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“Small hobbit-children ran after the cart all through Hobbiton and right up the hill. It had a cargo of fireworks, as they rightly guessed.” ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (Art: “Hobbits as Children” by Molly Ostertag)
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“As is told in The Hobbit, there came one day to Bilbo's door the great Wizard, Gandalf the Grey, and thirteen dwarves with him: none other, indeed, than Thorin Oakenshield, descendant of kings, and his twelve companions in exile.” ~ Prologue, Of the Finding of the Ring, The Fellowship of the Ring (Art: “Dwarves at Bilbo's house” by edarleinon DeviantArt)
“[Bilbo’s] hand strayed to the hilt of his small sword. Gandalf ’s eyes flashed. ‘It will be my turn to get angry soon,’ he said. ‘If you say that again, I shall. Then you will see Gandalf the Grey uncloaked.’ He took a step towards the hobbit, and he seemed to grow tall and menacing; his shadow filled the little room.“ ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (Art: “Gandalf Final” by timshinn73 on DeviantArt)
[The Gaffer, cont.] “That very month was September, and as fine as you could ask. A day or two later a rumour (probably started by the knowledgeable Sam) was spread about that there were going to be fireworks – fireworks, what is more, such as had not been seen in the Shire for nigh on a century, not indeed since the Old Took died.” ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (Art: “Gandalf’s Fireworks” by Dimitry Burmak)
[Bilbo and Gandalf cont.] “’[Frodo] ought to be comfortable here. I am leaving everything to him, of course, except a few oddments. I hope he will be happy, when he gets used to being on his own. It’s time he was his own master now.’ ‘Everything?’ said Gandalf. ‘The ring as well? You agreed to that, you remember.’ ‘Well, er, yes, I suppose so,’ stammered Bilbo.“ ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (Art: “And Back Again” by arisuonpaa on DeviantArt)
[Bilbo, talking about the Ring] “’I found it, and Gollum would have killed me, if I hadn’t kept it. I’m not a thief, whatever he said.’ ‘I have never called you one,’ Gandalf answered. ‘And I am not one either. I am not trying to rob you, but to help you. I wish you would trust me, as you used.’ He turned away, and the shadow passed. He seemed to dwindle again to an old grey man, bent and troubled.“ ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (FOTR screenshot)
“There were many Bagginses and Boffins, and also many Tooks and Brandybucks; there were various Grubbs (relations of Bilbo Baggins’ grandmother), and various Chubbs (connexions of his Took grandfather); and a selection of Burrowses, Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Brockhouses, Goodbodies, Hornblowers and Proudfoots. Some of these were only very distantly connected with Bilbo, and some had hardly ever been in Hobbiton before, as they lived in remote corners of the Shire.” ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (FOTR screenshot)
