Tim Jacobs

“Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“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, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Who is it?” Lucy whispered furiously. “Is it the cannibals?”
“I don’t know,” Linus said. “Could be. And while I might be a complete meal, they could be full after consuming Arthur and only interested in something a little more . . . snack-sized.”
Talia gasped. “But . . . but I’m snack-sized.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea