Top 99 Lord Of The Rings Quotes

Recently I read that half the world or more has read ‘The Lord of The Rings,’ but then I found out that something like 75 per cent of the world knows the ‘Tintin’ books.

I think ‘The Lord of the Rings’ holds perhaps a deeper place in people’s hearts than ‘The Hobbit’ the book does.

I hadn’t watched ‘Lord of the Rings’ – I’m gonna get so much flack for this, but I hadn’t watched ‘Lord of the Rings’ when I started watching ‘Game of Thrones.’

‘The Lord of the Rings,’ published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm’s Deep as the final sequence.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that’s the way they’re done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn’t until I was 13 and discovered the ‘Lord of the Rings’ that I learned to love reading.

I happen to be a huge ‘Lord of the Rings’ fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

In terms of the movie business, being in a ‘Lord of the Rings’ has given me more interesting options as work.

I actually watched ‘Lord of the Rings’ right when it came out, so maybe 2001 or 2002 or whenever that was. But I watched those movies, and I ended up loving them so much that I found every behind-the-scenes feature and every sort of ‘making-of’ clip they had.

‘Doctor Who’ is not as literary as ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ is – books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference… it’s more scholastic.

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

I don’t want to use the word ‘instinct,’ but when something good happens – something big or good in my life – I have this sensation that it was inevitable. Anything careerwise, ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘Rudy,’ or getting married. Which is weird, because you don’t ever want to be ungrateful for what you have.

The approach of ‘Game of Thrones’ is similar to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ in that it treats its source material almost like history, and it focuses as much on the human drama as it does on anything fantastical.

My first score for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, ‘The Fellowship of the Ring,’ was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.

I’m proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it’s a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.

‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Star Wars’ shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And ‘Lord of the Rings’ took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of ‘The Lord of the Rings.’

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin’s stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

I just turn on the TV and watch whatever is on, like ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Lord of the Rings.’

If you take ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult’s book.

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like ‘Lord of the Rings’ until they kick me out of Hollywood. I just want to do the biggest thing I can.

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered ‘The Hobbit.’ That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ series. And once I’d read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

I’d already started directing short films when we were doing ‘Lord of the Rings,’ then videogame projects.

It’s an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic – false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

When you see ‘Lord of the Rings,’ you want to feel like you’ve been dropped into it and that you’re part of it. You don’t want to be aware of how it’s being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

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.

Studio execs were like, ”Lord of the Rings!’ People want to see sword-and-dragon-type things!’ No, people just want to see great stories. Hollywood always takes the wrong lesson from successes.

A whole new career opened up for me when I was in ‘Lord Of The Rings’ and ‘Star Wars.’

The spirit of the four hobbits in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ I suppose I miss that.

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

I love ‘Lord of the Rings.’

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

After ‘The Fellowship of the Ring,’ the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be ‘Lord of the Rings’ as opposed to learning from ‘Lord of the Rings.’

I was so excited to audition for ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ I knew it was going to be huge. Maybe, by some small chance, Peter Jackson’s a ‘Star Trek Deep Space Nine’ fan.’

‘The Sword of Shannara’ is about two brothers who find themselves on an epic quest to save humanity. It borrows from ‘Lord of the Rings’ but is still original in its own right. I read it in three days, then reread it, then went out and found every single book Terry Brooks ever wrote, and read all those.

I’ve seen ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ about 25 times each, so I like all kinds of movies, but I’m drawn, as an actor, to dramas about humans living lives I can relate to.

A friend forced me to watch ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ and even though it was a fantastic movie, I could only watch one.

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.

I loved ‘Pan’s Labyrinth.’ It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love ‘Lord of the Rings’ as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It’s one of the most enjoyable things I’ve ever done, so emotional.

I love really epic films. I really like ‘The Princess Bride,’ ‘Lord of the Rings.’ I really like ‘Star Wars.’ I love ‘Harry Potter.’ I’m obsessed with ‘Harry Potter.’

I never dreamed in a million years that ‘The Lord of the Rings’ would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.

More than anything, I wanted to be Aragorn in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ and I wanted to be Lirael in the ‘Sabriel’ trilogy. The only way I was ever going to get to do that was act, so I tried.

‘Lord of the Rings’ was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

What Peter Jackson proved with ‘Lord Of The Rings’ movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things around, but as long as it was in the spirit of the storytelling, and because he made The Shire so real, the fans forgave him for the changes.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It’s an important part of epic literature.

Asking the director of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ to read my novel was exactly as terrifying as you’d think. I came this close to not doing it because I was so embarrassed. But he was so gracious about it.

