The Hobbit
(1937) by
J. R. R. Tolkien
- "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."
- ""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 farther 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 do you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
- This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel,
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
- One of Gollum's riddles for Bilbo, the answer is "time"
- Source: Chapter 5
- "'What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset."
- Bilbo's last "riddle" for Gollum
- Source: Chapter 5
- "To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful."
- On the sight of Smaug and his lair
- Source: Chapter 12
- "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
- Part of Thorin Oakenshield's last words to Bilbo Baggins
- Source: Chapter 18
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