Matthew White > Matthew's Quotes

“It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Put on a few eggs, there’s a good fellow!” Gandalf called after him, as the hobbit stumped off to the pantries. “And just bring out the cold chicken and”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Gandalf looked at him. My dear Bilbo! he said. Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“His only comfort was he couldn’t be mistaken for a dwarf, as he had no beard.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I declare the Mountain besieged. You shall not depart from it, until you call on your side for a truce and a parley. We will bear no weapons against you, but we leave you to your gold. You may eat that, if you will!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“May your shadow never grow less (or stealing would be too easy)!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Thorin, of course, was really the grandson of the King under the Mountain, and there is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: or There and Back Again