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Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Martin Freeman, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, and Luke Evans in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

Martin Freeman: Bilbo

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Martin Freeman credited as playing...

Bilbo

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Quotes21

  • Gandalf: You've changed, Bilbo Baggins. You're not the same Hobbit as the one who left the Shire...
  • Bilbo Baggins: I was going to tell you... I found something in the Goblin tunnels.
  • Gandalf: Found what? What did you find?
  • Bilbo Baggins: [pause]
  • Bilbo Baggins: My courage.
  • Gandalf: Good... well, that's good. You'll need it.
  • Bilbo Baggins: I did not come to steal from you, O Smaug the Unassessably Wealthy. I merely wanted to gaze upon your magnificence, to see if you really were as great as the old tales say. I did not believe them.
  • Smaug: [strikes a pose] And do you, NOW?
  • Bilbo Baggins: Truly, tales and songs fall utterly short of your enormity, O Smaug the Stupendous...
  • Smaug: Do you think flattery will keep you alive?
  • Bilbo Baggins: No, no...
  • Smaug: No, indeed!
  • [last lines]
  • [Smaug takes off to attack Lake Town]
  • Bilbo Baggins: What have we done?
  • Smaug: You seem familiar with my name, but I don't remember smelling your kind before. Who are you and where do you come from, may I ask?
  • Bilbo Baggins: I come from under the hill...
  • Smaug: Underhill?
  • Bilbo Baggins: ...and under hills and over hills my paths lead. And through the air! I am he who walks unseen!
  • Smaug: Impressive. What else do you claim to be?
  • [leans forward to smell Bilbo]
  • Bilbo Baggins: L-Luck-Wearer... R-Riddle-Maker...
  • Smaug: Lovely titles... Go on.
  • Bilbo Baggins: Barrel-Rider!
  • Smaug: Barrels! Now that is interesting!
  • Smaug: You think you can deceive me, Barrel-Rider? You have come from Lake Town! This is some sort of scheme hatched between these filthy dwarves and those miserable tub-trading Lakemen, those snivelling cowards with their Longbows and Black Arrows! Perhaps it is time I paid them a visit!
  • Bilbo Baggins: Oh, no... This isn't their fault! Wait! You can not go to Lake Town!
  • Smaug: You care about them, do you? Good! Then you can watch them DIE!
  • [observes a carving of the Arkenstone]
  • Bilbo Baggins: What's that?
  • Balin: That is the Arkenstone.
  • Bilbo Baggins: And what is it?
  • Thorin Oakenshield: That, Master Burglar, is why you are here.
  • [Bilbo observes a bare patch on Smaug's chest]
  • Bilbo Baggins: So it is true, the Black Arrow found its mark...
  • Smaug: What did you say?
  • [gutting an infant spider that touched his ring]
  • Bilbo Baggins: MINE!
  • [slowly realizes what he has done]
  • Smaug: It's Oakenshield. That filthy Dwarvish usurper! He sent you in here for the Arkenstone, didn't he?
  • Bilbo Baggins: No no no no no, I have no idea what you're talking about...
  • Smaug: Don't bother denying it! I guessed his foul purpose some time ago! But it matters not. Oakenshield's quest will fail. A darkness is coming. It will spread to every corner of the land!
  • Smaug: You are being used, Thief in the Shadows. You were only ever a means to an end. The coward Oakenshield has weighed the value of your life and found it worth nothing...
  • Bilbo Baggins: No. No! You're lying!
  • [Bilbo stabs a spider, who screams of it stinging]
  • Bilbo Baggins: Sting... That's a good name!
  • Smaug: And what about your little dwarf friends? Where are they hiding?
  • Bilbo Baggins: Dwarves... No. No dwarves here. You've got that all wrong.
  • Smaug: Oh, I don't think so, Barrel-Rider! They sent you in here to do their dirty work, while they skulk about outside!
  • Bilbo Baggins: Truly, you are mistaken, O Smaug Chiefest and Greatest of All Calamities...
  • Smaug: You have nice manners for a thief, and a LIAR! I know the smell and taste of dwarves, no one better!
  • Thorin Oakenshield: [after putting in the key and opening the door] Erebor.
  • Balin: [In tears] Thorin.
