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Poems and Tales of Middle-Earth:
(illustration by Alan Lee) |
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Bilbo's poem upon seeing his home-Hill:
"Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known."
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The Lord of the Rings
Prelude. The Hobbit
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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Back: Shire, Bag End.
This page contains many major plot spoilers so if you have not finished the novel,
you may want to stop reading and looking at these pictures now! |
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"In short Bilbo was 'Presumed Dead', and not everybody that say so was sorry to find
their presumption wrong. [...] The legal bother, indeed, lasted for years. It was quite a long time before Mr Baggins was
in fact admitted to be alive again. [...] Many of his silver spoons mysteriously disappeared and were never accounted
for. Personally he suspected the Sackville-Bagginses. On their side, they never admitted that the returned Baggins was
genuine, and they were not on friendly terms with Bilbo ever after. They really had wanted so much to live in his nice
hobbit-hole so very much." |
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"Indeed Bilbo found he had lost more than spoons - he had lost his reputation. It is
true that forever after he remained an elf-friend, and had the honours of dwarves, wizards, and all such folk as
ever passed that way; but he was no longer quite respectable. He was in fact held by all the hobbits of the neighbourhood
to be 'queer' - except by his nephews and nieces on the Took side, but even they were not encouraged in their
friendship by their elders.
I am sorry to say he did not mind. [...] His magic ring he kept a great secret, for he
chiefly used it when unpleasant callers came.
He took to writing poetry and visiting the elves." |
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" '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!"
'Thank goodness!' said Bilbo laughing." |
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