Tolkien Quotes

53 quotes by 35 authors

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about… — Sean Astin
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of… — Orlando Bloom
I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his… — A. S. Byatt
But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy? — George R. R. Martin
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesnâ€™t ask the question:… — George R. R. Martin
I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog… — George R. R. Martin
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy… — George R. R. Martin
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for… — Ralph Bakshi
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf — Christopher Paolini
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey.… — Jo Walton
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the… — Billy Boyd
I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguousÂ world; it's like ours but different. — John Boorman
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a… — John Howe
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never… — Carl Barks
Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved… — N.D. Wilson
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an… — Ansen Dibell
I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek. — Richard Armitage
Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters. — Peter Kreeft
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time.… — Christopher Tolkien

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