The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Ian Holm: Bilbo

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• Bilbo : [to his party guests]  I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

• Bilbo : I'm old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel... thin. Sort of stretched, like... butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return. In fact I mean not to.

• Bilbo : [voice]  It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

• Gandalf : I think you should leave the ring behind, Bilbo. Is that so hard?

  Bilbo : Well, no.

  [frowning] 

  Bilbo : ...and yes. Now it comes to it, I don't feel like parting with it. It's mine, I found it. It came to me!

  Gandalf : There's no need to get angry.

  Bilbo : Well, if I'm angry, it's your fault.

  [to himself] 

  Bilbo : ...it's mine... my own... my precious...

  Gandalf : Precious? It's been called that before, but not by you.

  Bilbo : Oh, what business is it of yours what I do with my own things?

  Gandalf : I think you've had that ring quite long enough.

  Bilbo : You want it for yourself!

  Gandalf : BILBO BAGGINS! Do not take me for some conjuror of cheap tricks! I am not trying to rob you. I'm trying to help you.

• Bilbo : Mrs Bracegirdle, how nice to see you. Welcome welcome. Are all these children yours?

  Mrs. Bracegirdle : Yeah.

  Bilbo : Good gracious, you have been productive.

• Bilbo : [answering the knocking on his door]  No, thank you. We don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations.

  Gandalf : [from outside]  And what about very old friends?

• Bilbo : [enigmatically]  You're a good lad, Frodo. I'm very selfish, you know. Yes, I am. Very selfish. I don't know why I took you in after your mother and father died but it wasn't out of charity. I think it was because... of all my numerous relations, you were the one Baggins that showed real spirit.

  Frodo : Bilbo, have you been at the Gaffer's home brew?

  Bilbo : No.

  [pause] 

  Bilbo : Well, yes, but that's not the point...

• [holding up a mail shirt] 

  Bilbo : Here's a pretty thing: Mithril. As light as a feather, and as hard as dragon-scales.

• Gandalf : Frodo suspects something.

  Bilbo : Of course he does, he's a Baggins, not some blockheaded Bracegirdle from Hardbottle.

• Bilbo : I've thought of an ending for my book - "And he lived happily ever after... to the end of his days."

• Bilbo : You will keep an eye on Frodo, won't you?

  Gandalf : Two eyes, as often as I can spare them.

• Bilbo : My dear Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and Proudfoots!

  Everard Proudfoot : Proudfeet!

• Bilbo : [to Frodo]  I am sorry I brought this upon you, my boy. I'm sorry that... you must carry this burden. I'm sorry for everything.

• [before his 111th birthday party] 

  Bilbo : Gandalf, my old friend, this will be a night to remember.

• Bilbo : [to the crowd]  I regret to announce - this is The End. I am going now. I bid you all a very fond farewell.

  Bilbo : [whispers to Frodo]  Goodbye.

• Frodo Baggins : Remember what Bilbo used to say. "It's a dangerous business..."

  Bilbo Baggins : [voice-over]  ... Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing *where* you might be swept off to.

• Bilbo Baggins : Bilbo: No, wait. It's here in my pocket. Isn't that... isn't' that odd now? Yet, after all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

  Gandalf : Gandalf: There's no need to get angry.

  Gandalf : Bilbo: Well, if I'm angry, it's your fault! It's mine, my own, my precious.