“The Hobbit” quotes

(1977)
Movie The Hobbit
Title The Hobbit
Year 1977
Directors Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Genre Musical, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Animation
All actors – Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Cyril Ritchard, Brother Theodore, Paul Frees, Jack DeLeon, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Glenn Yarbrough
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  • “- Bilbo Baggins: This is deucedly uncomfortable. I'm certain to get a rash!
    - Thorin Oakenshield: That armor was forged in the foundaries of my grandfather. Wear it proudly, and it will carry you to victory!”

    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield
    [Tag:clothes, victory]
  • “- Gandalf the Grey: I have brought him.
    - Thorin Oakenshield: Farewell, good thief. I wish to part in friendship, and would take back my words at the gate.
    - Bilbo Baggins: There were many words I would take back, also.”

    John Huston - Gandalf
    Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
  • “- Bilbo Baggins: I hope only to be taken prisoner as quickly as possible!
    - Thorin Oakenshield: Those are the words of a coward!
    - Bilbo Baggins: The coward who flushed out Smaug? The coward who saved you time and time again? The coward who always went forward while you cringed behind?”

    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield
    [Tag:cowardice]
  • Thief! Thief! Baggins! We hates it! Hates it! Forever!”

    Brother Theodore - Gollum
    [Tag:hatred]
  • “- Gandalf the Grey: Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies because you helped bring them about? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You're a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I'm very fond of you, but you're only quite a little fellow in a wide world,...” (continue)(continue reading)
    John Huston - Gandalf
    Orson Bean - Bilbo Baggins
    [Tag:luck, prophecy]
  • “- Gandalf the Grey: Bilbo Baggins?
    - Bilbo Baggins: Uh, yes.
    - Gandalf the Grey: I am looking to hire a burglar.
    - Bilbo Baggins: Burglar. I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place.
    - Gandalf the Grey: You mean you do not wish to share a grand adventure?
    - Bilbo Baggins: Dear me, no. We, Hobbits, are plain quiet folk. Adventures make one late...” (continue)
    (continue reading)
    John Huston - Gandalf The Grey
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    [Tag:adventure, theft]
  • “Your kind will never understand war, hobbit.”
    Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield
    [Tag:ethnicity, war]
  • “- Bilbo Baggins: Perhaps you know the way out?
    - Gollum: Yes, gollum. But perhaps we sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my precious. It likes riddles?”

    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    Brother Theodore - Gollum
  • “- Gandalf the Grey: This is a map of Lonely Mountain, presented to me 100 years ago by your father.
    - Thorin Oakenshield: Why wasn't it given to me, the rightful heir?
    - Gandalf the Grey: I have chosen my own time to give it to you.”

    John Huston - Gandalf
    Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield
  • “No hat, no stick, no pipe, not even a pocket handkerchief. How can one survive?”
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    [Tag:survival]
  • “I never promised to burgle you first class accommodations.”
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    [Tag:comfort, promises]
  • “- Thorin Oakenshield: Hush. You are no coward, my friend. I am sorry I so named you.
    - Bilbo Baggins: This is not important...
    - Thorin Oakenshield: I was wrong. You did understand war. It was I who did not... until now.
    - Bilbo Baggins: Farewell, King Under the Mountain.
    - Thorin Oakenshield: Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if...” (continue)
    (continue reading)
    Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
  • “I'd rather be back in Hobbitton.”
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    [Tag:nostalgia]
  • “- Smaug: Be done with your riddles. What else brought you, lake man?
    - Bilbo Baggins: Revenge!
    - Smaug: Revenge?
    - Bilbo Baggins: Surely you must realize that your success has made you some bitter enemies.”

    Richard Boone - Smaug
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    [Tag:enemy, revenge]
  • “- Thorin Oakenshield: Oh great Elf King, my truest friend and ally, we must join our forces against this common scourge!
    - The Elvenking: But of course, oh noble King Under the Mountain. Your people are like brothers unto mine.
    - Bard: And my men and all their weapons are as one with yours! Together we will vanquish the fell foe...
    - Everyone:...” (continue)
    (continue reading)
    Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield
    Otto Preminger - The Elvenking
    John Stephenson - Bard
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
  • “I'm Mr. Bilbo Baggins, I've lost my dwarves, my wizard and my way.”
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
  • “I am Smaug! I kill when I wish! I am strong, strong, strong! My armor is like tenfold shields! My teeth are like swords! My claws, spears! The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt! My wings, a hurricane! And my breath... death!”
    Richard Boone - Smaug
  • Bother burglary and everything to do with it!”
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    [Tag:theft]
  • “Black arrow! You've never failed me, and I've always recovered you. I had you from my father, and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true King under the Mountain, go now and speed well!”
    John Stephenson - Bard
    [Tag:faith, weapons]
  • “- Bilbo Baggins: A box without hinges, key, or a lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
    - Gollum: Eggs! Eggs is the answer.”

    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    Brother Theodore - Gollum
    [Tag:gold, questions]
  • “I do love maps! I have quite a collection of them.”
    Orson Bean - Bilbo
    [Tag:passion]
  • “- Smaug: Well, thief? I smell you, I feel your air - and I hear your breath. Come along! Help yourself; there's plenty, and to spare.
    - Bilbo Baggins: Oh... thank you, Smaug the Magnificent! I did not come for wealth. I wish only to have a look at you, and see if you are truly as great as tales say; I did not believe them!”

    Richard Boone - Smaug
    Orson Bean - Bilbo Baggins
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