Thorin's Quotes

#1. It was the Arkenstone, the Heart of the Mountain. So Bilbo guessed from Thorin's description; but indeed there could not be two such gems, even in so marvellous a hoard, even in all the world.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. He caught hold of Tom's leg - as well as he could, it was thick as a young tree-trunk - but he was sent spinning up into the top of some bushes, when Tom kicked the sparks up in Thorin's face.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. Back now to the mountain!" cried Thorin. "We have little time to lose." "And little food to use!" cried Bilbo, always practical on such points. In any case he felt that the adventure was, properly speaking, over with the death of the dragon.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.'

Richard C. Armitage

#8. If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain's son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer," he said crossly, "say so at once and have done!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. My mind does not change with the rising and setting of a few suns

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to.

Rossana Condoleo

#11. I think the phone is a really personal device in a lot of ways. If you drop your phone or lose it there's a moment of panic. On the other hand there's a lot of control that users have.

Susan Wojcicki

#12. Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

Aeschylus

#13. The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.

William Barclay

#14. Failures however, are the stuff of scrutiny. And so we often erect memorials over our failures while our successes drift into the foggy backwaters of our mind.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils
that has been more than any baggins deserves.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Education is the most effective form of rebellion.

Thorin

#17. There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

Thomas Sowell

#18. Cheer up Thorin and Company! This is your expedition after all. Think of the treasure at the end, and forget the forest and the dragon, at any rate until tomorrow morning!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

#21. What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

Nikki Sixx

#22. There indeed lay Thorin Oakenshield, wounded with many wounds ...

J.R.R. Tolkien

#23. Now what on earth or under it has happened?" said Thorin. "Certainly not the dragon, or he would not go on squeaking.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. This is the Arkenstone of Thrain," said Bilbo, "the Heart of the Mountain; and it is also the heart of Thorin.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#25. Dwarves are not heroes, but a 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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. I'd rather live in the U.S. than Europe.

Solange Knowles

#27. If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Henry Rollins

#28. Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist, the elvish sword that had been taken from Thorin in captivity. It is said in songs that it gleamed ever in the dark if foes approached, and the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

J.R.R. Tolkien

#30. And maybe there had been enough tears, anyway. Which is not to say there wouldn't be more.

Stephen King

#31. Thorin, of course, was really the grandson of the King under the Mountain, and there is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#32. Love is an act; the act of loving, the act of compassionate and the act of forgiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority.

Thorin

#34. I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

Neill Blomkamp

#35. This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.

Anthony Doerr

#36. She'll have to help him with the bonus poops, and Tommy Swinden, and all the other little things that Max can't do because he lives so much of his life inside. That big, beautigul inside that once imagined me.

Matthew Dicks

#37. No!" said Thorin. "There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!" Then

J.R.R. Tolkien

#38. Always be true to yourself regardless of the consequences. I assure you not doing so has even greater consequences.

Thorin