Top 10 Most Famous ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes (BEST)
“You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey’s end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.”
Gandalf
“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 above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
Thorin
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole full of worms and oozy smells. This was a hobbit-hole and that means good food, a warm hearth, and all the comforts of home.”
Bilbo Baggins
“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.”
Narrator
5 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes About Adventure (JOURNEY)
“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! I can’t think what anybody sees in them.”
Bilbo Baggins
“Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies just because you helped them come about. You don’t really suppose do you that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck? Just for your sole benefit? You’re a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I’m quite fond of you. But you are really just a little fellow, in a wide world after all.”
Gandalf
2 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes About Having Visitors
4 The Hobbit’ Quotes About Evil & Death
21 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by Bilbo Baggins
“My dear Frodo, you asked me once if I had told you everything there was to know about my adventures. And while I can honestly say I have told you the truth, I may not have told you all of it. I am old now Frodo. I’m not the same hobbit I once was. I think it is time for you to know what really happened.”
Bilbo Baggins
“It began long ago in a land far away to the East. The like of which you will not find in the world today. There was the city of Dale. Its markets known far and wide, full of the bounties of vine and vale, peaceful and prosperous. For this city lay before the doors of the greatest kingdom in Middle-Earth, Erebor. Stronghold of Thror, king under the mountain. The mightiest of the dwarf lords. Thror ruled with utter surety, never doubting his house would endure, for his line lay secure in the lives of his son and grandson.”
Bilbo Baggins
“Ah, Frodo. Erebor. Built deep within the mountain itself, the beauty of this fortress city was legend. Its wealth lay in the earth, in precious gems hewn from rock, and in great seams of gold running like rivers through stone. The skill of the dwarves was unequaled. Fashioning objects of great beauty, out of diamond, emerald, ruby and sapphire. Every they delved deeper down into the dark, and that is where they found it. The heart of the mountain, the Arkenstone. Thror named it the king’s jewel. He took it as a sign, a sign that his right to rule was divine. All would pay homage to him. Even the great Elven king, Thranduil. But the years of peace and plenty were not to last. Slowly the days turned sour, and the watchful nights closed in.”
Bilbo Baggins
“Robbed of their homeland, the dwarves of Erebor wandered the wilderness. The once mighty people brought low. The young dwarf prince took work where he could find it, laboring in the villages of men. But always, he remembered the mountain smoke beneath the moon, the trees like torches blazing bright, where he had seen dragon fire in the sky, and a city turn to ash. And he never forgave, and he never forgot.”
Bilbo Baggins
“That, my dear Frodo, is where I come in. For quite by chance, and the will of wizard, fate decided I would become part of this tale. It began, well, it began as you might expect. In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole full of worms and oozy smells. This was a hobbit hole. And that means good food, a warm hearth, and all the comforts of home.”
Bilbo Baggins
“They pillaged the pantry. I’m not even going to tell you what they’ve done to the bathroom, they all but destroyed the plumbing. I don’t understand; what are they doing in my house?”
Bilbo Baggins
“Go on then. You don’t want to be late. He doesn’t approve being late. Not that I ever was. In those days, I was always on time. I was entirely respectable, and nothing unexpected – ever happened.”
Bilbo Baggins
“Look, I know you doubt me, I know you always have. And you’re right, I often think of Bag End. I miss my books. And my armchair. And my garden. See, that’s where I belong. That’s home. And that’s why I came back, cause you don’t have one … a home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.”
Bilbo Baggins
14 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by Gandalf
“Well, he could! In the Battle of Greenfields, he charged the Goblin ranks. He swung his club so hard it knocked the Goblin King’s head cleaned off and it sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole. And thus the battle was won and the game of golf invented at the same time.”
Gandalf
9 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by Thorin
“You! What were you doing? You nearly got yourself killed! Did I not say that you would be a burden, that you would not survive in the wild and that you have no place amongst us? I’ve never been so wrong in all my life.”
Thorin
“Rumors have begun to spread, The dragon Smaug has not been seen in many years… Perhaps the vast wealth of our people lies unprotected… perhaps it is time to take back Erebor!”
Thorin
2 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by The Narrator
“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 are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling, anyway.”
Narrator
2 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by Radagast
4 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by Great Goblin
“Bones will be shattered, necks will be wrung! You’ll be beaten and battered, from racks you’ll be hung! You will die down here and never be found, down in the deep of Goblin Town!”
Great Goblin
3 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by William Troll
2 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by Galadriel
“The riddle of the Morgul Blade must be answered. Something moves in the shadows unseen, hidden from our sight. It will not show itself. Not yet. But every day it grows in strength.”
Galadriel
5 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes by Gollum
10 ‘The Hobbit’ Quotes that Will Make You Think
“Don’t mind him, laddie. Thorin has more cause than most to hate Orcs. After the dragon took the Lonely Mountain, King Thror tried to reclaim the ancient dwarf kingdom of Moria… but our enemy had got there first. Moria had been taken by legions of Orcs, led by the most vile of all their race, Azog the Defiler. The giant Gundabad Orc had sworn to wipe out the line of Durin. He began by beheading the King. Thrain, Thorin’s father, was driven mad by grief. He went missing, taken prisoner or killed; we did not know. We were leaderless, defeat and death were upon us. That is when I saw him; the young dwarf prince facing down the Pale Orc. He stood alone against this terrible foe, his armor rent, wielding nothing but an oaken branch as a shield… Azog the Defiler learned that day that the line of Durin would not be so easily broken. Our forces rallied and drove the Orcs back; our enemy had been defeated… but there was no feast or songs that night, for our dead were beyond the count of grief. We few had survived and I thought to myself then ‘There is one I could follow. There is one I could call King’.”
Balin
“These runes were written on a Midsummer’s Eve by the light of a crescent moon nearly 200 years ago. It would seem you were meant to come to Rivendell. Fate is with you, Thorin Oakenshield. The same moon shines upon us tonight.”
Elrond
(MUST READ) The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)
Also read:
- Top 59 Most Inspiring ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes (MOVIE)
- Top 100 ‘Stranger Things’ Quotes from the TV Series (NETFLIX)
- 58 ‘Jurassic Park’ Quotes Worth Remembering (DINOSAUR)
- 62 Inspirational Bowling Quotes & Sayings (STRIKE)
- 88 Motivational Quotes on Gardening & Life (PLANTS)
- Top 68 Brianna Wiest Quotes About Life (LET GO)
- 81 Inspirational Mental Health Quotes (STAY POSITIVE)
- 68 Most Famous Quotes About New York City (NYC)