They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.

Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.