Quotes about Tolkien

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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read T — Patricia Briggs, Fair Game
Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged marriage between th — Adam Gopnik
He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long a — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
What did I tell you? Something's happening!' cried Sam. '"The war's going well," said Shagrat; but Gorbag he wasn't so s — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . ( — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is p — J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that i — Philip Pullman
I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider — J.R.R. Tolkien
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' com — Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hop — J.R.R. Tolkien
Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shy — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Armageddon,' Sandy said. 'The final battle. The ultimate confrontation between good and evil. That's what armageddon is — George R.R. Martin
They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no sp — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dh — Karen Chance
And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice to my — N.K. Jemisin
... the reader is probably wondering that if Tolkien did indeed fashion two of his heroic characters from Catholic proph — E.A. Bucchianeri, Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies