The Hobbit (1977 TV Movie)

John Huston: Gandalf The Grey

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• Gandalf the Grey : [Bilbo and Gandalf enter Thorin's tent. Thorin lies dying]  I have brought him.

  Thorin : Farewell. good thief. I wish to part in friendship, and would take back my words at the gate.

  Bilbo Baggins : There were many words I would take back, also.

  Thorin : And does it take this to make us to see each other?

  Bilbo Baggins : Thorin...

  Thorin : Hush. You are no coward, my friend. I am sorry I so named you.

  Bilbo Baggins : This is not important...

  Thorin : I was wrong. You did understand war. It was I who did not... until now.

  Bilbo Baggins : Farewell, King Under the Mountain.

  Thorin : Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.

  Bilbo Baggins : [crying]  Farewell, Thorin.

• Gandalf the Grey : Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies because you helped bring them about? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You're a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I'm very fond of you, but you're only quite a little fellow in a wide world, after all.

  Bilbo Baggins : Ah... thank goodness!

• Gandalf the Grey : This is a map of Lonely Mountain, presented to me 100 years ago by your father.

  Thorin : Why wasn't it given to me, the rightful heir?

  Gandalf the Grey : I have chosen my own time to give it to you.

  Bilbo Baggins : Oh, I do love maps! I have quite a collection of them.

  Thorin : Bah! I remember the mountain well enough without it.

  Gandalf the Grey : Indeed. And how do you intend to enter Smaug's chambers? Through the front gate? As a houseguest? You would be ashes before you took your seventh step.

• Gandalf the Grey : Bilbo Baggins?

  Bilbo Baggins : Uh... yes?

  Gandalf the Grey : I am looking to hire a burglar.

  Bilbo Baggins : Burglar? I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place.

  Gandalf the Grey : You mean you do not wish to share a grand adventure?

  Bilbo Baggins : Dear me, no. We Hobbits are plain quiet folk. Adventures make one late for dinner

  Gandalf the Grey : [Lighting and thunder strikes]  Enough! I am Gandalf... and Gandalf means ME.

• [Thorin has just finished explaining the story of Smaug and Lonely Mountain] 

  Bilbo Baggins : So this is why you're here? To help you reclaim the gold?

  Gandalf the Grey : None other.

  [Bilbo squeals and faints] 

• [last lines] 

  Gandalf the Grey : Oh, Bilbo Baggins! If you really understood that ring, as someday members of your family not yet born will, then you'd realise that this story has not ended, but is only beginning.

• Gandalf the Grey : Your story, Bilbo, has the *ring* of truth. Yes, it *rings* true. You need say no more.

• Gandalf the Grey : Now, now, I am already late because of bothering with you people.

• Bilbo Baggins : What is this "burglar" business?

  Gandalf the Grey : If you prefer, you can say "expert treasure hunter".

• Gandalf the Grey : [to the trolls]  Dawn take you and be stone to you!