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Tolkien Topics: Movie Discussion: The Hobbit:
"'Good morning!' said Bilbo, and he meant it.":
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Ælfwine Samylfin
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Jul 27 2011, 1:02am
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"'Good morning!' said Bilbo, and he meant it."
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"'What do you mean?' [Gandalf] said. 'Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is morning to be good on?'
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"'Good morning!' [Bilbo] said at last. 'We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water.' By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
"'What a lot of things you do use 'good morning' for!' said Gandalf. 'Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.'"
That passage defined my sense of humour from a very young age, and I desperately hope some tiny reference at least is made to it.
"The job of the English Linguistics Department at Oxford University is to fight the English Literature Department!"
-T. A. Shippey, PhD., "Rediscovering Middle-Earth: The Roots of Tolkien's Myth"
(This post was edited by Ælfwine Samylfin on Jul 27 2011, 1:05am)
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