"I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

carrying the world around his neck

"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."

hewhowalksunseen:

ninefingered:

“But I haven’t eaten real food in months. Nothing but elvish waybread! You ask the impossible bringing such delicious mushrooms into our home!”

   ”If you want a meal I will make you a meal! But you can not just eat five bags of mushrooms in four days! Do you have worms? You gave some to Samwise, didn’t you?”

”Bilbo, all Sam has been eating lately is potato chips. I hardly think I have a need to share my mushrooms.“ He said a bit defensively.

Oh.

”…I should like a meal, too, if you please.“