Bilbo's quote: compliment or insult? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Arawethiel · 05-16-2003, 09:00 PM

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I thought about this for a while too when I made this quote my sig. The first part is definitely a compliment. The second half is what really boggles the mind. It confused me back when I first read it in The Hobbit. I prefer to think that it was a compliment saying that Bilbo didn't like them as much as they deserved. However, I can also see it as being an insult implying that some Hobbits deserve to be liked less than they are. I guess it depends on how you look at it. I like this quote a lot though and I think it would be funny to use on a real group of people in a speech. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

05-16-2003, 09:00 PM	#27
Arawethiel Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 45	[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I thought about this for a while too when I made this quote my sig. The first part is definitely a compliment. The second half is what really boggles the mind. It confused me back when I first read it in The Hobbit. I prefer to think that it was a compliment saying that Bilbo didn't like them as much as they deserved. However, I can also see it as being an insult implying that some Hobbits deserve to be liked less than they are. I guess it depends on how you look at it. I like this quote a lot though and I think it would be funny to use on a real group of people in a speech. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ "If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes." Gandalf sticking it to the Dwarves.