The Hobbit Quotes: 29 Sayings That Will Take You Back to Middle Earth

You might have already listened to the Hobbit book or about its very famous movie series.

The Hobbit is an amazingly famous book that tells you the story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventure to middle earth.

Well, I won’t tell you the whole story here as you want the Hobbit quotes only, but you can read The Hobbit summary to learn about this adventurous journey.

This amazing fiction book was written by the most renowned author, J. R. R. Tolkien, and was published in 1937.

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Anyway, we talked a lot about the book, not let’s talk about the quotes from The Hobbit.

29 The Hobbit Quotes That Will Ignite Your Sense of Adventure

“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“May the hair on your toes never fall out!”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“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, The Hobbit

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Fly, you fools!”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Even the smallest person can change the course of history.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Dark for dark business. There are many powers in this world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“To the end of his days, Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside, without a hat, a walking-stick or any money, or anything that he usually took when he went out.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“If you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I don’t like anything here at all. Step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air, and water all seem accursed.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“The night was growing lighter behind him.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I have no hope that he who sets out to see all of the world will ever return. But then, I have no hope that he who sets out to see one thing will either.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me!”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Let’s have no more argument. I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a burglar, a burglar he is, or will be when the time comes.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“All the same, I should like it all plain and clear,” said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf’s recommendation.

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“May the sun shine on you and the moon guide you.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“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, The Hobbit

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Wrapping Up

I hope these quotes from the Hobbit book helped you go through the world of adventure with Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and thirteen dwarves. Also, you can share these quotes with your reader friends and Hobbit fans.