Richard C. Armitage Quotes

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

Tolkien didn't just write 'The Hobbit,' he created a whole world.

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

'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 want to live in Middle-earth, actually.

There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters.

I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.'

Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.

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 profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.

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

They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.

If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

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 have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

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

I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

'Lord of the Rings' was my jam. I was so depressed when I realized that I couldn't live in Middle-earth. And I was so sad when I was eleven and didn't get a letter from Hogwarts saying that I was going to be a wizard!

I loved 'Lord of the Rings,' growing up, so I always wanted to play a wizard with a staff.