It’s Hobbit Day, aka Frodo and Bilbo Baggins’ birthday! To celebrate, we’ve got the wittiest, wisest, and best Frodo and Bilbo quotes from all four books.
Best Frodo and Bilbo quotes:
- “We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them.”
– Bilbo, The Hobbit, An Unexpected Party - Frodo: “‘Frodo wouldn’t have got far without Sam, would he, dad?'”
Sam: “Now, Mr. Frodo, you shouldn’t make fun. I was serious.”
Frodo: “So was I.”
– Frodo and Sam, The Two Towers, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol - “Victory after all, I suppose! Well, it seems a very gloomy business.”
– Bilbo, The Hobbit, The Return Journey - “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
– Frodo, The Return of the King, Mount Doom - “Farewell, King under the Mountain! This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils – that has been more than any Baggins deserves.”
– Bilbo, The Hobbit, The Return Journey - “Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones.”
– Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring, A Short Cut to Mushrooms - “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.”
– Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long Expected Party - “There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?”
– Frodo, The Return of the King, Homeward Bound - “Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!”
– Bilbo to himself, The Hobbit, Inside Information - “Yes, you have seen a thing or two since you last peeped out of a looking-glass.”
– Frodo to himself, The Fellowship of the Ring, Many Meetings - “Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!”
– Bilbo, The Hobbit, Roast Mutton - “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.”
– Frodo, The Return of the King, The Scouring of the Shire - “‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. ‘You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to.'”
– Frodo quoting Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring, Three is Company - “I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.”
– Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Council of Elrond - “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!”
– Bilbo, The Hobbit, The Return Journey - “I can manage it. I must.”
– Frodo, The Return of the King, Mount Doom - “Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not today. Good morning! But please come to tea – any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Come tomorrow! Good-bye!”
– Bilbo, The Hobbit, An Unexpected Party - “It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
– Frodo, The Return of the King, The Grey Havens - “All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”
– Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring, Strider - “I should like to leave the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don’t feel like that now. 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.”
– Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Shadow of the Past
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