Book Quote by Evangeline Lilly

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

— Elijah Wood

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…

— George R. R. Martin

All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel…

— John Howe

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

— Martin Freeman

When I told my mom I was going to audition for 'The Hobbit,' she said, 'Well, you've always loved Tolkien.' And she was right.

— Richard Armitage

'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.

— Nigel Lythgoe

When I was a kid, we would travel to England in our car, from Germany, and listen to storybook tapes and one of them…

— Dominic Monaghan

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.

— Elijah Wood

My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority”

— Mental Floss

I read all of the books by Tolkien, including 'The Hobbit,' when I was in my twenties, and his deep love of nature and…

— Howard Shore

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the…

— Evangeline Lilly