Tolkien Quotes

53 Tolkien quotes by 35 unique authors

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able… — David Selby
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy.… — Patrick Rothfuss
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien. — Ralph Bakshi
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go… — George R. R. Martin
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound… — George R. R. Martin
My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She… — Rick Riordan
There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage,… — Salman Rushdie
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the… — C.S. Lewis
Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you… — Karen Chance
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other.… — Philip Pullman
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he… — Philip Pullman
Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there… — David Eddings
Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this… — Jo Walton
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by… — C.S. Lewis
What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien. — Patricia Briggs
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. — George R. R. Martin
I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been… — George R. R. Martin
For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives… — Stephen R. Donaldson
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 is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene. — Ian Mckellen
I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds. — Richard Armitage
I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until… — Richard Armitage
I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School… — Graeme Base

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