Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you.
Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
J.R.R. Tolkien in The HobbitI am personally immensely amused by Hobbits as such, and can contemplate them eating and making their rather fatuous remarks indefinitely; but I find that is not the case with even my most devoted "fans".
J.R.R. TolkienOne thing we can do better than any creature in all Middle-earth. We stay true to each other, with our hearts even bigger than our feet.
Largo Brandyfoot in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 1 Episode 7For the time would soon come when Hobbits would shape the fortunes of all.
Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingSuch is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
Small Things, HandsElrond in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingMy friends… you bow to no one!
Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingPippin: "What about breakfast?"
Aragorn: "You've already had it."
Pippin: "We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast."
Merry: "I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip."
Pippin: "What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper?"
Life in the wide world goes on much as it has this past age. Full of its own comings and goings. Scarcely even aware of the existence of the Hobbits. For which I am very thankful.
Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingFar too eager and curious for a Hobbit. Most unnatural.
Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, to FrodoA Harfoot without manners is as like to get far in life as a square wheel.
Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 1 Episode 2And now, before we begin our next journey, we remember those from prior migrations, who fell behind. And should any Harfoot fall behind this migration, they likewise will be carried with us in our hearts and in our memories.
Sadoc Burrows in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 1 Episode 3Elves have forests to protect. Dwarves their mines. Men their fields of grain. Even trees have to worry about the soil beneath their roots. But we Harfoots have each other. We're safe.
Dwarfs, ElvesMarigold Brandyfoot in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 1Nobody goes off-trail! And nobody walks alone!
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 1 Episode 8And yet, to have come so far, still bearing the Ring, the Hobbit has shown extraordinary resilience to its evil.
Elrond in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingHobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
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