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

— Richard Armitage

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J. R. R. Tolkien”

— David Baldacci

“When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.”

— Dennis Cooper

“Tolkien later lamented, "The most improper job of any man ... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority”

— Mental Floss

“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

“Lewis was unique in the academia of his day for championing (along with his good friend, J.R.R. Tolkien) children’s literature and fantasy novels as…

— Louis A. Markos

“Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ~”

— Penny Reid

“Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance,…

— Ernest Cline

“On Tolkien: "His fussiness threatened to overwhelm his creativity.”

— Alister E. McGrath

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

— John Rhys-Davies

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…

— Karen Chance