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Quotes from The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien

1892–1973

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

The Hobbit (1937)

Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

The Hobbit (1937)

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

The Hobbit (1937)

They were trolls. Obviously trolls. Even Bilbo, in spite of his sheltered life, could see that: from the great heavy faces of them, and their size, and the shape of their legs, not to mention their language, which was not drawing-room fashion at all, at all.

The Hobbit (1937)

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