“The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.”

“I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size”

“You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in his eyrie at night!”

“I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).”

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

“A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do.”

“Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”