(18 quotes found)
“Tolkien has the right elements of snobbery and escapism to make it a huge success. John Buchan for teenagers. A compendium of disguised bigotry and English high church snobbery. I hate it for exactly those qualities which made it so popular. It's a lullaby. Not sure we need lullabies at the moment. Unless we're all just going to give up, go to sleep and wake up dead.”
Michael Moorcock
“I tried reading The Lord of the Rings books. I got about fifty pages in... I got tired of reading the word "fortnight". It was people moving along the map, and complex details about this map, and stopping and camping, and moving around, and staying for a fortnight here, and a fortnight... And I was like: 'You know, I need to go out, and play outside. I need to go feel the sunshine on my face, make friends, uhm, meet a nice girl...'”
Mike Stoklasa
“The Hobbit is based on an earlier, shorter book, written by legendary author J.K. Rowling. This makes The Hobbit technically a prequel, and thus pointless.”
“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“A star shone at the hour of our meeting.”
“The finest rockets ever seen: they burst instars of blue and green, or after thunder golden showers came falling like a rain of flowers.”
Samwise Gamgee Lord of the Rings
“Ai! laurie lantar lassi sūrinen inyalemīne rāmar aldaron inyali ettulielle turme mārien anduniesse la mīruvōrion Varda telūmen falmar kīrien laurealassion ōmar mailinon.”
“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
