The Lord of the Rings

“One was that I think I I knew I could do more, you know, because I had done more before, but part of it was the feeling of being exhausted running at that pace and always having the eye of Sauron like roving the land looking for people, right?”

“Um, so up until I would say IC6, um, I never felt the eye of Sauron. Like I I was never at any point in my career feeling like, oh, if I just fall a little below right now, maybe they're going to can me, right?”

“and lord of the rings i've learned about new things they destroyed all the time the lord of the rings was amazon can i explain myself lord of the rings had a lot of rainbows it was weird”

“And this is exactly what you think of as something from like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones or whatever. Yeah, it's like a dragon.”

“well because the simple answer wouldn't make an interesting story like this is why uh you know frodo doesn't take the eagles to mount doom right like it's like you kind of need to go through all of lord of rings to to to for it become a masterpiece”

“So there's a good like there's a lot of the rings analogy I like which is like everyone wants the one ring because they think they're going to destroy it and then they get enticed by it once they have it.”

“Jairer Tolkien who writes "The Lord of the Rings" and is like, fucking has to fight in World War I.”

“You see the same thing in the figure of Voldemort, say in Harry Potter or the figure of Sauron in the Lord of the Rings.”

“Oh, there's the Lord of the Rings. Coming to a bookstore is like, "Oh, my friends. There's the Lord of the Rings. There's Stephen King."”

“Me and my sister, my parents would read to us. They read us Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Jane Goodall books.”

“I don't know who's whispering in this guy's ear, like freaking Grima Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings, but they're telling you wrong stuff, bro.”

“Tolken, of course, the author of the Lord of the Rings, was actually offended.”

“So, they've gone underground like Gollum in Lord of the Rings, you know, all all just nasty and disheveled.”

“Also because Carl Urban, my co- actor had casual learned uh how to do like sword fights in the Lord of the Rings. So he was amazing at it.”

“Aragorn. You know the fictional character from Lord of the Rings.”

“I think with like the Epstein stuff, Trump wants to wield the one ring. I I I Trump gets in and he's like, 'No, no, the Epstein stuff.'”

“I remember my dad reading Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit to me and and my mom as well and that sense of sort of fantasy and and imagination awakened”

“Well, what happens is the investors who come later try to like um what's the character in Lord of the Rings? Worm ear. Um worm tongue. Worm tongue.”

“u know like Worm Tongue from Lord of the Rings where he would just sort of like whisper these”

“You can't Lord of the Rings and not get my nerd back up.”

“He compared it to the Lord of the Rings book.”

“No, nobody wants to throw the one ring into the the fires of Mount Doom.”

“And Tolken was not writing about nuclear power actually in Lord of the Rings. He he found it irritating when people said so. So we want to bust that myth on his half on his behalf postumously.”

“it I mean completely engulfed like a Lord of the Rings movie where you're waiting for Sauron to come riding on an evil horse over the top of it”

“So Stories and scientific hypotheses aren't the same thing The Lord of the Rings is not a scientific hypothesis but that doesn't mean it's not true”

“There you go; you could journal the Lord of the Rings into ChatGPT and you too could be a novelist.”

“but that the the uh like the Lord of the Rings you know what was it the way is shut like the way is not shut like it's not we're you know they're going through the mountain the way is not shut for her through the former blue wall states of Michigan Pennsylvania Wisconsin”

“because you're like oh he's pretty scary you and and I always consider myself the white wizard you know I mean it's kind of kind of Lord of the Rings references”

“Also, weed makes me see the world in a really quirky way, and it's kind of like being immersed into like a Lord of the Rings universe where I'm like, "Whoa, everything's kind of tripped out."”

“I Lord of the Rings type of [ __ ] too. Like how's Froto going to make it?”

“Like for some for some reference I think Lord of the Rings trilogy off the top of that has about 400,000 words total. Something somewhere in that ballpark.”

“if you Star Wars is a classic hero's journey but the Lord in the Rings is a classic hero's journey there a a lot of our favorite books and whatnot”

“Peter Teal and Vance, all of these guys, pretty much every time they create a company, it's named after something in the Lord of the Rings. be so unhappy with this [laughter] cuz Tolken was also a Catholic monarchist but in a very different way.”

“You know, I I think that these guys delved too deep and too greedily if we're going to continue the Lord of the Rings references, which by God, they're not going to let us stop doing.”

“Like you need literacy before you can have "Lord of the Rings."”

“or that Rachel matal yammering about the Lord of the Rings like this narrative from the left forever”

“I think where we're at now though is Jill Biden being like you know she's like Worm tongue from Lord of the Rings”

“and dune in our references um but the the critical thing here as Jason pointed out is that this could be in pill form”

“we're very bad at teaching people that we we portray it in our movies always in action adventure stories always a landscape of Good and Evil a mythological Quest the Lord of the Rings The Hobbit the Marvel Universe”

“my undergraduate was at a stem school so this was like one of the Holy texts alongside Lord of the Rings and The Star Wars movies”

“if that was big and storming into a village in Mongolia a thousand years ago in some crazy movie you'd be like oh my God you know some Lord of the Rings type movie”

“then Lord of the Rings The Little Prince and the Hobbit”

“we talked about the one ring from you know The Hobbit and precious Lord of the Rings right like that is what it felt like”

“One ring to bind them all like Lord of the Rings. They thought it would aggrandize national power, but what it did was put a limit to national power.”

