“I declare the Mountain besieged. You shall not depart from it, until you call on your side for a truce and a parley. We will bear no weapons against you, but we leave you to your gold. You may eat that, if you will!”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“Put on a few eggs, there’s a good fellow!” Gandalf called after him, as the hobbit stumped off to the pantries. “And just bring out the cold chicken and”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“Thorin, of course, was really the grandson of the King under the Mountain, and there is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own.”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.”
― The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
“It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking;”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
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