Цитаты из книги The Hobbit

Гэндальф, кстати сказать, тоже сидел рядышком на земле, погруженный в глубокое раздумье, очевидно собираясь устроить под конец какой-то последний волшебный взрыв.

Так пришел конец Смогу и Эсгароту. Но Бэрд уцелел.

Эльфы связали Торина ремнями и заперли в одну из самых дальних темниц с крепкой деревянной дверью. Ему дали вдоволь еды и питья, пусть и не очень изысканных, — ведь лесные эльфы не гоблины, и даже со злейшими врагами они обращались вполне сносно. Только к гигантским паукам были беспощадны.

Убить гигантского паука в темноте, в одиночку, без помощи волшебника, гномов или кого бы то ни было — это, я вам скажу, было неслыханное событие в жизни мистера Бэггинса.

— Если непременно желаете знать, его имя Беорн. Он меняет шкуры. — Как! Меховщик? Который делает из кролика котика, когда не удается превратить его в белку? — спросил Бильбо.

“Well, are you alive or are you dead?” asked Bilbo quite crossly. Perhaps he had forgotten that he had had at least one good meal more than the dwarves, and also the use of his arms and legs, not to speak of a greater allowance of air. “Are you still in prison, or are you free? If you want food, and if you want to go on with this silly adventure—it’s yours after all and not mine—you had better slap your arms and rub your legs and try and help me get the others out while there is a chance!”

Бильбо потом никак не мог вспомнить, каким образом очутился на улице — без шапки, без трости, без денег, без всех тех вещей, которые привык брать с собой, выходя из дому. Оставив второй завтрак недоеденным и посуду после себя невымытой, он сунул Гэндальфу ключи от дома и побежал со всех своих мохнатых ног по улочке мимо большой мельницы, через мост и еще с милю По Ту Сторону Реки.

The treasure is likely to be your death, though the dragon is no more.

I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I am chosen for the lucky number.

There is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own.

"Farewell!" eagles cried, "wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!"

"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks", answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

"Don't pinch!" said his eagle. "You need not be frightened like a rabbit, even if you look rather like one. It is a fair morning with little wind. What is finer than flying?" Bilbo would have liked to say: "A warm bath and late breakfast on the lawn afterwards;" but he thought it better to say nothing at all, and to let go his clutch just a tiny bit.

Bilbo slept curled up on the hard rock more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed in his own little hole at home. But all night he dreamed of his own house and wandered in his sleep into all his different rooms looking for something that he could not find nor remember what it looked like.

You would have laughed (from a safe distance), if you had seen the dwarves sitting up in the trees with their beards dangling down, like old gentlemen gone cracked and playing at being boys. Fili and Kili were at the top of a tall larch like an enormous Christmas tree.

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!

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!

“There is always more about you than anyone expects!”

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.