Arthurian Quote by Virginia Chandler

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books…

— Sean Astin

I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.

— Nathan Kress

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

I read all of the books by Tolkien, including 'The Hobbit,' when I was in my twenties, and his deep love of nature and…

— Howard Shore

When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio…

— Nick Offerman

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

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

— Edward Abbey

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

— Elijah Wood

I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

— Anna Kendrick

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

For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous…

— Ian Mckellen