"They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film."

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Source : "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 09, 2013.

Christopher Tolkien

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Action Quotes

“Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.”
“I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.”
“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.”
“When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.”
“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.”
“Every solution breeds new problems.”

Source : Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.8, Penguin
“To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.”
“Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 53, Satires, XII, line 50, 1922.

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