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Alphaelin · 04-02-2004, 01:35 AM

Several of my favorite parts of the trilogy have been quoted, but no one has mentioned Barliman Butterbur! I smile every time I read his response to the attack on the hobbits' room:

"Guests unable to sleep in their beds and good bolsters ruined and all! What are we coming to?" FOTR, A Knife in the Dark

And then there's Gandalf's comment about him at the end of his letter to Frodo: "A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber room: thing wanted always buried. If he forgets, I shall roast him." FOTR, Strider

And here's a favorite line of mine from The Hobbit :

"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo, you fool!"

04-02-2004, 01:35 AM	#1
Alphaelin Wight Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Tottering about in the Wild Posts: 130	Several of my favorite parts of the trilogy have been quoted, but no one has mentioned Barliman Butterbur! I smile every time I read his response to the attack on the hobbits' room: "Guests unable to sleep in their beds and good bolsters ruined and all! What are we coming to?" FOTR, A Knife in the Dark And then there's Gandalf's comment about him at the end of his letter to Frodo: "A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber room: thing wanted always buried. If he forgets, I shall roast him." FOTR, Strider And here's a favorite line of mine from The Hobbit : "Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo, you fool!" __________________ Not all those who wander are lost . . . because some of us know how to read a map.