Bilbo Baggins Quotes

"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." ~ The Hobbit

"Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!" ~ The Hobbit

"Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" ~ The Hobbit

"This is the dreariest and dullest part of all this wretched, tiresome, uncomfortable adventure! I wish I was back in my hobbit-hole by my own warm fireside with the lamp shining!" ~ The Hobbit

"If you want food, and if you want to go on with this silly adventure - it's yours after all and not mine - you had better slap your arms and rub your legs and try and help me get the others out while there is a chance!" ~ The Hobbit

"I have absolutely no use for dragon-guarded treasures, and the whole lot could stay here for ever, if only I could wake up and find this beastly tunnel was my own front-hall at home!" ~ The Hobbit

"This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves." ~ The Hobbit

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ The Fellowship of the Ring

"I want to see mountains again, Gandalf - mountains; and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days." ~ The Fellowship of the Ring

"Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth" - by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it? and am I going to come back alive?" ~ The Hobbit

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"Don't be a fool, Bilbo Baggins!" he said to himself, "thinking of dragons and all that outlandish nonsense at your age!" ~ The Hobbit

"The dragon is still alive and in the halls under the Mountain then - or I imagine so from the smoke," said the hobbit. ~ The Hobbit

"I was not engaged to kill dragons, that is warrior's work, but to steal treasure." ~ The Hobbit

"Old Smaug is weary and asleep," he thought. "He can't see me and he won't hear me. Cheer up Bilbo!" ~ The Hobbit

"We came over hill and under hill, be wave and wind, for Revenge. Surely, O Smaug the unassessably wealthy, you must realize that your success has made you some bitter enemies?" ~ The Hobbit

"Truly there can nowhere be found the equal of Lord Smaug the Impenetrable. What magnificence to possess a waistcoat of fine diamonds!" ~ The Hobbit

"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" ~ The Hobbit

"We are armed, but what good has any armour ever been before against Smaug the Dreadful?" ~ The Hobbit

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Tolkien explained that Bilbo was a bit of a loner who had no real close friends and also kept his distance from his relatives. The only person he was especially fond of was his younger cousin, Frodo Baggins. Frodo was adopted by Bilbo after his parents died in a boating accident and Frodo warmly referred to Bilbo as 'uncle.'

"Are all these children yours? Gracious, you have been productive." From the Movie version only, 'The Fellowship of the Ring'

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you, half as well as you deserve." ~ The Fellowship of the Ring

"Thirdly and finally, he said, I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. He spoke this last word so loudly and suddenly that everyone sat up who still could. I regret to announce that - though, as I said, elventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!" ~ The Fellowship of the Ring

"I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holiday: I don't expect I shall return. In fact, I don't mean to, and I have made all the arrangements." ~ The Fellowship of the Ring

"Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread." ~ The Fellowship of the Ring

"In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell" ~ The Fellowship of the Ring

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Hobbits love their food and enjoy simple, home country food and drink like home-brewed beer and wine, soups, stews, roasted meats, lots of fruits like apples and blackberries which they grow and pick.

In 'The Hobbit' where the dwarves come to tea unexpectedly, Bilbo serves them seed cakes, beer, ale, porter, coffee, cakes, buttered scones, tea, red wine, raspberry jam, apple tart, mince pies, cheese, pork pies, salad, cold chicken, pickles, hard-boiled eggs and biscuits!

Thankfully for Bilbo, the Dwarves did the washing up!

"And 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. I'll cook beautifully for you, a perfectly beautiful breakfast for you, if only you won't have me for supper." ~ The Hobbit

"The summer is getting on down below," thought Bilbo, "and haymaking is going on and picnics. They will be harvesting and blackberrying, before we even begin to go down the other side at this rate." ~ The Hobbit

"Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" ~ The Hobbit

"I would give a good deal for the feel of a strong drink in my throat, and for a soft bed after a good supper!" ~ The Hobbit

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You can read the full leaving speech that Bilbo gave in the chapter 'A Long-Expected Party' which is in 'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien.

"Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!"

"... I am immensely fond of you all, and that eleventy-one years is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits."

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

"For it is, of course, also the birthday of my heir and nephew, Frodo. He comes of age and into his inheritance today."

"Together we score one hundred and forty-four. Your numbers were chosen to fit this remarkable total: One Gross, if I may use the expression."

"Thirdly and finally," he said, "I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT."

"I regret to announce that - though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!"

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