"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."

liliaenbaggins:

<sub>LotR Alphabet - B for Baggins

“’You’ll live to regret it, young fellow! Why didn’t you go too? You don’t belong here; you’re no Baggins –you- you’re a Brandybuck!’
‘Did you hear that, Merry? That was an insult, if you like,’ said Frodo as he shut the door on her.
‘It was a compliment’, said Merry Brandybuck, ‘and so, of course, not true.’”</sub>