Great Hobbit Quotes

• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Dirty, Mean, Smell

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Experience, Looks

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, Long, Gold

  J. R. R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: Illustrated by Alan Lee”, p.36, HarperCollins UK

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• There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Want, Ifs

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. “What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Mean, Eyebrows

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Comfort, Holes

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• Over hill and under hill

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hills, Middle Earth, Misty Mountains

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Share, Difficult

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Movie Love, Share

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Good Morning, Mean, Feel Good

  J. R. R. Tolkien (2011). “The Hobbit (Enhanced Edition)”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Revenge, Useless, Lord Of The Ring

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.684, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Family, Party, Book

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dragons, Planning Ahead, Doe

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1985). “The Hobbit”

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• For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Fellowship, Death Penalty

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Holes, Middle Earth

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Thinking, Use

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Darkness, Shadow, World

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Dwarves, Differences

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

  Peter Jackson

  Kindness, Believe, Small Acts

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• Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Travel, Walking Sticks, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Nature, World

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Death, Wish, Fellowship

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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