“Perhaps we’ll find him again…”

“No, no, never! He’s lost his Precious.” 

tolkienianos:

  “Who are you?” he said, thrusting his dagger in front of him.
   “What iss he, my preciouss?” whispered Gollum (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to). This is what he had come to find out, for he was not really very hungry at the moment, only curious; otherwise he would have grabbed first and whispered afterwards.
  “I am Mr. Bilbo Baggins. I have lost the dwarves and I have lost the wizard, and I don’t know where I am; and “I don’t want to know, if only I can get ,away.”
  “What’s he got in his handses?” said Gollum, looking at the sword, which he did not quite like.
  “A sword, a blade which came out of Gondolin!”
  “Sssss,” said Gollum, and became quite polite. “Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss. It like riddles, praps it does, does it?”

“Riddles in the Dark” - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

tolkienianos:

  A box without hinges, key, or lid,
  Yet golden treasure inside is hid
  he [Bilbo] asked to gain time, until he could think of a really hard one. This he thought a dreadfully easy chestnut, though he had not asked it in the usual words. But it proved a nasty poser for Gollum. He hissed to himself, and still he did not answer; he whispered and spluttered.
  After some while Bilbo became impatient. “Well, what is it?” he said. “The answer’s not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think from the noise you are making.”
  “Give us a chance; let it give us a chance, my preciouss-ss-ss.”
  “Well,” said Bilbo, after giving him a long chance, “what about your guess?”
  But suddenly Gollum remembered thieving from nests long ago, and sitting under the river bank teaching his grandmother, teaching his grandmother to suck-“Eggses!” he hissed. “Eggses it is!”

“Riddles in the Dark” - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

wewontneedlegs:

danceabletragedy:

Hobbit:Riddles in the Dark

This is so adorable.

At least, Bilbo is.