The best Quotes and Sayings about Hobbits & Harfoots

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.

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!

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.