“you know the old uh like Lord of the Rings he said you're not”

“it's like a trailer of a movie it's not intended to give you the full experience of the movie but boy it's so exciting you'll probably want to go see Lord of the Rings”

“I do see Washington DC sort of like Lord of the Rings and power that political parties wield against each other is that ring that all the parties refuse to throw away”

“Just like when you might watch a movie, you might be in the mood for "Lord of the Rings" one day and then you want some other, I don't know, competitive show or game show or something like that.”

“It's a world that you escaped to in the way, like your favorite book like Lord of the Rings, you, it was just some, it was unlike anything else.”

“for example the original Lord of the Rings is like the trilogy plus the next two books was like a total of 750 000 words 750k a fan has written uh like a fan fiction version of Lord of the Rings like the extension and it's over five million words”

“you don't get Lord of the Rings this year you get it next year”

“or like like in Lord of the Rings like Middle Earth is just a planet and there are things that like you know the characters aren't necessarily pointing at going oh yeah yeah there's such things as hobbits”

“JRO Tolken wrote about hobbits afterwards. That [ __ ] wrote about hobbits. He was just like, "What if there's these cute little Irish kids and all they do is, you know, smoke weed and find rings of power?"”

“He would hate the show for a thousand other reasons. A thousand reasons you would never understand in your entire life. If you read every one of his books, some of them would be like, "Well, I don't What are you going on about, Jo?"”

“it's thousands of years before the hobbit or the lord of the rings stories”

“i hit the point where i was like death in lord of the rings when i'm like abandon your posts flee flee for your lives like i'm so over everything”

“and then it's like that ring on the lord of the rings where is my precious and then we come back for it right that's exactly what the ufc belt is it's that lord of the rings it's the ring”

“if somebody was the fan of the lord of the rings they'd be like i'm building a house i'm going to put a gun you got to have tubes out of their mouth that shoot fire though”

“unless you're going to play like the last 15 minutes of Lord of the Rings Return of the King it's not going to work. But when I when I see the hobbits going with the elves that always gets me”

“and you're sitting on a throne in your version of the metaverse and I'm like [ __ ] I should have listened to you and you have like from your mouth to God's ears piles of gold like that Dragon in The Lord of the Rings smog smog that's right”

“bilbo baggins and lord of the rings when he's all like oh frodo can i see the ring”

“this is like the Lord of the Rings he seduces the queen he kills the king and he seizes the kingdom”

“and then as Stephen recalls he kills the king and takes over the Kingdom so not great PR for invisibility and a pretty solid argument in favor of Steven's invisibility is evil Theory as is H.G wells's The Invisible Man and of course J.R.R tolkien's Lord of the Rings”

“or the ants of The Lord of the Rings or the story of Richard power's recent novel The over Story... I read The Hobbit and I read Lord of the Rings and and I was fascinated with trees obviously”

“Like, if you were creating the world of "Lord of the Rings" or "Game of Thrones," right?”

“i don't me and maybe i was just watching a bunch of lord of the rings the simarillion I haven't heard it yet but i was listening to some old tolkien interview from the 60s”

“gandalf quote to frodo lamenting bad times quote So do i and so do all who live to see such times But that is not for them to decide All we have to decide is what we do with this time that has given us”

“um you know i actually saw something with uh lord of the rings actually watched a little bit of that [ __ ] ... you know i found out the other day that led zeppelin was really into uh lord of the rings i didn't realize that when they were singing about all that [ __ ] cause in the”

“man joe biden it's time to go home crack open a nice book or or i'm you know what Right There and Back Again You're gonna do You're gonna go And you're gonna sit down right there and back again by joe biden baggins”

“i could do a really good golem from lord of the rings too”

“some of the other popular books that the Bible is among include quotations from The Works of maong The Lord of the Rings and The Twilight Saga”

“I can do a really good Smeagol from Lord of the Rings”

“it's literally just fantasy it's like it's like Lord of the Rings it's just like my ELF fires an arrow and defeats your goblin”

“this too shall pass. Lord of the Rings. all we have to do just decide to do with the time we've been given”

“I have decided what this machete looks like. Billy Wayne Davis, what is it? If the orcs in the Lord of the Rings had won the war and then modernized into a a liberal democracy. Yeah. This is what all of their swords would look like.”

“like a Lord of the Rings movie Mordor dude like flakes of ash are falling from the sky like a like a light snow”

“the biggest thing my parents did right other than reading us Lord of the Rings and all the other of course Classics is that they did not get us much of anything”

“Yeah, our trees are like the two trees and the two towers of Lord of the Rings. Just like, "I remember a time long ago."”

“I mean like Lord of the Rings end of the world”

“so I mean I think just generally speaking I would rather her read and I think those are books that will lead her into probably the Lord of the Rings and other such books that I think will benefit her mind her creativity”

“and when I was taught I mean it was like Lord of the Rings type [ __ ] was crazy scary thought all the hills were on fire”

“your Star Wars guy on a Star Trek guidebook probably both love Lord of the Rings and Andrew Craven pointed this out”

“taste it in the air or the water whatever you had at the beginning of the Lord of the Rings”

“it's very Lord of the Rings esque you know it's like it's kind of like unbelievable when you see these groups of dudes that are all skinny and kind of cracked out”

“They dressed up like Gladiators from a seing the Lord of the Rings just just ogre AIDS”

“or just start Lord of the Ring swords you know that's not good enough man you think you can kill a guy with a sword”