I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That’s the kind of movies I want to make.

‘Star Wars’ or ‘The Lord of the Rings’ deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.

Doing some of the ‘Lord Of The Rings’ press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Even ‘Lord of the Rings’ had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It’s like, ‘Really?’

Because I was in the business of translating the ‘X-Men’ from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn’t get involved in anything I didn’t think was really going to be worth their while.

‘Lord of the Rings’ was 2001, 2002, and 2003, but Twitter didn’t start until 2007!

With ‘The Elder Scrolls’, you’re looking at a 25-year-running franchise. It has stood the test of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies becoming popular.

I read ‘the Hobbit’ at the age when you’re supposed to read it. I didn’t read ‘The Lord Of The Rings.’ My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read ‘the Hobbit,’ that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.

When I first did ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late ’60s, the film rights.

I love action-adventure-type films – mythical adventures like ‘Lord of the Rings’ or superhero films like ‘Batman.’

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.

I’d like to be Gandalf for a day – he’s so wise, he’s so powerful, and he’s so caring. I love Gandalf. When they remake ‘Lord of The Rings,’ maybe I’ll play it.

Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is intensely… landscaped. But ‘Discworld’ is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.

I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings.’

‘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!

One thing I’ve realized is that being a nerd has transformed. I like that it’s easier to read comic books and, like, ‘Lord of the Rings’ now. You don’t have to get punched in the chest in the gym locker room for that anymore.

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

Our daughter’s name Arwynn comes from Arwen in ‘Lord of the Rings’ because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another.

I think ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you’re in it.

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don’t know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

I first read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as an adolescent. It’s a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.

I would definitely line up for ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ I’m a huge ‘Lord of the Rings’ geek.

When I played Gollum in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn’t captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don’t bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

I read ‘The Hobbit’ but not a single one of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. I had to lie about this pretty much all through high school. I still say it apologetically.

If you read ‘Lord of the Rings’ and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you’re missing the whole point of the story. If children don’t have to be concerned about strangers because there’s no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you’re missing the point.

‘The Lord of the Rings,’ obviously, had a huge, huge impact on me. I read a lot of ‘Hardy Boys,’ also. I liked the equation, that it was always the same but a little bit different. There’s something comforting about those books.

Other than Peter Jackson doing ‘Lord of the Rings,’ I don’t get it when filmmakers follow up a movie with a sequel to the same movie. God bless ’em if they can be up for it, but that would drive me insane.

Orlando’s a really cool guy. They hired him for ‘Lord of the Rings’ out of drama school. He’s very new at this still and doesn’t have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we’ve tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.

I’m a big fan of the ‘Harry Potter’ movies and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ films.

I read ‘The Hobbit’ when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer ‘The Hobbit.’

I do find it slightly offensive that everyone thinks that every New Zealander starred in either ‘Lord of the Rings’ or ‘The Hobbit.’

Orlando is such a kind person. He’s so generous and one of us, ‘us’ meaning a theater person. What a lot of people don’t know about him is that, before ‘Lord of the Rings,’ he went to theater school like a lot of us. He is just really sweet and hard working.

The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse – from both the King James Bible and ‘The Lord of the Rings.’

All my favorite books and movies are franchises like ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Lord of the Rings,’ so that was always the dream, that maybe I’ll get to write a series of my own.

I’d never heard of the ‘Lord of the Rings’, actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, ‘Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?’

When Peter Jackson made the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn’t read Tolkien wouldn’t go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.

I think Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens have very carefully plotted ‘The Hobbit’ out so that it does feel like the starting point for ‘The Lord of the Rings.’

I would love to live in ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ J. R. R. Tolkien’s world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures – not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo’s quest.

One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second ‘Lord of the Rings’ film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It’s daft.

I like ‘The Lord of The Rings’ and ninja swords.

To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as ‘Lord of the Rings’ is an epic. But ‘The Hobbit’ isn’t an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it’s full of adventures and excitement, they’re on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

Around the time of ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

I feel like I’m close to all the ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Goonies’ people, but I’m kind of sequestered with my wife and kids. But as soon as there’s some reason for all of us to be together, it’s like no time has passed, lots of hugs.

I can remember watching ‘Lord of the Rings’ and being truly regretful that I wasn’t a being in that world.

My family’s a huge fan of ‘Lord of the Rings.’ My dad probably preaches from ‘Lord of the Rings’ as much as he does the Bible.

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

I know stuff about ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Star Wars,’ but ‘Star Trek,’ I don’t know.