Amazing Quote by Varg Vikernes

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

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

“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 fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the…

— Samantha Shannon

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

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each…

— Philip Pullman

Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn…

— Michael Portillo

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

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

— David Brin

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

— Richard Armitage

“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

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