The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
In those days I lived an exclusively respectable life and nothing unexpected ever happened.
- Good morning. - What are you trying to say? Do you wish me good morning? Or are you saying that it’s a good morning and it doesn’t matter what I think about it? Or perhaps you want to say that you experienced the kindness of this morning? Or do you think everyone should be kind this morning? “All this at once, I suppose.”
Well, it's nice that you remember at least something about me. Even if it's just fireworks.
— Sword or axe—what do you prefer? “I’m pretty good at throwing chestnuts, if you want to know.”
If there is a key, there must be a door.
It's not a sin to embellish any good story.
Loyalty, honor and a warm heart - I don’t dare ask for more.
Look what I blew my nose! He has arms, legs and everything.
- You can’t reach them, they are without brains! -Are they without brains?! What can we say about us then?
—Where did you go, may I ask? - Find out what's ahead. - Why did you come back? - Look what's behind.
- I have never used a sword. “I hope you don’t have to.”
Brave is the one who finds the strength not to take someone’s life, but to spare it.
- These are Gundabat wargs. They will catch up with you! - And these are Rosgobel rabbits. Let's see who wins!
If we want to succeed, we will have to show tact. And respect. And a lot of charm. Therefore, I will speak.
“...So my sword didn’t participate in the battle?” “I’m not even sure it’s a sword.” More like an envelope opener.
- He's an eccentric, I agree. He lives a solitary life... - That's not the point. And in excessive consumption of all kinds of mushrooms. They darkened his mind and turned his teeth yellow.
Saruman believes that only great power can curb evil. But something else was revealed to me. I realized that various little things, the everyday actions of ordinary people, help to contain the darkness. Ordinary love and kindness... Why Bilbo Baggins? Probably because I'm scared. And it gives me courage.
“I thought we lost Bilbo.” “He’s been lost ever since he left home.”
If you don't want to talk, we'll make you scream!
A friend of mine will pay well for your head. But only the head, nothing more.
Shine and splash, my beauty!
Fail and drown!
Did I mention you'd be a burden? That you won't survive the hike? Why don't you belong among us? I've never been so wrong in my life.
- I'm sorry I doubted you. - No, I would doubt myself too.
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Songs
Make the knife blunt, rot the spoons, hit the bottles, burn the corks. Come on, hit the floor hard at once - to spite Bilbo Baggins! Tear up the tablecloth, throw the fat on the carpet, throw trash on his bed, quickly spill the milk in the pantry! Hit a bottle of wine against the door! Throw the jugs into boiling water, crush them and then stir! If they didn’t break, then you know - take them out and roll them on the floor! Bilbo Baggins to spite!
Song of the Dwarves
We wander through the Misty Mountains ridge, Into the caves where the light does not shine. Our path lies through the darkness of granite, To find gold along the way. The winds moaned in the darkness of the night, The branches whispered all about their own, Then the fire burned brightly and red, raging with the sky on a par with the sky...
Goblin Song
Wat, wat, wat, wat, Goblingrad Wat, wat, wat, wat, Goblingrad I'll take a whip or a whip - My enemy will roar.
If there is a key, there must be a door. Look what I blew my nose! He has arms, legs and everything. Yes, he ate too many mushrooms!
Gandalf
What are you trying to say? Do you wish me good morning? Or do you claim that it’s a good morning and it doesn’t matter what I think about it? Or maybe you want to say that you experienced the kindness of this morning? Or do you think everyone should be kind this morning? Well, it's nice that you remember at least something about me. Even if it's just fireworks. Brave is the one who finds the strength not to take someone’s life, but to spare it. Tell me, since when did your mother's napkins and plates become so important to you? I remember a young hobbit who always ran into the forest in search of elves, stayed there until late and carried clay, twigs and fireflies home in the middle of the night. This young hobbit always dreamed of finding out what was going on outside the Shire. The world is not at all in your books and maps. He's over there, outside the window. If we want to succeed, we will have to show tact. And respect. And a lot of charm. Therefore, I will speak. At the Battle of the Green Fields, he swung his club so hard that the goblin king's head flew off his shoulders and fell straight into the rabbit hole! Thus the battle was won... and the game of golf was invented. You have no idea what hidden capabilities it has! And he has no idea. [about Bilbo] It's no sin to embellish any good story. I am Gandalf...and Gandalf...it’s me. I don’t know...Saruman believes that only great power can curb evil, but something else was revealed to me. I realized that various little things, the everyday actions of ordinary people, help to contain the darkness. Ordinary love and kindness. Why Bilbo Baggins? Probably because I'm scared and he gives me courage
High Goblin
If you don't want to talk, we'll make you scream! A friend of mine will pay well for your head. But only the head, nothing more. Biter! Beat!
