J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin thing to do, I don't know what is.

I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'

I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.

There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'

'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it's tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

I'd got hobbits on my hands hadn't I?

The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies.

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

I would love to have played Gollum.

I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!'

I want to live in Middle-earth, actually.

I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.