"Bilbo saw that the moment had come when……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins…
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When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party…
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Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.
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Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when…
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So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a…
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity…
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He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in…
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Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly…
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I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by…
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It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The…
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Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell…
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How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was…
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