“But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good tilled earth.” — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
Tolkien offers sympathy, surrender, friendship and, most of all, forgiveness. — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy? — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up. — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre. — William Kircher Copy Share Image
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.” —J. R. R. TOLKIEN, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
When I told my mom I was going to audition for 'The Hobbit,' she said, 'Well, you've always loved Tolkien.' And she… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make… — John Howe 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
I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old… — Patrick Rothfuss 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
“Many of the most popular children's stories have their roots in tales invented for particular children, and this casual, often serendipitous, approach… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“As a lord was held for the strength of his body and stoutness of heart. Much lore he learned, and loved wisdom… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One… — John Rogers Copy Share Image
Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir.… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it,… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“There were rockets like a flock of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. There were green trees with trunks of dark smoke:… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Hullo!” said Merry. “So that’s what is bothering you? Now, Pippin my lad, don’t forget Gildor’s saying—the one Sam used to quote:… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Order is the Shire of Tolkien’s hobbits: peaceful, productive and safely inhabitable, even by the naive. Chaos is the underground kingdom of… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The impulse is being called reactionary now, but lovers of Middle-earth want to go there. I would myself, like a shot. For… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“It is not possible even at great length to “pot” The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two … It… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been… — Tolkien Copy Share Image
