#the ring

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#doing #else #i #interested #lord

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. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#dune #everyone #fiction #going #lifetime

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. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#done #experience #first #had #how

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#all-time #answer #ask #book #different

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.' ↗

— Zac Efron

#batman #films #i #i love #like

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

#actually #am #books #bookstore #cow

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

— Ralph Bakshi

#had #how #i #jackson #know

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. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#cool guy #drama #drama school #each #equal

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

— Kevin J. Anderson

#grand #important #literature #lord #lord of the rings

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. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else