Capitalism Quote by Bradley J. Birzer

“No ideologues, not even religious ones, are going to be happy with Tolkien, unless they manage it by misreading him. For like all great…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

— Liz Williams

“Tolkien later lamented, "The most improper job of any man ... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only aspiration that…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“The impulse is being called reactionary now, but lovers of Middle-earth want to go there. I would myself, like a shot. For in the…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need…

— Emil Cioran

“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a…

— Tom Hiddleston

“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs,…

— Emil Cioran

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

— Quentin S. Crisp

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

— George R. R. Martin

“For Tolkien, Catholicism was not an opinion to which one subscribed but a reality to which one submitted. Quite simply, pseudo-psychology aside, Tolkien remained…

— Joseph Pearce

“(Referring to an obsession with Tolkien's Middle Earth): I meet a beautiful American heiress, I like her, she likes me . . . and…

— S.M. Stirling