Quotes and Sayings about Hobbits & Harfoots

Such 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.

My friends… you bow to no one!

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.

In 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.

I 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".

One 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.

For the time would soon come when Hobbits would shape the fortunes of all.

Pippin: "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.

Far too eager and curious for a Hobbit. Most unnatural.

A Harfoot without manners is as like to get far in life as a square wheel.

And 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.

Elves 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.

Nobody goes off-trail! And nobody walks alone!

And yet, to have come so far, still bearing the Ring, the Hobbit has shown extraordinary resilience to its evil.

New Zealand... Hobbit's Australia.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

Where there is love, it is never truly dark.

If we didn't do everything we weren't supposed to, we'd hardly do anything at all.

Alone, it's just a journey. Now, adventures, they must be shared.

Betimes, our paths are laid before us by powers greater than our own. In those moments, it's our task to make our feet go where our hearts wish not to tread.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

So do all who live to see such times; but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

We do not say goodbye. We say namárië. It means more than simply "farewell". It means, "Go towards goodness."

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.

Night changes many thoguhts.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

You harm a hair on her foot, and I'll brain the lot of ya!

The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever, but the hearts of men are easily corrupted.

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Only you can show what you are. You choose by what you do.

Miss Brandyfoot is young. With as much hair still to grow on her toes as sense between her ears.

Ted: "You're scared of the seven dwarves?"
Robin: "Just of Doc. He's creepy... I mean, the guy went to medical school, what is he doing living with six coalminers."

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

Jesse: "Is New Zealand part of Australia?"
Jane: "New Zealand is New Zealand."
Jesse: "Right on. New Zealand. That's where they made 'Lord of the Rings'."