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Elves's welcome song:
"O! What are you doing,
And where are you going?
Your ponies need shoeing!
The river is flowing!
O! tra-la-lalally
here down in the valley!
O! What are you seeking,
And where are you making?
The faggots are reeking,
The bannocks are baking!
O! tri-li-lilolly
the valley is jolly,
ha!ha!
O! Where are you going
With beards all a-wagging?
No knowing, no knowing
What brings Mister Baggins
And Balin and Dwalin
down into the valley,
in June
ha!ha!
O! Will you be staying,
Or will you be flying?
Your ponies are straying!
The daylight is dying!
To fly would be folly,
To stay would be jolly
And listen and hark
Till the end of the dark
to our tune
ha!ha!"
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The Lord of the Rings
Prelude. The Hobbit
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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| The Journey, the Lone-lands. |
" 'What I say,' said Bilbo gasping. 'And please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am
a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. I'll cook beautifully for you, a perfectly
beautiful breakfast for you, if only you won't have me for supper.' " (Bilbo)
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(illustration by Alan Lee)
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"Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked)." |
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" 'Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
'To look ahead,' said he.
'And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
'Looking behind,' said he. " |
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