“He hated it and loved it, as he hated and loved himself. He could not get rid of it. He had no… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity… — Dean O'Gorman Copy Share Image
If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share… — Lord Of The Rings Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“Just a plain hobbit you look,’ said Bilbo. ‘But there is more about you now than appears on the surface. Good luck… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In the common tongue it reads One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You'll live to regret it, young fellow! Why didn't you go too? You don't belong here; you're no Baggins—you—you're a Brandybuck!' 'Did… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Gollum said nothing to them, until he had drunk deeply and washed himself in the stream. Then he came up to them,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At last reluctantly Gandalf himself took a hand. Picking up a faggot he held it aloft for a moment, and then with… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But I have so little of any of these things! You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?" "No!"… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“By Elbereth and Lúthien the Fair,’ said Frodo with a last effort, lifting up his sword, ‘you shall have neither the Ring… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The yells and yammering, croaking, gibbering and jabbering, howls and growls and curses, shrieking and shrinking that followed were beyond description. Several… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum… — Mandy Broughton Copy Share Image
There is one other who knew Bilbo had the Ring. I looked everywhere for the creature Gollum, but the enemy found him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I read 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' when I was in middle school. But it was the films which… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A shrill cry rang out in the night; and he felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Frodo: We're friends of Gandalf the Grey, can you tell him we've arrived? Barliman Butterbur: Gandalf? Gandalf... Oh, yes, I remember! Elderly… — Lord Of The Rings Copy Share Image
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I,… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
“Then Frodo stirred and spoke with a clear voice, indeed with a voice clearer and more powerful than Sam had ever heard… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Always after a defeat and a respite," says Gandalf, "the shadow takes another shape and grows again." "I wish it need not… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Gandalf for certain this time,” he thought as he puffed along the passage. But it was not. It was two more dwarves,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“the only thing I wanted was to walk with Frodo into Mordor. Because if I could live for a little while inside… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12… — Conan Stevens Copy Share Image
If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
