Meditations on Middle-Earth Quotes

“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.”
― Terry Pratchett, Meditations on Middle-Earth

“Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action into violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.”
― Karen Haber, Meditations on Middle-Earth: New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien

“My point is that Ulysses can be taught. But The Lord of the Rings can only be read.”
― Karen Haber, Meditations on Middle-Earth: New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien