«Хоббит» kitabından alıntılar, sayfa 10
“There is always more about you than anyone expects!”
There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don’t expect too much.
не очень-то вежливо, но его поразили
"Good morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.
"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or meant that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something.
— Спасшись от гоблинов, попали волкам!
Слова его стали пословицей, хотя теперь в подобной неприятной ситуации мы говорим "из огня да в полымя".
It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.
Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
- И что же это означает? - осведомился он. - Желаешь ли доброго утра мне или хочешь сказать, что оно было добрым до моего появления? Или намекаешь, что у тебя все в порядке и ты не прочь поболтать?
