Important Quotations Explained
1. “Let's
have no more argument. I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought
to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar
he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him
than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.
You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.”
2. “It's
got to ask uss a question, my preciouss, yes, yess, yess. Jusst
one more question to guess, yes, yess.”
3. “Somehow
the killing of this giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark
. . . made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different
person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach,
as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.
'I will give you a name,' he said to it, 'and I shall call you Sting.'
4. “The
most that can be said for the dwarves is this: they intended to
pay Bilbo really handsomely for his services; they had brought him
to do a nasty job for them, and they did not mind the poor little
fellow doing it if he would; but they would all have done their
best to get him out of trouble, if he got into it. . . . There it
is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea
of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty
bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin
and Company, if you don't expect too much.”
5. “There
is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West.
Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us
valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a
merrier world.”
