The Hobbit Quotes

“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .
. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“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”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“The world isn't in your books and maps, it's out there.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“He thought much but said little.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“If more people valued home, above gold, this world would be a merrier place...”
― Thorin Oakenshield

“[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

“I am putting a mental jigsaw together of what a hobbit looks like, based on a composite of every customer I have ever sold a copy to.”
― Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller

“Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“It's a dangerous business going out of your front door...there's no telling where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Go backwards? No good at all. Go sideways? Impossible! Go forwards? Only thing to do, on we go!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Over hill and under hill”
― Jrr Tolkien

“Yes, it is difficult," I answered. "But not impossibly difficult, or I would not waste my time here. I would say absurdly difficult.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth

“I wish you would not always speak so confidently without knowledge.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth

“in this neighborhood heroes are scarce, or simply lot to be found. Swords in these parts are mostly blunt, and axes are used for trees, and shields as cradles or dish-covers; and dragons are comfortably far-off (and therefore legendary).”
― j.r.r tolkein

“My Precioussss!
-Gollum”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Go back? He thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible. Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“What has it got in its pocketses?" The sound came hissing louder and sharper, and as he looked towards it, to his alarm Bilbo now saw two small points of light peering at him. As suspicion grew in Gollum's mind, the light of his eyes burnt with a pale flame.”
― J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit (Part 1 and 2) Collection 2 Books Set

“Bless us and splash us, my precioussss!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“It had a perfectly round door like a porthole,
painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a
tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats — the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill — The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it — and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of
these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms
devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the
same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and
meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“You may indeed! I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen.'
'So I can well believe, ' said Smaug, 'but that is hardly your usual name.'
'I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.'
'Lovely titles!' sneered the dragon. 'But lucky numbers don't always come off.'
'I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“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”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song over hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“A black cloud hurried over the sky. Winter thunder on a wild wind rolled roaring up and rumbled in the Mountain, and lightning lit its peak.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Rings

“Loyalty, honor, and a willing heart. I can ask no more than that.”
― Thorin Oakenshield

“Está me desejando um bom dia, ou quer dizer que o dia está bom, não importa que eu queira ou não, ou quer dizer que você se sente bem neste dia, ou que este é um dia para estar bem?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I will not hide behind a wall of stone while others fight our battles for us!”
― Kili, The Hobbit

“May your shadow never grow less, or stealing would be too easy.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit