Galadriel: Mithrandir... why the Halfling? Gandalf: ...I don't know. Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps...
Bilbo Baggins: Good morning. Gandalf: What do you mean? Do you mean to wish me a good morning or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not? Or perhaps you mean to say that you feel good on this particular morning. Or are you simp...
Bilbo Baggins: I have... I have never used a sword in my life. Gandalf: And I hope you never have to. But if you do, remember this: true courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
Gandalf: Well, why does it matter? He's back! Thorin Oakenshield: It matters. I want to know - why did you come back? 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...
Balin: It's just the usual; summary of out-of-pocket expenses, time required, remuneration, funeral arrangements, so forth. Bilbo Baggins: Funeral arrangements? [reads contract] Bilbo Baggins: Oh, up to but not exceeding one fourteenth total profit i...
Gandalf: I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.
Bofur: [after falling] Well, that could have been worse... [Great Goblin falls on the dwarves] Dwalin: Oh you've got to be joking!
Gollum: Is he lost? Bilbo Baggins: Yes, yes, and I want to get unlost... as soon as possible! Gollum: Oh! We knows! We knows safe paths for hobbitses! Safe paths in the dark... SHUT UP! Bilbo Baggins: I didn't say anything... Gollum: Wasn't talking t...
Thorin Oakenshield: [singing] Far over the misty mountains cold / To dungeons deep and caverns old Dwarves: [singing] The pines were roaring on the height / The winds were moaning in the night / The fire was red, it flame spread / The trees like torc...
Bilbo Baggins: Why don't we have a game of riddles and if I win, you show me the way out of here? Gollum: And if he loses? What then? Well if he loses precious then we eats it! If Baggins loses we eats it whole! Bilbo Baggins: Fair enough.
Radagast: I'll draw them off. Gandalf: These are Gundabad wargs. They will outrun you! Radagast: These are Rhosgobel rabbits. I'd like to see them try.
Gandalf: 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 ah...
Gandalf: The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there. Bilbo Baggins: I can't just go running off into the blue! I am a Baggins of Bag End! Gandalf: You are also a Took. Did you know that your Great-Great-Great-Great Uncle Bullroarer Took ...
Thorin Oakenshield: 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 emb...
Dori: [regarding a piece of lettuce] Try it. Just a mouthful. Ori: I don't like green food. Dwalin: Where's the meat? Ori: Have they got any chips?
[Bilbo attempts to sneak out of the cave while the company sleeps but is stopped by Bofur] Bofur: Where do you think you're going? Bilbo Baggins: Back to Rivendell. Bofur: No. No. You can't turn back now. You're part of the company. You're one of us....
Old Bilbo: 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.
Hobbit: You! Mr. Bilbo where're you off to? Bilbo Baggins: I'm already late. Hobbit: Late for what? Bilbo Baggins: I'm going on an adventure.
