“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”

“Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles."May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.”

“Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!”

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

“That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.”

“But it is not your own Shire,’ said Gildor. ‘Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”