  • Thorin Oakenshield: I know these walls. These halls. This stone. Do you remember it Balin? Chambers filled with golden light.
  • Balin: I remember.
  • Gloin: [Reading the Dwarvish writing in the stone] Herein lies the 7th kingdom of Durin's folk. May the heart of the mountain unite all dwarves in defense of this home.
  • Balin: The throne of the king.
  • Bilbo Baggins: [Observing the carving] And what's that, above it?
  • Balin: The arkenstone.
  • Bilbo Baggins: And what's that?
  • Thorin Oakenshield: That, Master Burglar, is why you are here.
  • Bilbo Baggins: You do know we're one short; where's Bofur?
  • Thorin Oakenshield: If he's not here, we leave him behind.
  • Balin: We have to, if we're to find the door before nightfall. We can risk no more delays.
  • [Smaug is about to kill Thorin]
  • Thorin Oakenshield: [to Bilbo] NOW!
  • Bilbo Baggins: [jumping and grabbing the dwarvian lever] Argh!
  • [water spews out of the spouts]
  • Smaug: [roars; ready to breath fire] Arrgh...
  • [the water hits Smaug, cooling him off and distinguishing the fire in his lungs]
  • Smaug: [searching for the invisible Bilbo; menacingly] Well... Thief! I can smell you... I can hear your breath, I can feel your breath... Where-Are-You?
  • [comes really close to Bilbo, who begins to lose his nerve]
  • Smaug: Where are you?
  • [Out of fright, Bilbo takes off running. Smaug chases after him. Bilbo hides behind one of the columns]
  • Smaug: [calmly] Come now... Don't be shy. Step into the light.
  • [creeps towards Bilbo's hiding place]
  • Smaug: There is something you carry... Something made of gold. Except only much... more... Precious...
  • [Bilbo is assaulted by Sauron's eye and quickly takes the ring off. He sees Smaug's piercing eye in front of him. Bilbo gasps, startled]
  • Smaug: There you are... thief in the shadows.
  • Bilbo Baggins: I-I didn't come to steal, Smaug the inaccessibly wealthy. I only wanted to gaze upon your magnificence, and what the old tales say is true.
  • [whimpers]
  • Bilbo Baggins: But I did not believe them!
  • [Smaug fluidly slinks away and does a pose of grandiose]
  • Smaug: [proudly; his voice resonating] And DO YOU NOW?
  • Bilbo Baggins: [in awe] Yes... Yes, what the stories said is true.
  • Bilbo Baggins: [whispering] Everyone, climb into the barrels! Quickly!
  • Dwalin: Are you mad? They'll find us!
  • Bilbo Baggins: No, no they won't, I promise you. Please, please, you must trust me.
  • [silence]
  • Thorin Oakenshield: Do as he says.
  • [They do so, and Bilbo does a head count]
  • Bofur: [pokes his head out] What do we do now?
  • [All the dwarves poke their heads out]
  • Bilbo Baggins: Hold your breath.
  • Bofur: Hold me breath? What do you mean...?
  • [All the dwarves yell as Bilbo pulls the lever opening the trap door, spilling the barrels into the river]
  • [Thorin's Company has reached Erebor; they gaze out at a distant dilapidated city]
  • Bilbo Baggins: What is this place?
  • Balin: It was once the City of Dale. Now it is a ruin. The Desolation of Smaug.
  • Thorin Oakenshield: [looks to the sky] The sun will soon reach midday. We must find the hidden door into the Mountain before it sets. This way!
  • [walks away]
  • Bilbo Baggins: Wait!
  • [Thorin stops to look at him]
  • Bilbo Baggins: Is this... the overlook? Gandalf said to meet him here. On no account were we to...
  • Thorin Oakenshield: Do you see him? We have no time to wait upon the wizard. We're on our own. Come!
  • [Thorin leads the Company away; Bilbo looks back at Dale in worry, then follows]
  • Bilbo Baggins: This forest... feels... sick, as if a disease lies upon it. Is there no way around?
  • Gandalf the Grey: Not unless we go 200 miles north or twice that distance... south.
  • Dori: Look, a tobacco pouch. There's dwarves in these woods.
  • Bofur: Dwarves from the Blue Mountains, no less. This is exactly the same as mine.
  • Bilbo Baggins: Because it *is* yours, you understand? We're going around in circles. We are lost!
  • Thorin Oakenshield: We're not lost. We keep heading east.
  • Oin: But which way *is* east?

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