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"The Hobbit Habit" - Time Magazine - July 15, 1996
Holden Caulfield is a moldy fig; the Lord of the Flies is swatted. This year, the unquestioned literary god on college campuses is a three-foot-high creature with long curly hair on his feet, a passion for six vast meals a day, and the improbable name of Frodo Baggins.
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"An Unexpected Party" - Christianity Today - Spring 2003
Perhaps the reason The Lord of the Rings has been popular with so many of such different backgrounds is as simple as this: it is, first and last, a great story. Its themes--friendship, choice, power, nature, machines, loss, salvation--are not of one time, but for all time.
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A.E. Cherryman on The Fellowship of the Ring - Truth - August 6, 1954
"It is an amazing piece of work... He has added something, not only to the world's literature, but to its history."
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Aragorn
"With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!"
From The Two Towers
Aragorn
"Look, my friends! Here's a pretty hobbit skin to wrap an elven princeling in."
From The Fellowship of the Ring
Aragorn
"I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself."
From The Return of the King
Aragorn
"I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn. If by life, or death, I can save you I will."
From The Two Towers
Bert the Troll - The Hobbit, Chapter 2
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer."
From The Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins
"Thag you very buch."
From The Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
From The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo Baggins
"Confusticate and bebother these dwarves..."
From The Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins - The Hobbit, Chapter 1
"Confustigate and bebother these dwarves!"
From The Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins - The Hobbit, Chapter 2
"Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire with the kettle just beginning to sing!"
From The Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit - Chapter 1
"What on earth did I ask him to tea for!"
From The Hobbit
Boromir
"Then let us start as soon as it is light tomorrow, if we can. The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears."
From The Fellowship of the Ring
Boromir
"Loud and clear it sounds in the valleys of the hills. Then let the foes of Gondor flee!"
From The Fellowship of the Ring
Boromir
"For though I do not ask for aid, we need it."
From The Fellowship of the Ring
Brian Sibley in Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey
Two names were, at various times, in the offing for the role of Boromir: Bruce Willis, allegedly a fan of The Lord of the Rings, was mentioned but never approached; while Liam Neeson was sent the script to read but passed.
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Brian Sibley in Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey
As filming progressed, the number of units working grew and more people were drafted in to 'direct' under Peter's supervision until, at one point, no less than seven film crews would be shooting scenes for The Lord of the Rings at the same time.
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Brian Sibley in Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey
There was another of what Peter now calls their 'often misguided Hollywood moments' that originally provided an action-packed conclusion to The Fellowship of the Ring. The sequence had Frodo and Sam paddling down the River Anduin in the Elven boat when an Uruk bursts up from under the water, lurches into the boat, grabbing at Frodo, who vainly tries to defend himself with the paddle. Seeing the Ring on the chain around Frodo's neck, the Uruk seizes it and drags the struggling Frodo overboard and down to the bottom of the riverbed. Following a terrific underwater struggle, Frodo manages to kick himself free, is helped back into the boat by Sam and the boat is carried away by the Great River towards the second film!
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