Ian Holm credited as playing...
Bilbo
- 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.
- [holding up a mail shirt]
- Bilbo: Here's a pretty thing: Mithril. As light as a feather, and as hard as dragon-scales.
- 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: I've thought of an ending for my book - "And he lived happily ever after... to the end of his days."
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- Bilbo: My dear Bagginses and Boffins...... Tooks and Brandybucks...... Grubbs, Chubbs...... Hornblowers...... Bolgers...... Bracegirdles...... and Proudfoots. Today is my 111th birthday! But alas, eleventh-one years is far too short a time to live among...... such excellent and admirable Hobbits. 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. I have things to do. I've put this off for far too long. I regret to announce this is the end! I'm going now. I bid you all a very fond farewell. Goodbye.