Caught Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

— Ian Mckellen

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

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

— Alister E. McGrath

“When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about Tolkien…

— China Miéville

“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

As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth, and revise…

— Ross Douthat

“Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the…

— John Garth

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all…

— John Orloff

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