Pippin Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick"…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“The morning came, pale and clammy. Frodo woke up first, and found that a tree-root had made a hole in his back, and that…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. "There never was much hope," he answered. "Just a fool's hope, as I have been told.”

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“I just can't get the poetry of the trees," he said.”

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