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The Lark Ascending";
There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
Neverland!" CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.
Tolkien didn't just write 'The Hobbit,' he created a whole world.
The Three Musketeers - as
Tolkien helped Lewis to realise that the problem lay not in Lewis's rational failure to understand the theory, but in his imaginative failure to grasp its significance. The issue was not primarily about truth, but about meaning. When
In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North, and the Elves of the West coming back to Middle-earth made war upon him to regain the Silmarils which he had stolen; and the fathers of Men aided the Elves.
Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.
Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.
I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
The Divine Comedy.
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The Ring 1)
In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?
As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much he researched and how much he based his stories and characters on mythology of various types. He was very deep and in many ways a genius.
'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters.
Hodor, said Hodor. Maester
Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.
I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.
'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'
Once upon a midnight dreary
Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
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.
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.
I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.
Autumn of the Patriarch,
Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men ...
(The Everlasting No)
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.
Silenus or Nymphs and
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.
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.
Hush! Take no notice!" - Gandalf
Yule - Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner - of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
Wicked Witch of the West
Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
Of course it was Hamlet - The uncle kills the father, and the son has to avenge his father's death. So then we decided it was going to be Hamlet with lions." In that pivotal moment, the film got the green light.
The call of sedona
I do like fantasy films.
This is like some Lord of the Rings shit! We're about to enter Mordor!
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.
The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream!
I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I wrote. I was fascinated by the Eddas, the Norse and Icelandic legends, Odin on the world tree.
The ring! exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.
The Last Unicorn
a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor. We
Aragorn, the greatest traveller and huntsman of this age of the world. Together
Brothers Karamazov
Carrying money, food and the seal ring of Bel-ka-Trazet, set out alone for Lak. BOOK VI
Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand.
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 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.
Narnia, held captive by the "post-Christian" Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber.
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking at the film as if it happened in another planet and that allowed me even more freedom.
The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get to grips with it.
Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien
'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.
Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.
'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.
For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn.
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.
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M. Myriel
Elrond," Bruce said. "The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring."
"Jesus," Annie said. "None of you got laid in high school, did you?
It was a hot summer night, and I had the soundtrack to Disney's The Lion King blasting on my stereo. Tears actually began streaming down my face as I drove past the building. Here I was, the grown-up version of that wide-eyed eight-year-old at Disneyland. I had finally arrived. I was an Imagineer.
One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
Hodor?"
"Hodor.
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell
The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams.
For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!
Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
Over the wine-dark sea.
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
enthralled with the film as I
XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
Eriskigal, or as some say it, Erishkigal, is Morgan le Fay, Kali, Persephone, and Hel.'
'She's Hel all right,' Jarrah muttered.
And Aragorn the King Elessar wedded Arwen Undomiel in the City of the Kings upon the day of Midsummer, and the tale of their long waiting and labours was come to fulfillment.
Like his fellow genius, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis has redefined the nature of fantasy, adding richness beauty, and dimension ... In our times, every fantasy realm must be measured in comparison with Narnia.
Birth of a Nation
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry
A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.
Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
Oblivion. It is what I am always looking for.
Thor might be god of strength and war, Odin of wisdom, but he sometimes wondered if it wasn't Loki, the trickster god, who stood behind what unfolded. A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom. And hadn't the world proved to be a bitter joke?