The Lord of the Rings Quotes
Fantasy books, Works by J. R. R. Tolkien, English novels
Top Quotes
“The Hobbit”
“Oh, fuck, not another elf!”
“There are very few works of genius in recent literature. This is one."”
“Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the mid-20th century.”
“Wikiquote: The Two Towers”
“Wikiquote: The Return of the King”
“Wikiquote: The Fellowship of the Ring”
“Tolkien's Middle-earth gleams with the light of an ancient hope: peace between peoples, and with nature, and before the unknown.”
“I wonder how could he have been able to invent all this stuff. It feels more like Tolkien discovered some sort of long-lost scrolls.”
“The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.”
“The Silmarillion
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“As we read we find ourselves sharing [the characters'] burden; when we have finished, we return to our own life not relaxed but fortified.”
“In the highest and most complimentary sense, this is escapist fiction at its finest, yet at the same time it has profound relevance to our troubled age."”
“[Lord of the Rings] is ... a piece of literature, ... and not real history. ... Its economics, science, artefacts, religion, and philosophy are defective, or at least sketchy.”
“[The Lord of the Rings] can be approached from many angles, but I have always considered it also as a gallery of characters, each facing life, death, and fate differently.”
“J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy remains the ultimate quest, the ultimate battle between good and evil, the ultimate chronicle of stewardship of the earth. Endlessly imitated, it never has been surpassed.”
“The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them.”