Catholic Quote by Joseph Pearce

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“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

I really respect and admire Tolkien. I think he was the most honest of the Romantics.

— David Brin

“Tolkien believed doggedly in the old-fashioned notion that the purpose of philology was to read literature and that literature couldn’t be properly studied without…

— Wyatt North

This might disappoint you somewhat, but I have to say my interest in Tolkien has faded dramatically over the years. His language skills are…

— Varg Vikernes

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

— Ian Mckellen

Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much he researched…

— Raymond Buckland

“Tolkien would play a crucial role in Lewis’s conversion to Christianity, while Lewis would be the decisive voice in persuading Tolkien to complete The…

— Joseph Loconte

“Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore the nature…

— Bradley J. Birzer

As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies…

— Viggo Mortensen

“The Gospel is the ultimate fairy-story, Tolkien concludes, because it contains "the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe.... There is no tale ever told…

— Ralph C. Wood

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…

— A. S. Byatt