Quotes About The Book The Hobbit

#1. In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.

Andy Serkis

#2. I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

Marlo Morgan

#3. It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.

Peter Jackson

#4. The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.

Michelene Wandor

#5. He who hate royality, does not belong to royal family.

Hamzat Haruna Ribah

#6. They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.

Christopher Tolkien

#7. I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

Dean Kamen

#8. If you don't set a very big, aggressive goal, you're never going to get anywhere.

Wyc Grousbeck

#9. People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.

Andy Serkis

#10. Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

Ndamukong Suh

#11. Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly ...

Anne Sexton

#12. Yeah, well, what are you going to teach me next ... how to take over the world?" I asked sarcastically.
"Good idea!" Sampson exclaimed a little too enthusiastically.
"No, bad idea!" I stressed.
"See? You are learning," Sampson said.

Jennifer Priester

#13. The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.

Ian McKellen

#14. My favorite group growing up was 'The Hobbit.' It was the first book I actually finished. One of those adventure things that takes you to that land and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I am not a huge book reader.

Luke Mitchell

#15. I am a Hobbit, like I said at the beginning of the book. That doesn't mean that at times, many times, I wasn't a Dwarf, an Orc, even a bit Gollum-ish or Wraith-ish. But deep down, what I want to be is a Hobbit. Do you?

Steve Bivans

#16. We have an agreement," she explained. "I watch nothing to do with a hobbit, Vulcan, or comic book hero, and in return, Dexter's not forced to sit through a foreign romance, a BBC production, or one my classic films.

Kristin Billerbeck

#17. 'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Evangeline Lilly

#18. All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.

John Howe

#19. 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.

Evangeline Lilly

#20. Naodyma isn't exactly a one-temple town, you know.

Andrew Ashling

#21. I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was ... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.

Evangeline Lilly

#22. 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.

Peter Jackson

#23. There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

Ernest Mandel

#24. You don't need to have big hairy feet to read The Hobbit, why should you be gay to read a gay book?

Adriano Bulla

#25. such as the fact that Strider was called Trotter until a very late stage in the writing of the book; that Trotter was at one time a hobbit, so named because he wore wooden shoes; that

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

Brandon Sanderson

#27. Every death of those you love is the death also of so many shared memories and understanding, of a now irretrievable part of your own life.

Richard Flanagan

#28. 'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.

Nigel Lythgoe

#29. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

Gene Wolfe