“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them.”

The pines were roaring on the height,
The winds were moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches blazed with light. 

“What has roots as nobody sees,
 Is taller than trees,
    Up, up it goes,
    and yet never grows?” 

Bifur, Balin, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Dwalin, Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Ori, Nori, and Thorin Oakenshield

“What do you mean? Do you mean to wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”