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• Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation. — James Nesbitt
• Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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