He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.