. I'm a Hobbit, not a warrior, or a burglar", she heard Bilbo say near them.