Gollum
Shine and splash, my beauty! What's in his nasty, dirty pockets? Eggs, eggs! Moist, crispy, little eggs! Yes! Grandma taught us to suck!
Thorin Oakenshield
Loyalty, honor and a warm heart - I don’t dare ask for more. You! Where did you go? You could have died. Did I mention you'd be a burden? That you won't survive the hike? Why don't you belong among us? I have never been so wrong in my life...I'm sorry for doubting you.
Bilbo Baggins
My dear Frodo: One day you asked if I had told you everything about my adventures. Of course, I can honestly say that I told you the truth... but I didn’t tell you all of it. And where illness reigns, always expect trouble. The dragon will guard its prey until its last breath. It all started very simply, as you might have guessed: In a hole underground there lived a hobbit. Not in a nasty, dirty, damp hole full of worms and smelling of mold. It was a hobbit hole. And this means: delicious food, a warm fire, all sorts of amenities and home comfort. It’s unlikely that anyone in our area enjoys adventure. Just worries and troubles, and you'll miss lunch! In those days I lived an exclusively respectable life and nothing unexpected ever happened. Don't think that I don't like guests... I love guests, like any hobbit, but I prefer to get to know them before they come!
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - born January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (South Africa). English writer, poet, philologist, professor at Oxford University. He is best known as the author of classic high fantasy works: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Died September 2, 1973 Bournemouth, England.Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases - John Tolkien
- I've always been incredibly fascinated by trees.
- I don't like the slightest hint of allegory.
- I myself am an absolute hobbit, only taller.
- No man can judge his own holiness.
- The best form for a long piece is a journey.
- Goblins are not villains, they just have a high level of corruption.
- If I am remembered at all, it will be because of The Lord of the Rings.
- Linguistic structures have always had an effect on me, like music or color.
- I wrote my first work at the age of seven, and it was about a dragon.
- The true story of the writer is contained in his books, and not in the facts of his biography.
- The human heart is much better than human actions, and even more so words.
- Spanish is the only Romance language I enjoy speaking.
- I have become less cynical than I was because I remember my own sins and stupidities.
- When you write a complex story, you must draw a map right away - then it will be too late.
- My childhood cannot be called unhappy. It was tragic, but it was not unhappy.
- The destruction of Germany, even if it was deserved a hundred times over, is one of the world’s worst catastrophes.
- Oh, I built this whole mythological world long before I wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
- I was a shy, unlucky little creature and a mediocre student. But I was good at rugby.
- Don’t brush aside grandmother’s tales, because only in them is preserved knowledge forgotten by those who considered themselves wise.
- I am very sorry that it seems that I do not have a single Jewish ancestor, not a single representative of this talented people.
- Not being able to use a pencil or pen, you feel helpless, like a chicken left without a beak.
- I have been reproached more than once for not having taken the trouble to properly depict the economics, science, religion and philosophy of Middle-earth.
- My books incorporate all my knowledge of linguistics. So I don’t have any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.
- The right name gives me great pleasure. When I write, I always start with a name. First the name - then the story, and not vice versa.
- There is always a gap between our ideas and the ability to bring them to life, and we must continue to move until we know, be able and can do more.
- The Shire is very similar to the part of the world in which my knowledge of the surrounding reality began, heightened by the fact that I was not born here - I was born in Bloomsdale, in South Africa.
- Of course, I don't own The Lord of the Rings. He was born because it was destined to be so, and must live his own life, although, naturally, I will watch over him, as parents watch over a child.
