Home > Work > The Hobbit
21 " 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 , The Hobbit
22 " They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest. "
23 " I'm going on an adventure "
24 " What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan and into the fire! "
25 " please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. "
26 " When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried. "
27 " This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. "
28 " I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us. They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded Dwarves. Hobbits have no beards. There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off. They are inclined to be fat in the stomach; they dress in bright colours (chiefly green and yellow); wear no... "
29 " Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by. "
30 " Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home. "
31 " He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler. "
32 " 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. "
33 " Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother. "
34 " Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds. "
35 " If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. "
36 " Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages. "
37 " If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. - Thorin "
38 " We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. "
39 " In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. "
40 " It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. "