Analogies Quote by Viggo Mortensen

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to…

— Peter Jackson

Even the implication that The Lord of the Rings is a mythic story about Western, white supremacy - regardless of the political leanings of…

— Viggo Mortensen

“The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being…

— C.S. Lewis

Tolkien fans reacted so strongly to 'Lord Of The Rings' as a franchise because it stayed true; the heart of it was true to…

— William Kircher

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

— Sarah Zettel

“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

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are…

— Shawn Ashmore

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