Lord of the Rings Quotes

• Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Death
  • Natural
  • Human Story

• I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Knowledge
  • Story
  • Addition

• I'd love to go visit the 'Lord Of The Rings' set! That's something that we always want to do, but we don't ever have the time.

  

  Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
  • Time
  • Have
  • Visit

• The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Religion
  • Catholic
  • Imaginary

• The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Revision
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Catholic Work

• One writes such a story The Lord of the Rings not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Forgotten

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

  

  Len Wein
  • Done
  • Stuff
  • I Think

• I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Feel
  • Guilt
  • Lord of the Rings

• I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Experiences
  • Generations
  • I Loved

• 'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Film School