The Hobbit

of the old songs have turned out to be true, after a fashion!” said Bilbo.
    “Of course!” said Gandalf. “And why should not they prove true? Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had
     a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed
     by mere luck, just for your sole bene-fit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are
     only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”
    “Thank goodness!” said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar.

WORKS BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN
    The Hobbit
    Leaf by Niggle
    On Fairy-Stories
    Farmer Giles of Ham
    The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
    The Lord of the Rings
    The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
    The Road Goes Ever On (with Donald Swann)
    Smith of Wootton Major
    WORKS PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
    The Father Christmas Letters
    The Silmarillion
    Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
    Unfinished Tales
    The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
    Finn and Hengest
    Mr Bliss
    The Monsters and the Critics & Other Essays
    Roverandom
    The Children of Húrin
    The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
    THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH – BY CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
    I The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
    II The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
    III The Lays of Beleriand
    IV The Shaping of Middle-earth
    V The Lost Road and Other Writings
    VI The Return of the Shadow
    VII The Treason of Isengard
    VIII The War of the Ring
    IX Sauron Defeated
    X Morgoth’s Ring
    XI The War of the Jewels
    XII The Peoples of Middle-earth

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