The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. Profoundly inspirational Hobbit quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Hobbit Quotes
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. Narrator
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
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. Thorin
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. 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 hold, and that means comfort. Narrator
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. J.R.R. Tolkien
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. Thorin
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J.R.R. Tolkien
Now is the time for Bilbo to perform the service for which he was included in our company; now is the time for him to earn his reward. Thorin
Where there’s life there’s hope. J.R.R. Tolkien
Trolls simply detest the sight of dwarves uncooked. Narrator
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
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 that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway. Narrator
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
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things. Narrator
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon. J.R.R. Tolkien
Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable? Gollum
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
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key hole. Elrond
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go. J.R.R. Tolkien
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar. Smaug
It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. J.R.R. Tolkien
And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation? Narrator
I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. J.R.R. Tolkien
The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened. Narrator
Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye! J.R.R. Tolkien
It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond. Narrator
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. J.R.R. Tolkien
My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws pears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death! Smaug
That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered. J.R.R. Tolkien
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Thorin
Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves uncooked. J.R.R. Tolkien
Every worm has his weak spot. Bilbo Baggins
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. J.R.R. Tolkien
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending! Bilbo Baggins
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves! he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say out of the frying pan into the fire in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. J.R.R. Tolkien
Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin! Bilbo Baggins
You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. J.R.R. Tolkien
This hobbit was a very well to do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighborhood of The Hill for time out of mind. Narrator
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took’s great grand uncle Bullroarer, who was so huge for a hobbit that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment. J.R.R. Tolkien
This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. Narrator
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. J.R.R. Tolkien
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. Narrator
My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death! J.R.R. Tolkien
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities. Bilbo Baggins
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things. J.R.R. Tolkien
I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am barrel rider. Bilbo Baggins
If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J.R.R. Tolkien
Go back. Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go! So up he got and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter. Bilbo Baggins
Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit hole? said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur’s back. J.R.R. Tolkien
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. Bilbo Baggins
I may be a burglar but I’m an honest one, I hope, more or less. J.R.R. Tolkien
I come from under hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue finder, the web cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. Bilbo Baggins
We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. J.R.R. Tolkien
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. Gandalf
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. J.R.R. Tolkien
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are all over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go. Gandalf
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. J.R.R. Tolkien
What a lot of things you do use Good morning for! Now you mean that you want to get rid of me and that it won’t be good till I move off. Gandalf
He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment. J.R.R. Tolkien
Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner. Narrator
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
Mr. Baggins has more about him than you guess. Gandalf
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. J.R.R. Tolkien
I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. Gandalf
They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody. J.R.R. Tolkien
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near him. Gandalf
