J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit is one of my favorite books. This is a collection of interesting quotes from The Hobbit.
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"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say "out of the frying-pan into the fire" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 6 - Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire
Quoted: Bilbo
"Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!"J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Bilbo
"You are a fine person, Mr Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"J.R.R. Tolkien
"Thank goodness!" said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 19 - The Last Stage
Gandalf and Bilbo talking. Last sentence in the book.
'Bilbo Baggins, a bur..., a hobbit,' said poor Bilbo, shaking all over, and wondering how to make owl noises before they throttled him.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Bilbo caught by the trolls.
'Every worm has his weak spot', as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Bilbo
A big jug of coffee had just been set in the hearth, the seed-cakes were gone, and the dwarves were starting on a round of buttered scones, when there came - a loud knock.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit – Chapter 5 – Riddles in the dark
As they went on Bilbo looked from side to side for something to eat; but the blackberries were still only in flower, and of course there were no nuts, not even hawthorn-berries.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
At last Gandalf pushed away his plate and jug - he had eaten two whole loaves (with masses of butter and honey and clotted cream) and drunk at least a quart of mead - and he took out his pipe.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About honey and mead.
Behind him where the walls were nearest could dimly be seen coats of mail, helms and axes, swords and spears hanging; and there in rows stood great jars and vessels filled with a wealth that could not be guessed.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
About Smaug.
Bless us and splash us, my preciousss!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
Quoted: Gollum
But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. "Insect eyes," he thought, "not animal eyes, only they are much too big."J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo seeing eyes in the forest
Come along in, and have some tea!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Quoted: Bilbo
Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
About Gollum.
Each one of his folk was clad in a hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees, and his legs were covered with hose of a fine and flexible metal mesh, ...J.R.R. Tolkien
In battle they wielded heavy two-handed mattocks; but each of them had also a short broad sword at his side and a round shield slung at his back. Their beards were forked and plaited and thrust into their belts. Their caps were of iron and they were shod with iron, and their faces were grim.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 17 - The Clouds Burst
About the dwarves of Dain
Far over the misty mountains coldJ.R.R. Tolkien
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
Part of a song by the dwarves
Farewell! O Elvenking! ... Merry be the greenwood, while the world is yet young! And merry be all your folk!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 18 - The Return Journey
Quoted: Gandalf
Farewell! O Gandalf! ... May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 18 - The Return Journey
Quoted: The Elvenking
Goodness knows what the striking of matches and the smell of tobacco would have brought on him out of dark holes in that horrible place.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Hammers, axes, swords, daggers, pickaxes, tongs, and also instruments of torture, they make very well, or get other people to make to their design, prisoners and slaves that have to work till they die for want of air and light.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 4 - Over Hill and Under Hill
He beat the creature off with his hands - it was trying to poison him to keep him quiet, as small spiders do to flies - until he remembered his sword and drew it out.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About Bilbo.
He did not remember things very well, unless he put them down on his Engagement Tablet: like this: Gandalf Tea Wednesday.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
He keeps hives and hives of great fierce bees, and lives most on cream and honey.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking about Beorn
He laughed a great rolling laugh, put down his axe and came forward.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About Beorn.
He loved maps, as I have told you before; and he also liked runes and letters and cunning handwriting, though when he wrote himself it was a bit thin and spidery.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
He nibbled a bit of sorrel, and he drank from a small mountain-stream that crossed the path, and he ate three wild strawberries that he found on its bank, but it was not much good.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 3 - A Short Rest
About Elrond.
Hobbits have no beards. There is little or no magic about them, except the everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
I am just about to take tea; pray come and have some with me.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Quoted: Bilbo
I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror King under the Mountain!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 10 - A Warm Welcome
Quoted: Thorin
I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit – Chapter 10 – A warm welcome
If ever you are passing my way, don't wait to knock! Tea is at four; but any of you are welcome at any time!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 18 - The Return Journey
Quoted: Bilbo
Saying good-bye to the dwarves
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Thorin
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat; it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
This is how The Hobbit book begins.
In the end he poked his head above the roof of leaves, and then he found spiders all right. But they were only small ones of ordinary size, and they were after the butterflies.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
What Bilbo sees after climbing a tree
Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
Quoted: Gollum
It brought thousands of dark-grey and black moths, some nearly as big as your hand, flapping and whirring round their ears.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About the effect of lighting watch-fires
It was after tea-time; it was pouring with rain, and had been all day; his hood was dripping into his eyes, his cloak was full of water; the pony was tired and stumbled on stones; the others were too grumpy to talk.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
It was as if a globe had been filled with moonlight and hung before them in a net woven of the glint of frosty stars.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 16 - A Thief in the Night
About the Arkenstone.
Just before tea-time there came a tremendous ring on the front-door bell, and then he remembered! He rushed and put on the kettle, and put out another cup and saucer, and an extra cake or two, and ran to the door.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Little bunny is getting nice and fat again on bread and honey.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Beorn
Talking about Bilbo
Maddened and angry they were leaping and howling round the trunks, and cursing the dwarves in their horrible language, with their tongues hanging out, and their eyes shining as red and fierce as the flames.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 6 - Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire
About the wargs
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walksJ.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking to the Eagles
My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Smaug
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit
Not far away were dreary hills, rising higher and higher, dark with trees. On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had been built by wicked people.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Near the trolls.
Nothing moved in the waste, save the vapour and the water, and every now and again a black and ominous crow. The only sound was the sound of the stony water, and every now and again the harsh croak of a bird. Balin shuddered.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 11 - On the Doorstep
About the Desolation of the Dragon.
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Now scuttle off, and come back quick, if all is well. If not, come back if you can! It you can't, hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl, and we will do what we can.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Quoted: Thorin
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