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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 1 | Location 101-103 2021-04-14 00:20:39
“Yes, yes, my dear sir—and I do know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don’t remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took’s son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!”
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 5 | Location 157-159 2021-04-14 00:24:49
Balin and Dwalin were talking at the table like old friends (as a matter of fact they were brothers).
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 8 | Location 202-203 2021-04-14 00:27:47
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 323-324 2021-04-15 00:27:52
Dwarves can make a fire almost anywhere out of almost anything, wind or no wind; but they could not do it that night, not even Oin and Gloin, who were specially good at it.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 32 | Location 557-559 2021-04-15 00:46:13
Bilbo never forgot the way they slithered and slipped in the dusk down the steep zig-zag path into the secret valley of Rivendell. The air grew warmer as they got lower, and the smell of the pine-trees made him drowsy, so that every now and again he nodded and nearly fell off, or bumped his nose on the pony’s neck. Their spirits rose as they went down and down. The trees changed to beech and oak, and there was a comfortable feeling in the twilight. The last green had almost faded out of the grass, when they came at length to an open glade not far above the banks of the stream.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 47 | Location 759-763 2021-04-15 23:09:38
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 51 | Location 815-817 2021-04-15 23:12:07
This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin-cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade. This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foe-hammer that the king of Gondolin once wore. Keep them well!”
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 833-834 2021-04-15 23:13:51
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something (or so Thorin said to the young dwarves). You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 57 | Location 901-902 2021-04-15 23:18:39
His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 68 | Location 1042-1044 2021-04-15 23:27:15
“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 69 | Location 1059-1060 2021-04-15 23:28:19
Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake; for lake it was, wide and deep and deadly cold. He paddled it with large feet dangling over the side, but never a ripple did he make.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 71 | Location 1082-1085 2021-04-15 23:29:43
“I will give you a name,” he said to it, “and I shall call you Sting.”
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 156 | Location 2241-2242 2021-04-17 23:56:15
People sang on the quays and out of windows. The white oars dipped and splashed, and off they went north up the lake on the last stage of their long journey. The only person thoroughly unhappy was Bilbo.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 200 | Location 2845-2846 2021-04-18 21:30:55
There was little grass, and before long there was neither bush nor tree, and only broken and blackened stumps to speak of ones long vanished. They were come to the Desolation of the Dragon, and they were come at the waning of the year.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 203 | Location 2862-2864 2021-04-18 21:33:13
There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don’t expect too much.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 213 | Location 2986-2989 2021-04-18 21:43:05
It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterwards were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 214 | Location 3006-3008 2021-04-18 21:44:39
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 217 | Location 3037-3037 2021-04-18 21:46:43
“Arrow!” said the bowman. “Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have 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!”
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 251 | Location 3472-3474 2021-04-18 22:23:11
“Behold! the birds are gathering back again to the Mountain and to Dale from South and East and West, for word has gone out that Smaug is dead!”
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 259 | Location 3577-3579 2021-04-18 22:30:05
But the Elvenking said: “Long will I tarry, ere I begin this war for gold.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 280 | Location 3869-3869 2021-04-18 22:48:18
So began a battle that none had expected; and it was called the Battle of Five Armies, and it was very terrible. Upon one side were the Goblins and the Wild Wolves, and upon the other were Elves and Men and Dwarves.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 281 | Location 3884-3885 2021-04-18 22:49:15
“The Eagles!” cried Bilbo once more, but at that moment a stone hurtling from above smote heavily on his helm, and he fell with a crash and knew no more.
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 287 | Location 3956-3958 2021-04-18 22:53:20
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!”
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 290 | Location 3989-3990 2021-04-18 22:55:01
“Farewell! O Gandalf!” said the king. “May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 295 | Location 4052-4053 2021-04-18 22:59:16
Gandalf looked at him. “My dear Bilbo!” he said. “Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.”
<The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings)>(Tolkien, J.R.R.) Your Highlight on page 302 | Location 4180-4181 2021-04-18 23:03:21