“Now certainly Bilbo was in what is called a tight place. But you must remember it was not quite so tight for him as it would have been for me or for you. Hobbits are not quite like ordinary people; and after all if their holes are nice cheery places and properly aired, quite different from the tunnels of the goblins, still they are more used to tunnelling than we are, and they do not easily lose their sense of direction under-ground - not when their heads have recovered from being bumped. Also they can move very quietly, and hide easily, and recover wonderfully from falls and bruises, and they have a fund of wisdom and wise sayings that men have mostly never heard or have forgotten long ago.”
Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
Work
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
Source: Testament of the Hollow
Source: The Stone Carvers
Source: Theresa May: The Bankruptcy of British Politics
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“The NRA kills more Americans than Muslim terrorists do.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Your gun may be able to mow down a bunch of elementary school kids, but it can't stop a tank.”
Source: American Bloodlust: The Violent Psychological Conditioning of Today’s Young People