Greetings, kindred spirits, and seekers of the Shire’s enduring wisdom!
If you’re drawn to the cozy hearths, rolling hills, and hearty laughter of hobbits, you’re about to embark on a delightful journey through the enchanting realm of Hobbit quotes.
You’ve arrived at a haven of hobbitic reflections, whether you’re a devoted follower of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit Quotes, a wanderer eager to explore the essence of hobbit life, or someone in need of a touch of whimsy and insight.
In the pages ahead, we’ll unravel the magic woven into the words of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Shire’s inhabitants—words that echo with timeless themes of courage, friendship, and the simple joys of a well-tended garden.
Hobbit Quotes
“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and 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 us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“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.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The wise speak only of what they know.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The world was fair, the mountains tall, in Elder Days before the fall.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I have claimed that goblins are cruel, unjust, and treacherous. I have proved my point. – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I don’t like half of you half as well as you deserve.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The wise speak only of what they know.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I have found it is the small things, every day deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay… simple acts of kindness and love.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“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.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Adventure Hobbit Quotes
“I’m going on an adventure!”
“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.”
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
“Adventure is not all pony rides in May-sunshine.”
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can.”
“I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”
“Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
“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.”
“May your beard grow ever longer.”
“The wise speak only of what they know.”
“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
“May the hair on your toes never fall out!”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
“I have found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
“Little by little, one travels far.”
“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.”
“I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.”
“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”
“Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.”
Best Hobbit Quotes
“When you have got things really upset, and mixed up, and nothing seems to be in the right place, then it is time to go to bed and sleep it off.”
“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.”
“I wish you all the luck in the world, or you won’t find your luck.”
“He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary.”
“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”
“I have claimed that many are alive who are dead. And many are dead who are alive.”
“The stars are strange, and this is a strange and wondrous night!”
“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.”
“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
“You can never be too careful.”
“I have found that it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.”
“Roads go ever ever on, over rock and under tree, by caves where never sun has shone, by streams that never find the sea.”
“There are moments that you’ll never forget, and all your life you’ll try and remember, but you can never go back.”
“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.”
“You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”
“The wise speak only of what they know.”
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
“If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.”
“It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit.”
“It is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this Ring? Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe. Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy. Let us use it against him!”
“The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can.”
Concerning Hobbits Quotes
“They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded Dwarves.”
“This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins.”
“The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected.”
“This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.”
“The mother of this hobbit – of Bilbo Baggins, that is – was the fabulous Belladonna Took, one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took, head of the hobbits who lived across The Water, the small river that ran at the foot of The Hill.”
“They were, in fact, sheltered, but they had ceased to remember it.”
“Being fond of visitors, the Took family, though they had no dislike of boating, were even more fond of bathing.”
“Going on from there was the chief way to the East, and the favourite way of the hobbits.”
“The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected.”
“This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.”
“And I suppose they are made that way: firm and stuffed with wisdom.”
“The flowers in the gardens of the hobbits had now begun to show their faces.”
“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
“For your good health; and may your hair never fall out!”
“He liked gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; he smoked pipes, and you could see the smoke rings a good way off.”
“The evening was still and the white crescent of the waxing moon shone above the western woods between the arms of the Mountain.”
“No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage.”
“And never the same way twice, as the saying has it.”
“It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle.”
“All the ground floor was a wash with flowers, like a huge nosegay: and various fragrances were about, so that a visitor might live a good while just by identifying the various smells: they were quite a feature of the Hill, and no one denied they were very pleasant.”
“The flowers in the gardens of the hobbits had now begun to show their faces.”
“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
“The flowers in the gardens of the hobbits had now begun to show their faces.”
“It is probable that Bilbo, her only son, although he looked and behaved exactly like a second edition of his solid and comfortable father, got something a bit queer in his make-up from the Took side, something that only waited for a chance to come out.”
“Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance and unexpected return.”
“He was richer than many a king, and more prodigal than most of the kings of his time.”
“Now the old hobbit could see him standing, hand on heart, laughing, as he looked up at the grey and silver umbrellas.”
“Old Took’s great-granduncle Bullroarer, as they called him, was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse.”
“Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.”
Short Hobbit Quotes
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
“Good morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it.
“I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!”
“The road goes ever on and on.”
“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.”
“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.”
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
“Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.”
“I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.”
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
“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.”
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”
“The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft 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.”
“The world was all grown strange. The sunrise was redder than it had been.”
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.”
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
Funny Hobbit Quotes
“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.”
“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.”
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
“Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!”
“I’m not at home in my own home, and I do not particularly like what I have got to eat, and would gladly be rid of it, but as I have not yet arranged my affairs I have to put up with it.”
“I have heard that it is no use your applying if your quest is a private one. And you are right for I am not going on any private business. I might take up a job at messing things up, but that is not my usual line.”
“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 have claimed that adventure was itself the necessary predicate to a satisfactory life, so how could it be that I had been unable to convert the substance of my own life into adventure?”
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!”
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
“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.”
“I have an odd feeling about this, and that makes me feel positively sure that something is going to happen.”
“Bilbo had never seen the sea before — except from maps; and the Hobbit is rather afraid of the sea, if you want to know.”
“I have absolutely no idea what any of you are talking about. I am here because Gandalf asked me to be.”
“May the hair on your toes never fall out!”
“I like half of you twice as much as I should, and you like less than half of me half as well as I deserve.”
“You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years, they can still surprise you at a pinch.”
“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.”
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
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