- The beauty of a fairy tale is that in it a person realizes himself most fully as a creator. He does not “comment on life,” as they like to say today; he creates, to the best of his ability, a “secondary world.”
- At my age, I can most definitely be considered a person who lived in one of the most dynamic historical eras. I am sure that never before have there been seventy years that have accommodated so many changes.
- The Hobbit was not really intended to be a prequel to The Lord of the Rings, but once it was in the space of the world I had imagined, it became involved in the events taking place there.
- Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be approaching its final, unfinished stage - despite the fact that, alas, as a result, everyone was impoverished, many were orphaned or crippled, and millions died, but one thing won: the Machines.
- Most of my time I struggle with the natural inertia of a lazy person. An old university teacher once told me: “It’s not just the interference, my boy, it’s also the fear that you’ll be interrupted.”
- I have always been impressed by how we survive through indomitable courage - rather small people with no chance of victory in the fight against jungles, volcanoes, wild animals. But we continue to fight without even seeing a path to victory.
- I retyped the entire work twice and corrected it by hand many, many more times while lying on my bed in the attic. And yet there are still a few mistakes that amuse me. But these were terrible grammatical errors for a professor of English language and literature.
- From an early age I was saddened by the poverty of my native country, which had no legends of its own. Greek, Celtic, German-Scandinavian, Finnish chivalric romances - all this is there, but there is nothing purely English, with the exception of cheap literary crafts.
- With the gnomes everything is quite obvious - you will agree that in many ways they remind you of the Jews. Their words are clearly Semitic, as are the constructions of their phrases. Hobbits are simply English peasants. Their small stature reflects the fact that they have little imagination, which does not prevent them from having quite a bit of courage and hidden strength.
There and Back Again: 18 Quotes from John R. R. Tolkien
Exactly 80 years ago, on September 21, 1937, the novel by John R.R. was published. Tolkien's "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" is a work that radically changed the portrait of world literature. On the occasion of such a remarkable date, our editors have prepared a selection of the most apt and metaphorical statements of the writer.
Creator of the magical world of The Lord of the Rings (the trilogy was published in the mid-1950s) and one of the most popular authors of Foggy Albion (in 2008, The Times newspaper ranked him sixth in the list of “50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945”) , Tolkien did not limit himself only to writing. He taught at Oxford, studied linguistics and poetry. Tolkien not only studied different languages, but also invented his own. For example, Elvish, which is based on Latin, Greek and Finnish, is still taught in some schools in Birmingham today.
The writer died on September 2, 1973, at the age of 81 in Bournemouth, England.
“The true story of a writer is contained in his books, and not in the facts of his biography.”
“With the gnomes everything is quite obvious - you will agree that in many ways they remind you of the Jews. Their words are clearly Semitic, as are the constructions of their phrases. Hobbits are simply English peasants. Their small stature reflects the fact that they have little imagination, which does not prevent them from having quite a bit of courage and hidden strength."
“If you live side by side with a dragon, please consider it.”
“Linguistic structures have always had an effect on me, like music or color.”
"Goblins are not evil, they just have a high level of corruption."
“It’s better to face even the most bitter truth. What's the use of wandering around in the fog?
“The human heart is much better than human actions, and even more so than words.”
“I have always been impressed by how we survive thanks to indomitable courage - rather small people with no chance of victory in the fight against jungles, volcanoes, wild animals. But we continue to fight without even seeing a path to victory.”
“It’s tiring to always be precise.”
“I am very sorry that it seems that I do not have a single Jewish ancestor, not a single representative of this talented people.”
“I’m less cynical than I was because I remember my own sins and stupidities.”
“Getting the right name gives me great pleasure. When I write, I always start with a name. First the name, then the story, not the other way around.”
“When you run away from your fear, you often find that you actually took a shortcut to meet it.”
“This great blessing is annoying, stubborn friends who do not allow you to go into deathly silence forever.”
“Dark deeds must be done in the dark.”
“You should never offend an eagle if you are a little hobbit and sit at night near its nest on the top of a mountain.”
“You cannot be both a tyrant and an adviser at the same time.”
“Adventure is not a joyride on a bright May day.”
