Middle Earth Quotes - Page 3

• One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Earth, Pleasure, Middle

  Source: collider.com

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• I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.

  Ben Affleck

  Character, Boston, Would Be

  "The Hollywood Education of Ben Affleck, from ‘Chasing Amy,’ ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Shakespeare’ to his Second Act and ‘Argo’". Interview with Leonard Maltin, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too.

  Coeur de pirate

  Cities, Earth, Middle

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• My God! Middle Earth does exist!

  Elijah Wood

  Doe, Earth, Middle

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• I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Imagination, Age

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

  John Boorman

  Trying, Different, World

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• After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.

  Ysabeau S. Wilce

  Past, Research, World

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• Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Our World, Different, Earth

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• One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving Up, Glowing, Evil

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• 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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Marching On, Mountain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.536, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mistake, Ocean, Thinking

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• 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?'

  Sean Astin

  Book, Missing, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no sex in Middle Earth.

  Ian Mckellen

  Sex, Earth, Middle

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