How to pronounce “tolkien” in English

Tolkien.

And Tolkien did a version of it.

This is not a Tolkien fairy tale.

There's the Tolkien angle, where you accumulate this enormous worldbuilding document that is full of all your random ideas for things, and some of them connect and some of them don't.

Loved sci-fi-- JRR Tolkien, of course.

That was Tolkien that said that most beautiful word was cellar door, and of course he didn't mean cellar door, he meant,

This wasn't Tolkien, these weren't orcs and trolls and giant spiders and whatever else-- evil creatures that you were free to commit genocide

Anyway those Tolkien books were fiction, and Elliott, as High King of Fillory didn't deal in fiction.

Because Martin and Tolkien have written some really amazing stories, but there's a lot of people who have maybe

respect for Tolkien is second to none and all modern fantasy flows from Tolkien, but there's an unspoken assumption in his books there that Return of the King.

And certain things originated out of Tolkien and inspirations.

In the book "The Hobbit," JRR Tolkien describes hobbits as not the adventuring type.

You can see how that really informed Tolkien's languages.

And to end up quoting Tolkien once again, the grand lesson of this book is that, yes, even the smallest creature can change

You know, Tolkien, and lembas bread, and all that stuff.

So for those of you who aren't familiar with JRR Tolkien's novel "The Hobbit," it stars two main characters.

As a person who was a massive fan of Tolkien-- and "The Hobbit" was one of my favorite books as a kid--

Yeah, versus a Tolkien who is in some ways the raison d'être, you know, he's like the most important of our concept as traditional world builders where he goes out of his way

And Terry Pratchett did this, Alan Furst-- Tolkien never gave up his professorship.

And I think you also talk about that in the book around Tolkien and how "Lord of the Rings," for example, how that was actually just part of a larger mythology.

You know, go back to the Tolkien movies and the great Tolkien novels.

And I was like, what do you mean Tolkien created languages?

But I was also into Tolkien.

taking a pot shot at Martin, or Tolkien, and that's not true.

Tolkien, like Morris, studied Icelandic, taught it.

The two of them are very similar, and Tolkien is really a disciple of Morris'.

The Tolkien books has really kind of fallen off, then the movies came out and everybody realized how wonderful they are again, which I'm glad because they're

When Tolkien was writing the Lord of the Rings, he had to describe the dragon.

on it called the 11 now at this time I was reading a lot of Tolkien if you know the Lord of the Rings you know there are

So I'm going to-- just like Tolkien was inspired by mythology for "Lord of the Rings,"

Going back to the ethos and the ,, going back to the things that Tolkien himself was drawing on.

Notice too, please, so keep Tolkien in mind, but also keep in mind, in the gospels, the great story of the temptation of Jesus.

got its highest proportion of GNP comes from its CGI industries that was driven by the fact that the director decided to film Tolkien in New Zealand.

It's a Tolkien crossover.

As soon as I leaned forward, I had reached for Tolkien's ring, or tasted some life-altering drug, or crossed a magical line, and there was no going back.

I read the, "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" books more than I read Tolkien.

And you know, it's partly-- and you do look back at Tolkien and Lewis and it is much clearer, the moral lines.

I understand that your character in "The Hobbit" was not in the original Tolkien.

--not in "The Lord of the Rings", but apparently she's in the Tolkien universe.

I'd never heard of somebody creating a language for fun, despite having heard of Tolkien.

And then fantasy isn't on the timeline at all, especially Tolkien fantasy.

discovered early on that unlike, say, Tolkien or some other writers, I don't particularly feel comfortable in the all seeing narrator voice and standing back and

became the Wagner, "The Ring Cycle," a huge, living body of myth that then gives us Tolkien.

I think people still don't understand how radically he changed fantasy by rewriting the epic tradition, rewriting Tolkien in the way that he

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy also, and was a big Tolkien fan.

So as I understand it, she's not in "The Hobbit," but as you probably know, there's a lot more Tolkien mythology that's not directly

They didn't have permission from JRR Tolkien's

it" Peter Jackson does those wonderful Lord of the Rings movies but that's different, that's Tolkien that's classic stuff, that's not this fantasy genre thing.

when I was over in England with Tom Dehaven, we were being interviewed by BBC and they said "How come your books are outselling Tolkien's books?"