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Bilbo Baggins + best quotes
I will never betray him, by word or deed.
make me choose → rramble-on asked: frodo baggins or bilbo baggins
get to know me meme: [1/5] male characters - bilbo baggins (tolkien!verse)
"You’re a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I’m quite fond of you. But you are really just a little fellow, in a wide world after all."
darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.
snap out of it, gandalf.
Bilbo realizing how bad the ring affects him
Bilbo almost stopped breathing, and went stiff himself. He was desperate. He must get away, out of this horrible darkness, while he had any strength left. He must fight. He must stab the foul thing, put its eyes out, kill it. It meant to kill him. No, not a fair fight. He was invisible now. Gollum had no sword. Gollum had not actually threatened to kill him. Or tried to yet. And he was miserable, alone, lost. A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength, he leapt.
So I’ve been re-reading The Hobbit along with The Fellowship of the Ring and I noticed this:
“‘You will have to manage without pocket-handkerchiefs, and a good many other things, before you get to the journey’s end. As for a hat, I have got a spare hood and cloak in my luggage.’
That’s how they all came to start, jogging off from the inn on a fine morning just before May, on laden ponies; and Bilbo was wearing a dark-green hood (a little weather-stained) and a dark-green cloak borrowed from Dwalin. They were too large for him, and he looked rather comic.” (Chapter two of The Hobbit)
"Then [Bilbo] put on quickly some old untidy garments, and fastened round his waist a worn leather belt. On it he hung a short sword in a battered black-leather scabbard. From a locked drawer, smelling of moth-balls, he took out an old cloak and hood. They had been locked up as if they were very precious, but they were so patched and weather-stained that their original colour could hardly be guessed: it might have been dark green. They were rather too large for him.” (Chapter one of The Fellowship of the Ring)
BILBO. KEPT. DWALIN’S. CLOAK.
DWALIN. LET. BILBO. KEEP. HIS. CLOAK.
{4/9 quotes} → 'It is true that I wish to go back to the Shire,' said Frodo. ‘But first I must go to Rivendell. For if there could be anything wanting in a time so blessed, I missed Bilbo; and I was grieved when among all the household of Elrond I saw that he was not come.’
"I am almost tempted to let you take it."
… you step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to!