About Quote by John Rhys-Davies

There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.

— Ian Mckellen

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…

— Christopher Tolkien

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

— Richard Armitage

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…

— Sean Astin

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…

— Jo Walton

For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

— 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…

— George R. R. Martin

One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything -…

— Luke Evans

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in…

— Andy Serkis

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

— Elijah Wood

Recently I read that half the world or more has read 'The Lord of The Rings,' but then I found out that something like…

— Andy Serkis