Funniest lines in Middle-Earth

[mark12_30]

Recently I read The Hobbit out loud, and what we found very funny was how important the food was to Bilbo and the dwarves, and how it was always being sabotaged-- getting rained on, or dunked in rivers, or lost, or stolen by goblins or just plain run-out-of in Mirkwood; and how often Bilbo was, therefore, HUNGRY. Any description of a catastrophe always ended with, "And of course" (something bad happened to the food.)

A few of Frodo's wonderful lines: "I don't carry water in my pockets."
In Cirith Ungol: "Have you inquired about Inns along the way?"

Boromir's line about Rauros: "What shall we do then, leap down the falls and land in the marshes?" (Boromir had several funny lines.)

Gimli to Merry and Pippin at Isengard: "And here we find you sitting in the middle of dinner, and smoking. Smoking! Where did you get the pipe weed, you villians?"

[ August 15, 2002: Message edited by: mark12_30 ]